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WolfmanOz at the Movies #67
Those who about to die salute you With the introduction of cinemascope/widescreen in 1953 starting with The Robe, cinema saw a growing popularity of Biblical/historical epics throughout the 1950s and 1960s. One of the best, and, certainly one of the most discussed was Stanley Kubrick’s 1960 film Spartacus. The film was inspired by the life…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #66
Star of stage, screen and alimony Was the epitaph suggested for himself by actor and comedian Peter Sellers. Sellers was a prodigious talent, touching on genius at times, although almost all of his best work had been completed by the mid 1960s. Born Richard Henry Sellers in 1925. He began accompanying his parents in a…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #36
Come and play with us Danny When it was released in 1980, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining did well at the box office (after the relative failure of his previous film Barry Lyndon) but it perplexed critics and reviews were generally mixed. But over time, like so many of Kubrick’s films, it has been reappraised and…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #34
Beyond the Infinite I vividly recall the day I first saw 2001: A Space Odyssey, way back in 1976. It was on a fine Saturday afternoon and the soccer team I was playing for had a bye so along with a few of my teammates we decided to go and see the film which was…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #10
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Up and until yesterday I was half way through writing my weekly post when with current events rapidly escalating I decided to change the topic. What could be more appropriate now then to take a look at Dr. Strangelove or: I How Learned To Stop…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #3
We have certainly been living in strange times at present. I’m sure that most of us would say that what we are seeing now would be in the realm of dsyoptia; something unimaginable only 5 years ago. So this weeks theme is looking at dsyoptian movies which mostly relate to an imagined state or society…