February 2012
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Film Index #164
‘Of Mice and Men’, 1939
Starring Lon Chaney, Jr., Burgess Meredith and Betty Field
Written by Eugene Solow with John Steinbeck
Directed by Lewis Milestone
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Film Index #163
’The Love Bug’, 1968
Starring Dean Jones, Michele Lee, David Tomlinson and Buddy Hackett
Written by Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi and Gordon Buford
Directed by Robert Stevenson
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Film Index #162
‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’, 1998
Starring Johnny Depp, Benicio del Toro and Tobey Maguire
Written by Terry Gilliam, Tony Grisoni, Tod Davies and Alex Cox with Hunter S. Thompson
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You think I’m crazy? Well, listen up, there’s a storm coming like...
– Curtis, ‘Take Shelter’, 2011
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Film Index #161
’Laura’, 1944
Starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb
Written by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Elizabeth Reinhardt and Vera Caspary
Directed by Otto Preminger
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Film Index #160
‘Love Actually’, 2003
Starring Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Keira Knightley and Bill Nighy
Written by Richard Curtis
Directed by Richard Curtis
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If you’re not going to kill me… I have things to do.
– Julie Hastings, ‘Darkman’, 1990
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Film Index #159
’Fate is the Hunter’, 1964
Starring Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan and Rod Taylor
Writted by Harold Medford and Ernest K. Gann
Directed by Ralph Nelson
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'The Silence of the Lambs', 1991
Anthony Hopkins described his voice for Hannibal Lecter as “a combination of Truman Capote and Katharine Hepburn.”
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Film Index #158
’Ed Wood’, 1994
Starring Johnny Depp, Martin Landau and Sarah Jessica Parker
Written by Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski and Rudolph Grey
Directed by Tim Burton
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Film Index #157
’From Here to Eternity’, 1953
Starring Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift, Donna Reed and Frank Sinatra
Written by Daniel Taradash and James Jones
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How to Win an Academy Award
“How to Win an Academy Award” by Omer M. Mozaffar in the Chicago Sun-Times
The Academy Award winners for the past thirty years have followed consistent molds, primarily in the categories of Best Actress, Best Actor, and Best Picture. It is a very simple set of templates that I will explain with excessive evidence. This is not to say that the Academy Awards are a conspiracy run by...
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I don’t sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
– Count Saknussem, ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’, 1959
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Film Index #156
‘Once Upon a Time in America’, 1984
Starring Robert De Niro, James Woods and Elizabeth McGovern
Written by Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernadi, Enrico Medioli, Franco Arcalli, Franco Ferrini, Sergio Leone and Harry Grey
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