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KPK on the CINEMA (141) “The Films of November 2023”

Posted on December 2, 2023 by KPKeelan

. > There goes November. Here comes the heavy hitters of Oscarbait season. Some good stuff this month- and I suspect, some great stuff next month! Let’s get started: (All films are rated on a 5-star basis and must be … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Time For Drunken Horses, Abu Ghraib, adaptations, Adolphe Menjou, Alan J. Pakula, All the Light We Cannot See, American culture, Amy Sedaris, and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy, animation, Anthony Doerr, Aria Mia Loberti, armed conflict, artists, arts, Bahman Ghobadi, Barbara Sukowa, battle, Ben Kingsley, Ben Platt, biography, Bob Balaban, Brenda Vaccaro, Brian de Palma, British cinema, Cameron Mitchell, Catherine O'Hara, celebrity, Cheaper By the Dozen, child actors, child labor, child soldiers, cinema, circus, classics, Clifton Webb, Columbian cinema, comedies, comedy, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, conspiracies, crime, criminals, criticism, Cromwell, cults, culture, Dalíland, Dark City, Dermot Mulroney, Desperate Souls, Devi, directing, Disney, documentaries, drama, Edgar Allen Poe, Edward G. Robinson, Elemental, Elia Kazan, entertainment, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, escapes, espionage, European history, exploitation, fame, families, family, family films, fantasy, farce, fascism, filmmaking, films, France, Francis Lederer, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr., Fredric March, fundamentalism, Gala Dalí, gambling, Gloria Grahame, greed, guerillas, Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, Hinduism, historical epics, history, horror, Hugh Laurie, Hume Cronyn, hysteria, ideas, Indian cinema, injustice, Iranian cinema, Joaquin Phoenix, John Cho, John Schlesinger, Jon Voight, Josephine, Jude Law, Julianne Nicholson, Kal Penn, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lars Eidinger, Liam Neeson, Louis Hoffman, love, Man on a Tightrope, Manos, Mark Ruffalo, marriage, Melissa McCarthy, Molly Gordon, movies, Myrna Loy, Nancy Buirski, Napoleon, nature, Nazis, Neil Patrick Harris, Netflix, Nick Lieberman, obsession, occupied France, opinion, Oscar Isaacs, parents, parody, patriarchy, Paul Lukas, Paul Schrader, Paula Prentiss, persecution, personalities, Pixar, political assassinations, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, precious gems, professional gamblers, PTSD, radio, rebels, relationships, religion, resistance fighters, revenge, reviews, Richard Boone, Ridley Scott, Rob Corddry, Robert Sherwood, romance, Rose Byrne, Saint-Malo, Salvador Dalí, satire, Satyajit Ray, screenwriting, sequels, smuggling, spectacle, spies, spirituality, spoofs, Spy, superstition, survival, The Card Counter, The Conqueror Worm, The Grey, The Parallax View, Theater Camp, thrillers, Tiffany Haddish, torture, totalitarianism, tradition, true stories, TV miniseries, Tye Sheridan, Vanessa Kirby, Vincent Price, violence, war, Warren Beatty, William Daniels, witch hunts, Witchfinder General, wolves, World War II, zealotry | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (1000): “THE PAWNBROKER is Searing Drama From Yesteryear”

Posted on January 2, 2023 by KPKeelan

THE PAWNBROKER (directed by Sidney Lumet, 1964) ***** (out of 5) . > I remember watching this on broadcast television when I was just a kid, really. I’m guessing the year was 1969 or ’70, and it was among the very … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged alienation, anti-Semitism, arts, Brock Peters, cinema, concentration camps, crime, criticism, drama, entertainment, films, Holocaust, ideas, isolation, Jaime Sánchez, Juano Hernandez, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Marketa Kimbrell, movies, Nazism, opinion, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, racism, Raymond St. Jacques, reviews, Rod Steiger, Sidney Lumet, Sol Nazerman, stereotypes, survivor’s guilt, The Pawnbroker, tragedy, trauma, World War II | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (101): The Films of July 2020

