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Currently ReadingRecently Read | It’s been too long since I’ve had a post in this admittedly infrequent series. So as kind of transition from the legal oddities that have been appearing each Friday, I thought it appropriate to talk about one of my favorite movies about lawyers — My Cousin Vinny. Now My Cousin Vinny may not wow a [...]            Tim September 10th, 2010 | Tags: Favorite Film Friday, Law, movies | Category: Film | One comment - (Comments are closed) |  Print This Post |  Email This PostLove stories don’t rank well on my list of preferred movies. When you get right down to it, though, one of my favorite movies — Reds — is just that, a love story, albeit one played out on an epic background. It’s the background that gets me. Written, produced and directed by its star, Warren [...] Tim March 5th, 2010 | Tags: Diane Keaton, Favorite Film Friday, history, Jack Reed, Louise Bryant, movies, Reds, Warren Beatty | Category: Film | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostFor whatever reason, I don’t recall where or when I first saw Midnight Cowboy. But I do know that from that very first time, one scene and piece of dialogue has stuck with me. “Ratso” Rizzo, played by Dustin Hoffman, and Joe Buck (Jon Voight) are crossing a street in downtown New York City against [...] Tim February 26th, 2010 | Tags: Favorite Film Friday, Midnight Cowboy, movies | Category: Film | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostThere’s a couple reasons American History X makes my favorite movies list. One is simply that it’s a compelling look at a disturbing topic — neo-Nazism among young American men. Another is that it was a major step in Edward Norton becoming one of my favorite actors. At first, you may not think this is [...] Tim January 22nd, 2010 | Tags: DVDs, Favorite Film Friday, movies | Category: Film | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostI’ll be honest. Network only recently became one of my favorite films. I saw it shortly after it was released in late 1976 but let some 30 years elapse before watching it over Thanksgiving. When I first saw it, I considered it biting commentary. Now, sadly, I consider it prescient. Perhaps best known for the [...] Tim January 8th, 2010 | Tags: Favorite Film Friday, movies, television | Category: Film | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostIt’s been too long since the last installment in this series and the celebrations this week over the fall of the Berlin Wall create a perfect opportunity to talk about Good Bye, Lenin!. While the movie is about the fall of the wall and Communism, it presents an innovative and fun take on it. The [...] Tim November 13th, 2009 | Tags: Favorite Film Friday, history, movies | Category: Film | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostI was just shy of seven years old when The Great Escape came out. I’ve watched it perhaps more times than any other movie and loved the book on which it was based almost as much. And in the course of three months this summer, it’s received some manly recognition: it not only made a [...] Tim August 14th, 2009 | Tags: Favorite Film Friday, movies | Category: Film | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostI’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve seen 2001: A Space Odyssey. I do have one huge regret about all those viewings, though. None has been in a movie theater on a big screen. I was 11 when the movie came out in 1968. I asked my parents to let me go see [...] Tim July 24th, 2009 | Tags: DVDs, Favorite Film Friday, sci-fi | Category: Film | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostMaybe it’s the fact I grew up during the Vietnam War but I’m a fan of many of the movies about it. Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in the setting of that war, is a classic. I’m not alone in that opinion. Rotten Tomatoes’ critics give American Beauty [...] Tim July 3rd, 2009 | Tags: Favorite Film Friday | Category: Film | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostI’m modifying an idea I saw on a book blog recently — revisiting favorites from your past. While that concept was favorite books, mine is going to be favorite movies. These aren’t going to be reviews of the films, just a link or two to assembled opinion on the films and my thoughts about the [...] Tim June 19th, 2009 | Tags: Favorite Film Friday, movies | Category: Film | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This Post |         The views expressed here are mine and mine alone. I do not speak for my law partners, our associates, staff and clients or my family and friends. Not only should any opinions here not be attributed to them, chances are they probably don't agree with me.  | ||
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