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- Fri Sep 04, 2015 9:01 pm
- Forum: Arthouse Legends
- Topic: Arthouse Legends - The Birth of a Nation
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Arthouse Legends - The Birth of a Nation
This is a blog post . To read the original post, please click here » In 1915, D.W. Griffith released a silent film that remains, to this day, one of the most controversial movies ever made. The Birth of a Nation, a three-hour-long epic about the Civil War and Reconstruction, revolutionized filmmaki...
- Sat Aug 29, 2015 7:07 pm
- Forum: Arthouse Legends
- Topic: Arthouse Legends - Gimme Shelter
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Arthouse Legends - Gimme Shelter
This is a blog post . To read the original post, please click here » In 1969, the wildly popular rock British rock band The Rolling Stones were concluding their American tour with a free charity concert at the Altamont Springs Raceway in California, a concert that was touted to be on par with Woodst...
- Thu Aug 20, 2015 2:30 am
- Forum: Arthouse Legends
- Topic: Arthouse Legends - The Warriors
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Arthouse Legends - The Warriors
This is a blog post . To read the original post, please click here » In 1979, director Walter Hill tackled an adaptation of Sol Yurick's novel about the Warriors, the titular gang from Coney Island forced to fight their way home from the Bronx through the turf of rival gangs. At the time of its rele...
- Fri Aug 14, 2015 7:42 pm
- Forum: Arthouse Legends
- Topic: Arthouse Legends - Witness
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Arthouse Legends - Witness
This is a blog post . To read the original post, please click here » In 1985, Australian New Wave auteur Peter Weir ( The Cars That Ate Paris , Gallipoli ) came to America to make his first Hollywood film. For this effort, he chose Witness , a crime drama/romance piece about a young Amish boy (Luka...
- Thu Aug 06, 2015 12:09 am
- Forum: Arthouse Legends
- Topic: Arthouse Legends - Bicycle Thieves
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Arthouse Legends - Bicycle Thieves
This is a blog post . To read the original post, please click here » Just after World War II, Italy was in the midst of great hardship. Director Vittorio De Sica, utilizing practical locations and unknown actors, created a film that captured the struggles of a man whose employment is at risk when hi...
- Thu Jul 30, 2015 8:15 pm
- Forum: Arthouse Legends
- Topic: Arthouse Legends - The Rock
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Arthouse Legends - The Rock
This is a blog post . To read the original post, please click here » We wrap up our Arthouse Summer blockbuster festival with the one director you never thought we'd touch: Michael Bay. In 1996, fresh off his unexpectedly successful feature debut Bad Boys , Bay re-teamed with Top Gun producers Don ...
- Wed Jul 08, 2015 8:22 pm
- Forum: Arthouse Legends
- Topic: Arthouse Legends - The Wizard of Oz
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Arthouse Legends - The Wizard of Oz
This is a blog post . To read the original post, please click here » The release of Gone with the Wind was enough for most to deem 1939 a great year in film, but that same year also saw the first genuine summer blockbuster, The Wizard of Oz . Based on Frank L. Baum's book series, it tells the story ...
- Thu Jul 02, 2015 2:23 am
- Forum: Arthouse Legends
- Topic: Arthouse Legends - The Terminator & Terminator 2: Judgem
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Arthouse Legends - The Terminator & Terminator 2: Judgem
This is a blog post . To read the original post, please click here » We're kicking off our Arthouse Summer with a drive-in double feature of James Cameron's Terminator Duology, 1984's The Terminator and 1991's Terminator 2: Judgement Day ! For the month of July, we're taking a look at some of the bi...
- Thu Jun 25, 2015 1:06 am
- Forum: Arthouse Legends
- Topic: Arthouse Legends - The Shawshank Redemption
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Arthouse Legends - The Shawshank Redemption
This is a blog post . To read the original post, please click here » The year 1994 was the year we learned that life is like a box of chocolates, found out what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in France and discovered what the phrase "Hakuna Matata" means. But the one thing no one saw coming...
- Thu Jun 11, 2015 2:34 am
- Forum: Arthouse Legends
- Topic: Arthouse Legends - The Producers (1967)
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Arthouse Legends - The Producers (1967)
This is a blog post . To read the original post, please click here » In 1967, comedic writer and actor Mel Brooks created one of the most bombastic films of all time about two unscrupulous Broadway producers who are out to make the worst musical of all time, simply called The Producers. The film gar...