Watched as part of the August 2018 Letterboxd Scavenger Hunt
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23. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off - watch a film set in Chicago

Comparing the very first film ever made from a Saturday Night Live sketch, 1980's The Blues Brothers, to both subsequent SNL movies and subsequent Blues Brothers projects provides a great lesson about the history of both these franchises, and the way that increasing age and money can eventually sap any creative…

Watched as part of the August 2018 Letterboxd Scavenger Hunt
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24. Finding Nemo - watch a film with a scene during the end credits that’s NOT a superhero movie

This was a movie-watching staple during my childhood years in the late-1970s American Midwest, but I haven't watched it in decades because of its justifiable reputation for cheese, the start of the "cheaply made and badly written flicks of me hanging out with my…

FILM SCHOOL DROPOUT: A 2017 year-long movie challenge
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Week 1: Pioneers of Film - Lumière Brothers, Georges Méliès and Alice Guy-Blaché

Unlike other forms of artistic output like painting, whose origins stretch all the way back to the forgotten realm of pre-history, we can put very specific dates on the beginnings of such modern artistic media as photography and filmmaking; in the former case, that's quite literally the year 1838 (the year the very…

FILM SCHOOL DROPOUT: A 2017 year-long movie challenge
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Week 12: Orson Welles

Ah, genius youth -- is there any greater curse? After a charmed early career in which he could literally do no wrong, first in live theater (where among other accolades he produced the first-ever all-black Shakespeare production on Broadway), and then radio (where his infamously realistic modern updating of War of the Worlds caused a national panic), the 24-year-old Welles then hit…