Confessions of a Movie Addict

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Noirvember 2020

TOO LATE FOR TEARS (1949)

Directed by Byron Haskin

Screenplay by Roy Huggins

“You know, tiger, I didn't know they made 'em as beautiful as you are, and as smart. Or as hard.”

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Halloween 2020

THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES (1971)

Directed by Robert Fuest

Written by James Whiton and William Goldstein

“Don't cry upon God, Dr. Vesalius. He is on my side! He led me, showed me the way in my quest for vengeance.”

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Halloween 2020

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984)

Written and Directed by Wes Craven

“One, two, Freddy's coming for you. / Three, four, better lock your door. / Five, six, grab your crucifix. / Seven, eight, gonna stay up late. / Nine, ten, never sleep again.”

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THE RIVER (1984)

Directed By Mark Rydell

Screenplay By Robert Dillon and Julian Barry

Story by Robert Dillon

“Sooner or later there's gonna be too much rain, or too much drought, or too much corn... I can wait.”

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ALAN PARKER (1944 - 2020)

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OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND (1916 - 2020)

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THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1958)

Directed by Nathan Juran

Special Visual Effects Creator: Ray Harryhausen

Written by Kenneth Kolb

“The most comfortable prison is still a lonely place.”

Columbia Pictures

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Monsters, Inc. (2001)

Directed by Pete Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich

Original Story by  Pete Docter & Jill Culton & Jeff Pidgeon & Ralph Eggleston

Screenplay by Andrew Stanton and Daniel Gerson

“Twenty-three nineteen! We have a Twenty-three nineteen!”

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The Egyptian (1954)

Directed by Michael Curtiz

Screenplay by Philip Dunne and Casey Robinson

“Marked or unmarked, it's all the same. Twenty years to build a pyramid or ten minutes to scrape a hole in the sand. The dead are dead no matter where we put them. In the end, the sand conquers all. Those little grains of sand.”

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A Separation [Jodaeiye Nader az Simin] (2011

Written and Directed by Asghar Farhadi

Academy Award Winner Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Award Nominee Best Writing, Original Screenplay

“What is wrong is wrong, no matter who said it or where it's written.”

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Dementia 13 (1963)

Written and Directed by Francis (Ford) Coppola

“Castle Haloran is a bit perplexing, a very strange place really, old and musty, the kind of place you'd expect a ghost to like to wander around in.”

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The Front Page (1974)

Directed by Billy Wilder

Screenplay by Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond

Based on the Play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur

“May the wind at your back never be your own.”

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The Great Train Robbery (1979)

Written and Directed by Michael Crichton

“Now, on the matter of motive, we ask you: Why did you conceive, plan and execute this dastardly and scandalous crime?” 

“I wanted the money.”

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A Bug’s Life (1998)

Directed by John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton

Screenplay by  Andrew Stanton and Don McEnery & Bob Shaw

Original Story by  John Lasseter & Andrew Stanton & Joe Ranft

“For the colony, and for oppressed ants everywhere!”

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Lonely are the Brave (1962)

Directed by David Miller

Written by Dalton Trumbo

“I couldn't serve a year in this place, my guts get all tied up just by thinking about it.”

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The Married Woman [Une femme mariée: Suite de fragments d'un film tourné en] (1964)

Written and Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

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Ennio Morricone (1928 - 2020)