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Two items on the Netflix calendar.  They're different, but perhaps I can identify a common thread. One: the legendary production of K...

Last night for the first time I saw  The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and I can only wish I had waited longer.  How this steam in' hea...

Mr. and Mrs. Buce enjoyed a Netflix screening last night of Fellini's Amarcord -- "I Remember" in the dialect of Rimini, Fel...

We took a flutter last night on 'Margarethe von Trotta's Hannah Arendt , remembering the kerfuffle over Arendt's New Yorker r...

Entertainment planing tip: two Somali pirate movies in one month is quite enough. Back around the beginning of November we watched Tom Han...

Would it be "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer?"  Or does it go all the way back to Baby Snooks, interpreting the fears and hopes of lit...

Mr. and Mrs. Buce idled away a good-natured couple of hours the other night watching Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis .  It's an amiable p...

I did not learn my Yiddish at my mother's knee (she was Swe dish) , but I thought I had picked up the basics in my college years, and h...

My friend David  identifies a cinematic trope that seems to have eluded formal identification.  We resort to ostensive definition.  Three e...

I didn't pick up on it right away, but while we were watching The Apartment the other night, I could swear I heard something that must...

Watched the Norwegian Headhunters last night.  It's a cheerfully macabre shoot-em-up, good fun if you like that so rt of thing but I k...

Chez Buce enjoyed a screening of the 1944 Double Indemnity last night and here's the big news that you already knew: Wilder really is...

Mr.and Mrs. B. have been imbibing BBC version of John Le Carré's, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy . That would be the 1979 mini-series wi...

Il Teatro Buce enjoyed a screening last night of Ernst Lubitsch's classic Ninotchka with Greta Garbo.  It's good fun, perhaps not l...

Chez Buce enjoyed a screening of Howard Hawks' (John Wayne's) Rio Bravo the other night, probably more as a classroom exercise than ...

Exhausted from our bout with Elsa Morante , the Mr. and Mrs. Buce reading club needed a lightener. We chose Dashiell Hammetet's Maltese ...

Filmjabber has a cute list up of twist endings in movies. I admit I haven't seen most of these, but those I have seen ( Pyscho !) cer...

Roger Ebert's tribute to Gene Siskel is a model of grace and generosity. We all knew they didn't like each other, but Ebert explai...

This has to be the biggest yawn ever ( link ). Won't somebody ever vote for the original Dudley Moore and Peter Cook version of Bedazzle...

My friend Ignoto articulates a sentiment that I have long entertained but never so well expressed. The topic is movies,specifically weird,...