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FLIX PIX (1294): “The Giddy Glories of MY 20th CENTURY”

Posted on June 15, 2024 by KPKeelan

MY 20th CENTURY (directed by Ildikó Enyedi, 1989) ****+ (out of 5) . > What a total delight this offbeat Hungarian fantasy is! . Written and directed by my contemporary Ildikó Enyedi, this gorgeous fable tells the story of Lila and … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, cinema, criticism, Dorotha Segda, entertainment, fantasy, films, Flix Pix, Hungarian cinema, ideas, Ildikó Enyedi, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, magical realism, movies, My 20th Century, opinion, reviews | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (102): The Films of August 2020

Posted on July 26, 2021 by KPKeelan

. AUGUST 2020: A sombre time, but a great crop of movies! So many 4-and-a half and five-star films! Oh, the bounty, amid all the horror! Just pinch me. (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Disability Revolution, activism, Adir Miller, Africa, Ali Ungár, American Indians, Americana, Americans with Disabilities Act, Andy Devine, animation, Anne Hathaway, Anthony Mann, apartheid, Austrian cinema, beekeeping, bees, Bill Plympton, Bill Pullman, Bruno Ganz, Burt Lancaster, Camp Jened, Cannibal! The Musical, Carl Reiner, celebrity, Chris Evans, Christopher Plummer, Cinema Verite, closure, colonialism, comedies, coming of age, corporate crime, courtroom drama, Crip Camp, Criss Cross, Dan Duryea, dancing, Daniel Craig, Dark Waters, Delmer Daves, Devil’s Doorway, Dick Van Dyke, disability, documentaries, Don Johnson, Dorotha Segda, drama, dreams, Du Pont, Earl Hamner Jr., Edgar Buchanan, Edward Everett Horton, Esy Morales, family films, fantasy, Frank Oz, Fred Astaire, genocide, Ginger Rogers, Hair High, Henry Fonda, Holocaust, homesteading, Honeyland, human rights, humor, Hungarian cinema, I Married a Strange Person, Idiots & Angels, Ildikó Enyedi, Inside Daisy Clover, Israeli cinema, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jews, John Carradine, John Doucette, John Ford, John Wayne, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kenya, Knives Out, M. Emmet Walsh, Macedonia, Macedonian cinema, magical realism, Mare Winningham, Mark Ruffalo, Matt Stone, Mau-Mau, Maureen O’Hara, Michael Shannon, Michele Lee, Mickey Rooney, murder, musicals, Mutant Aliens, My 20th Century, mysteries, Natalie Wood, Nazis, noir, Out in the Dark, people, Percy Helton, Peter Simonischek, Plymptoons, poisoning, pollution, queer cinema, racism, redemption, relationships, responsibility, revenge, Revengeance, Rian Johnson, Richard Brooks, Robert Redford, Robert Siodmak, Robert Taylor, Rock Hudson, Roddy McDowall, Ruth Gordon, satire, Sidney Poitier, Sigmund Freud, Slovakian cinema, Something of Value, South Africa, Spencer’s Mountain, Stagecoach, success, surrealism, survival, Teflon, The Comic, The Interpreter, The Matchmaker, the past, The Tobacconist, The Tune, The Waltons, Tim Robbins, Todd Haynes, Toni Collette, Top Hat, trauma, Trey Parker, tribalism, violence, Wally Cox, westerns, whodunit, World War II, Yvonne De Carlo | Leave a comment

KPK on the Cinema (82): The Films of December 2018

Posted on July 6, 2021 by KPKeelan

. The Big Year-End Releases are out, and December found me in cinema-hyperdrive. Lots of fun stuff to examine this month. Prepare yourself! (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 1900, 22 July, A Perfect Day, Alfonso Cuarón, aliens, Australian cinema, authority, Bandersnatch, Benecio del Toro, Bernando Bertolucci, big business, Billy Crudup, biography, Bird Box, Blades of Glory, Bruce Springsteen, Burt Lancaster, Buster Keaton, Charleze Theron, Charlie Brooker, childhood, cinematography, Clarence Clemmons, Claude Chabrol, comedies, Communism, crime, Day of the Soldado, Dennis Hopper, Dominique Sanda, Don Shirley, Donald Sutherland, drama, Duplass brothers, Edmund O’Brien, Ennio Morricone, fascism, filmmaking, Flash of Genius, Ford Motor Company, fraud, Gérard Depardieu, Green Book, Greg Kinnear, Guy Pearce, Happy as Lazzaro, Henry Jaglom, historical epics, history, Hollywood, horror, human smuggling, ice-skating, interactive, inventors, Italian cinema, Joel Edgerton, John Heder, John Huston, Josh Brolin, justice, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Mann, magical realism, Mahershala Ali, Mark Hogancamp, mass murder, Mercedes McCambridge, Mexican cinema, Mexico, Mexico City, motherhood, music, Netflix, NGO’s, Norman Foster, Norway, Orson Welles, Patti Scialfa, Paul Greengrass, Paul Mazursky, Peter Bogdanovich, Professor Philip Zimbardo, psychology, PTSD, racism, RGB, Rip van Winkle, Robert De Niro, Robert Pattinson, Robert Zemeckis, Roma, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Sandra Bullock, satire, Sicario, silent films, Springsteen On Broadway, Sterling Hayden, Steve Carell, storytelling, survivors, Susan Strasberg, suspense, Suzanne Bier, the Balkans, The Cameraman, The Notorious RBG, The Other Side of the Wind, The Rover, The Stanford Prison Experiment, The Supreme Court, Tim Robbins, Tony Vallelonga, trauma, Tully, Viggo Mortensen, violence, war, Welcome to Marwen, Welcome to Marwencol, Will Ferrell, World War II | Leave a comment

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FLIX PIX (1294): “The Giddy Glories of MY 20th CENTURY”

KPK on the CINEMA (102): The Films of August 2020

KPK on the Cinema (82): The Films of December 2018

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