Movies, Mom & Me

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    The films in this trilogy are:
  
  
  
  
      
  
  Where Is the Friend's House?
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Babak Ahmadpour	Ahmad Ahmadpour	Ahmed Ahmadpour	Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh	Khodabaksh Defai	Teacher	Iran Outari	Mother
  Ayat Ansari	Father	Sadika Tohidi	Persian Neighbour	Biman Mouafi	Ali, Neighbour	Ali Jamali	Grandfather's Friend

  
        Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
        Release Date: 1987
  
      
  
  And Life Goes On
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Farhad Kheradmand	Director	Buba Bayour	Puya	Hossein Rezai	Hossein	Hocine Rifahi	Hocine

  
        Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
        Release Date: 1992
  
      
  
  Through the Olive Trees
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Mohamad Ali Keshavarz	Film Director	Farhad Kheradmand	Farhad	Zarifeh Shiva	Mrs. Shiva	Hossein Rezai	Hossein
  Tahereh Ladanian	Tahereh	Hocine Redai	Hocine	Zahra Nourouzi	Kouly's Daughter	Nosrat Bagheri	Achiz(as Nasret Betri)
  Azim Aziz Nia	Azim	Ostadvali Babaei	Teacher (as Astadouli Babani)	N. Boursadiki	Tahra	Khodabakhsh Defaei	Teacher (as Kheda Barech Defai)

  
        Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
        Release Date: 1994
  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the trilogy.
    All Films Directed by Abbas Kiarostami.

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  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Loretta Young	Paula Rogers	Kent Smith	John Rogers	Alexander Knox	Dr. Clifford Frazer	Tommy Rettig	David Larson

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1952
    Directed by Rudolph Maté.

Labels: §6, goflexB, women's-movie2

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    Keep in mind, this movie could be said to have "a cast of thousands". That, of course, is an exaggeration: It only has a credited/uncredited actor cast (over at IMDb) of 140, or thereabouts. It is, as well, more than a movie. It is an attempt (some say successful, some not) at an historical and contemplative presentation of the fate of the depression era Federal Theater Project production The Cradle Will Rock. At any rate, in the table below I've included actors/roles that seem to me to be important in the play, those I recognize and those who play themselves. Take a deep breath. This could take awhile.
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Hank Azaria	Marc Blitzstein	Rubén Blades	Diego Rivera	Joan Cusack	Hazel Huffman	John Cusack	Nelson Rockefeller
  Cary Elwes	John Houseman	Philip Baker Hall	Gray Mathers	Cherry Jones	Hallie Flanagan	Angus Macfadyen	Orson Welles
  Bill Murray	Tommy Crickshaw	Vanessa Redgrave	Countess Constance La Grange	Susan Sarandon	Margherita Sarfatti	Jamey Sheridan	John Adair
  John Turturro	Aldo Silvano	Emily Watson	Olive Stanton	Bob Balaban	Harry Hopkins	Jack Black	Sid
  Kyle Gass	Larry	Paul Giamatti	Carlo	Barnard Hughes	Frank Marvel	Barbara Sukowa	Sophie Silvano
  Steven Tyler	Lehman Engel	John Carpenter	Power - William Randolph Hearst	Gretchen Mol	Marion Davies	Ned Bellamy	Paul Edwards
  Lynn Cohen	Silvano - Mama	Dominic Chianese	Silvano - Papa	Gregg Edelman	Blitzstein - Dream Larry Foreman	Carrie Preston	VTA - Administrator
  Karen Lynn Gorney	Dancer (uncredited)	Tim Robbins	Voice On Film Reel (uncredited)	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Self (archive footage)	Haile Selassie	Self (in pith helmet)

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1999
    Directed by Tim Robbins.

Labels: §6, goflexA, historical4, john-turturro, paul-giamatti, period7, political5, tim-robbins

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    Considering its inavailability for decades (it was originally broadcast in 1964 and then shelved for nearly 50 years, finally being revived by TCM in 2012), I consider myself lucky to have a copy of this movie. I have never seen it, but I checked it for version information. There are, apparently, two versions making the rounds. The original features Henry Mancini's music. The second removed Mancini's music and replaced it with recordings of children singing Christmas carols. The copy I own is of the original broadcast.
    Aside from the review I've attached to the title of this post, I've linked, as well, to several reviews written about the movie, below. Each review, whether short or long, contains some interesting tidbit (or, in the case of the one linked to this post title, many tidbits) containing considerations of and facts about the production and impact of this film:
      Bureau 42 Review
      Emanuel Levy Review
      Films Graded Review
      TCM Article/Review
      Spooky Isles Review
    Most of the reviews contain a plot summary, some of which are quite detailed, so be forewarned, but, keep in mind, you already know this story, as it is a retelling of Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol.
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Percy Rodriguez	Charles	Sterling Hayden	Daniel Grudge	Ben Gazzara	Fred	Barbara Ann Teer	Ruby
  Steve Lawrence	Ghost of Christmas Past	Eva Marie Saint	WAVE Lt. Gibson	James Shigeta	Doctor	Pat Hingle	Ghost of Christmas Present
  Robert Shaw	Ghost of Christmas Future	Peter Sellers	Imperial Me	Britt Ekland	Mother	Joe Santos	Number 32

  
    It is astonishing to note that every single one of the actors listed in the table above either was or became well involved in the entertainment industry, well known, if only by face recognition, and well loved. And, of course, it was written by Rod Serling, and, by the way, look who directed it. This was not meant to be, nor was it (even though it was disappeared for quite a while), a slouch of a production.
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1964
    Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

Labels: §6, apocalyptic, Christmas, goflexA, nuclear, pat-hingle, TV3

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    This movie is about the idea-muddle within which a globally destructive nuclear war could happen.
    Established film critics seemed reluctant to review this TV movie released by HBO, maybe because it is a TV movie, so I connected the title of this post to the Cinafilm write-up, which hosts anyone who wishes to review any particular movie.
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Powers Boothe	USAF Major Cassidy	Rebecca De Mornay	USAF Captain Moreau	James Earl Jones	USAF General "Alice"	Martin Landau	U. S. President
  Darren McGavin	U. S. Sec. of Interior "Condor"	Rip Torn	Colonel Fargo	Jeffrey DeMunn	USN Admiral "Harpoon"	Peter MacNicol	USN LCDR Tom Sedgwick

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1990
    Directed by Jack Sholder.

Labels: §6, goflexA, nuclear, war3

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    Very little background information about this special. The link in the title above is to a video interview about the special that is actually longer, by about 20 minutes, than the special itself, and features, as one of the interviewees, Ben Glieb.
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up about the comedian.
    Release Date: 2022
    Directed by Scott Montoya.

Labels: §6, comedy3, goflexA

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    One actor spoken word recitation of Shakespeare quotations.
    Actor: Sir John Gielgud.
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1966
    Directed by Paul Bogart.

Labels: §6, goflexA, john-gielgud, shakespeare

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