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‘Daddy Long Legs’: A Movie Review

July 14, 2014 by anc49

Photo via Disclaimer: This is not a review full of spoilers. Here I will only offer my thoughts and recommend it based on certain criteria. You must watch the movie for yourself and enjoy it in all of its pure, unfiltered, brand new glory. I’m a sucker for old films, especially black-and-white ones. If it’s a musical, even better. Naturally, Daddy Long Legs from 1955 was on my running “to watch” list for a while. My mom had insisted that I watch it for […]

Categories: The Cultured Cosmopolitan • Tags: 1950s, cat on a hot tin roof, daddy long legs, film, france, fred astaire, french, gigi, his girl friday, leslie caron, manhattan, musical, new york city, nyc, old movie

‘Adore’: A Movie Review

June 13, 2014 by anc49

Photo Credit Disclaimer: This is not a review full of spoilers. Here I will only offer my thoughts and recommend it based on certain criteria. You must watch the movie for yourself and enjoy it in all of its pure, unfiltered, brand new glory. A couple months ago my friends were discussing this independent film set in Australia where two best friends fall in love with each others’ sons—naturally, my first reaction was “What?!” Despite my innate aversion, they seemed to love, […]

Categories: The Cultured Cosmopolitan • Tags: adore, australia, best friend, film, georgetown, independent, james frecheville, love, moms, mothers, movie, naomi watts, netflix, robin wright, xavier samuel

‘How to Marry a Millionaire’: A Movie Review

April 27, 2014 by anc49

Photo Credit: Blogspot Disclaimer: This is not a review full of spoilers. Here I will only offer my thoughts and recommend it based on certain criteria. You must watch the movie for yourself and enjoy it in all of its pure, unfiltered, brand new glory. Because I’m a sucker for old films (even in technicolor) and all things Marilyn Monroe, I decided to watch How to Marry a Millionaire in January (in a futile attempt to distract myself from my master detox that failed […]

Categories: The Cultured Cosmopolitan • Tags: 1950s, betty grable, film, how to marry a millionaire, lauren bacall, manhattan, marilyn monroe, marry, movie, netflix, new york, nyc, technicolor

‘Volver’: A Movie Review

April 16, 2014 by anc49

Photo via Disclaimer: This is not a review full of spoilers. Here I will only offer my thoughts and recommend it based on certain criteria. You must watch the movie for yourself and enjoy it in all of its pure, unfiltered, brand new glory. Last fall I took a class called “Hispanic Cinema” for my Spanish minor and LOVED it. The class surveyed Spanish cinema from the beginning of Franco’s dictatorship to now, all in terms of the political, social and economic trajectory […]

Categories: The Cultured Cosmopolitan • Tags: carmen maura, carne tremula, cinema, film, georgetown, hispanic, lola duenas, movie, pedro almodovar, penelope cruz, que he hecho yo para merecer esto, spain, spanish, volver, women

‘Like Crazy’: A Movie Review

January 25, 2014 by anc49

Photo Credit: Grizzly Bomb Disclaimer: This is not a review full of spoilers. Here I will only offer my thoughts and recommend it based on certain criteria. You must watch the movie for yourself and enjoy it in all of its pure, unfiltered, brand new glory. Before I saw it about two weeks ago, I had wanted to see Like Crazy for what felt like the longest time. Ever since the poignant, artistic, and intriguing trailer, the movie’s been on my running “To […]

Categories: The Cultured Cosmopolitan • Tags: 500 days of summer, anton yelchin, felicity jones, film, improvisation, jennifer lawrence, like crazy, movie, netflix, sundance, sundance film festival

‘His Girl Friday’: A Movie Review

July 24, 2013 by anc49

Photo Credit: Doctor Macro Disclaimer: This is not a review full of spoilers. Here I will only offer my thoughts and recommend it based on certain criteria. You must watch the movie for yourself and enjoy it in all of its pure, unfiltered, brand new glory. On a recent stormy New York night, I watched His Girl Friday on Netflix. As I ensconced myself in a heap of sheets and fed myself mini cannolis from Ferrara Cafe, I winnowed through the Classics section […]

Categories: The Cultured Cosmopolitan • Tags: 1940s, cannolis, cary grant, cinema, classics, ferrara cafe, film, film noir, his girl friday, manhattan, movie, netflix, new york city, nyc, ralph bellamy, rosalind russell

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