Posted on July 25, 2021 by KPKeelan

. > JULY 2020! Most of us are still alive! Well that’s something… (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade or more.) (Titles in purple have been expanded for … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Ace in the Hole, Adolph Green, Aldolph Green, Alfre Woodard, Alice Pearce, alienation, Allison Janney, Ally Sheedy, American history, Ann Miller, Anne Baxter, art, Arthur Kennedy, astronomy, Atacama Desert, Atlanta, Augusto Pinochet, Barbara Stanwyck, Barbra Bel Geddes, Best Foreign Film, Betty Comden, Betty Garrett, Bill O’Reilly, Billy Wilder, biography, Blood on the Moon, Bombshell, Brian Keith, British cinema, Brock Peters, Centennial Park bombing, Charlize Theron, child abuse, Chilean cinema, Chris Cooper, Christine Lahti, Ciarán Hinds, cinema, Cinema Verite, Clint Eastwood, comedies, concentration camps, corruption, courage, crime, criticism, Cynthia Erivo, David Holzman’s Diary, David Spade, denial, dictators, documentaries, Down in the Delta, drama, dramady, dysfunction, Edward Dmytryk, Edward G. Robinson, Elio Petri, Elmer Bernstein, Ennio Morricone, Eric Rohmer, exploitation, families, fascism, fathers and sons, FBI, films, forensics, Fox News, Françoise Fabian, Frank Ferguson, Frank Sinatra, Fred Rogers, Fritz Lang, Gene Kelly, genocide, George Reeves, Geraldo Rivera, Gian Maria Volonté, Girl With the Green Eyes, Glenn Ford, Gretchen Carlson, grief, Harriet, Harriet Tubman, Having a Wild Weekend, Herbie Hancock, heroism, Holland Taylor, Holocaust, ideas, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Italian cinema, Jack Elam, Jaime Sánchez, Jane Fonda, Jay Roach, Jean Louis Trintignant, Jeanine Pirro, Jim McBride, John Boorman, John Hamm, John Lithgow, journalism, Juano Hernandez, Jules Munshin, justice, Kate McKinnon, Kathy Bates, Kathy Scruggs, Kevin Keelan, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lauren Lapkus, Laurence Harvey, Leonard Bernstein, Life During Wartime, love, Luis Buñuel, Lynn Redgrave, Malcolm McDowell, Margot Robbie, Marie-Christine Barrault, Marketa Kimbrell, Marlene Dietrich, Matthew Rhys, Maya Angelou, media, Megyn Kelly, Mel Ferrer, mercenaries, Mississippi, mocumentaries, mothers of the disappeared, movies, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, murder, musicals, My Night at Maud’s, Nazism, Netflix, New Orleans, New York, Nicole Kidman, Nostalgia For the Light, obsession, Olivia Wilde, On the Town, opinion, outlaws, Paul Reubens, Paul Walter Hauser, people, personalities, Peter Finch, policing, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, power, prostitution, PTSD, Rancho Notorious, Raymond St. Jacques, relationships, revenge, reviews, Richard Jewell, Richard Kind, Rita Tushingham, road trips, Rob Schneider, Robert Mitchum, Robert Preston, Robert Wise, rock and roll, Rod Steiger, Roger Ailes, romance, Rupert Murdoch, Russell Johnson, sailors, satire, Saul Bass, scandal, science, sexism, Shirley Henderson, Sidney Lumet, slander, slavery, spoofs, Stanley Donen, surrealism, survivor’s guilt, technology, terrorism, The Big Carnival, The Dave Clark Five, The Pawnbroker, The Phantom of Liberty, the press, the underground railroad, The Violent Men, The Wrong Missy, Todd Solondz, Tom Hanks, Tom Junod, trauma, Vera-Ellen, Walk on the Wild Side, Walter Brennan, westerns, William Frawley, workplace abuse, World War II | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (66): The Films of AUGUST 2017

Posted on June 20, 2021 by KPKeelan

. This month we got us some history, some biography, some animation, some film noir- old and new, some rock ’n’ roll, new chapters in both the Planet of the Apes series and the Jason Bourne franchise, some great finds and one … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 49th Parallel, A Coffee in Berlin, A Dame to Kill For, ACLU, action, Alicia Vikander, Amy Sedaris, Andy Serkis, art, biography, Bruce Willis, Cameraperson, Canada, Captain Fantastic, Chasing Coral, Chicken Little, Christopher Lloyd, cinema, cinematography, collage films, comedy, Cosme McMoon, criticism, culture, Danish cinema, Denmark, Dennis Haysbert, Derek Flint, Disney animation, documentaries, Don Knotts, drama, drones, Eat That Question, Errol Morris, families, film, Florence Foster Jenkins, Frank Langella, Frank Zappa, Garry Marshall, German cinema, Get Out, Gloria Grahame, Glynis Johns, horror, Hugh Grant, Humphrey Bogart, In a Lonely Place, In Like Flint, Jack Valenti, Jackie, Jackie Kennedy, James Coburn, Jan-Ole Gerster, Jason Bourne, Jessica Alba, Joel Edgerton, John Huston, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Josh Brolin, Julia Styles, Kevin Keelan, Kirsten Johnson, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Land of Mine, landmines, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, Let There Be Light, Liberties Union, love, loving, marriage, Matt Damon, Matt Reeves, Meryl Streep, Mickey Roarke, motion-capture artists, movies, music, Natalie Portman, National Bird, Nazis, Nicholas Ray, parody, Patrick Stewart, Paul Greengrass, philosophy, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Powers Boothe, propaganda, PTSD, Ray Liotta, Raymond Massey, reviews, Roasrio Dawson, Roland Møller, romance, Ruth Negga, satire, science fiction, sequels, shell shock, Simon Helberg, Sin City, Stacy Keach, Steve Zahn, terrorists, therapy, thriller, Viggo Mortensen, War For the Planet of the Apes, war on terror, Wim Wenders, wit, Woody Harrelson, World War II, Zach Branff | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

KPK on the CINEMA (141) “The Films of November 2023”

FLIX PIX (1000): “THE PAWNBROKER is Searing Drama From Yesteryear”

KPK on the CINEMA (101): The Films of July 2020

KPK on the CINEMA (66): The Films of AUGUST 2017

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