My Life As A Film

A blog about the films, actors, actresses and directors. All purely my opinions and some omissions as there are many movies I am yet to see.

Wednesday, 29 April 2015

Scenes from the Past

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Scarface (1932) Although this probably isn't even the greatest scene in the film, it's just a great example of why Howard Hawks was...
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Monday, 20 October 2014

20 Years since the death of one of the greatest...

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 It was October 1994, after years of ill health following a debilitating stroke, that Burt Lancaster died. His death came within a year of t...
Saturday, 6 September 2014

Way Down East (1920) Review

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D.W. Griffith is without doubt one of the most controversial directors in all of film history. It is, perhaps, due to the flagrantly racist ...
Thursday, 31 July 2014

Exciting Greta Garbo footage (featuring Mark A. Vieira)

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Greta Garbo has for sometime now being my favourite film star of all time; so it was extremely exciting earlier this year when the Academy o...
Sunday, 20 July 2014

A Lost Art

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This is the finest example of why the internet is good. This documentary will never be released on DVD or shown on television again. ...
Monday, 10 June 2013

Films of the Month: June

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 Greta Garbo is perhaps the greatest star in cinematic history, and probably the most symbolic of both the Hollywood studio system and it...
Friday, 10 May 2013

Films of the Month: May

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 J. J. Abrams performed a rare feat with his reboot of the Star Trek series back in 2009, by managing to make a film that appealed to both t...
Monday, 15 April 2013

Films of the Month: April

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 Set in the later part of the 19th century The Magnificent Ambersons  is probably the most controversial film of the 1940's due to the s...
Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Films of the Month: March

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 Two films based on the L. Frank Baum classic The Wizard of Oz , the first of which was the very first film attempt of adapting the book the...
Saturday, 2 February 2013

Films of the Month: February

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 Howard Hughes was undoubtedly one of the 20th century's most incredible personalities. Aside from being one of the century's most f...
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