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KPK on the CINEMA (100): The Films of JUNE 2020

Posted on July 24, 2021 by KPKeelan

. JUNE 2020 was a busy film month! Not much else to do, if you have no sex partner and you can hardly heave the house! In this bunch, we get comedies, romances, dramas, animation, film noir, sci-fi, horror, caper … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 10cc, 8½, A Boy and His Dog, A Ship to India, Abbas Kiarostami, abuse, addiction, Adventures in Psychedelics, Akira Kurosawa, Alan King, And Life Goes On, Andy Richter, Andy Williams, animals, animation, Anthony Bourdain, ants, art, assistants, bank robbers, Barbara Bel Geddes, battle of the sexes, belief, belonging, Ben Stiller, betrayal, Bill Kreutzmann, biography, Birger Malmsten, Blake Edwards, Book of Exodus, brotherhood, Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, Bunny Lake is Missing, Burt Lancaster, Canadian films, capers, Carrie Fisher, celebrity, censorship, Cesar Romero, Chadwick Boseman, Charles Bronson, childhood, Christopher Walken, cinema, class, classics, Cold Turkey, comedies, coming of age, Communism, composers, crime, criticism, Czech cinema, Czechoslovakia, Da 5 Bloods, dada, Dan Duryea, Danny Kaye, Dash Shaw, David Cross, Deepak Chopra, Delmer Daves, Delroy Lindo, destruction, Dianne Foster, Diary of a Chambermaid, Dick Van Dyke, disaster films, documentaries, Don Johnson, Donald O’Connor, Donovon, drama, Drive a Crooked Road, drugs, Dyan Cannon, dystopia, earthquakes, Emilio D'Alessandro, emotion, environment, Ernest Borgnine, Experiment in Terror, faith, families, family secrets, fantasy, farce, fascism, fathers and sons, Federico Fellini, feminism, film history, film noir, filmmakers, filmmaking, films, folktales, Frankenstein, Fred MacMurray, Fred Willard, French cinema, friendship, Fritz Lang, Gary Cooper, Gaza, Gene Kelly, General Francisco Franco, George C. Scott, Georgina Hale, Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, God, God Went Surfing With the Devil, Guns N' Roses, Harlan Ellison, Have a Good Trip, Helen Gurley Brown, Henry Fonda, Herb Alpert, historical drama, Holger Löwenadler, hope, horror, humor, hunger, hypocrisy, ideas, identity, illness, Ingmar Bergman, injustice, insecurity, Iran, Iranian cinema, Israeli cinema, Italian cinema, Jack Elam, Jacques Tati, Jane Mansfield, Japanese cinema, jazz, jealousy, Jean Reno, Jeanne Moreau, Jesus, Jews, John Lennon, Jour de Fête, journalism, Judaism, Karl Malden, Ken Russell, Kevin Keelan, Kevin McCarthy, kidnapping, Kier Dullea, Kim Novak, Koker, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lacey Schwartz, Land Without Bread, Las Hurdes, Lauren Bacall, Laurence Olivier, L’Age D’Or, Led Zeppelin, Lee Marvin, Lee Remick, legends, Lewis Black, lies, life, Life and Nothing More, Little White Lie, Louis Armstrong, LSD, Luis Buñuel, Mahler, Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell, Martin Balsom, Mélanie Thierry, metaphor, Michael Murphy, Mickey Rooney, Miloš Forman, monsters, Moses, movies, murder, musicals, musicians, My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, Natalie Wood, Natasha, Natasha Lyonne, Natural disasters, Netflix, Nick Kroll, Nigel Davenport, Nina Paley, Noel Coward, Norman Lear, Oingo Boingo, opinion, oppression, Otto Preminger, Palestinians, parenting, peace, people, Phase IV, poverty, psychoactive substances, psychological drama, PTSD, Pushover, Quincy Jones, race, racism, Ramón Acín, Red Nichols, relationships, religion, resilience, reviews, Richard Quine, Rob Corddry, Robert Powell, romance, Rosie Perez, Ross Martin, S is For Stanley, sacrifice, Salvador Dalí, Sarah Silverman, Satchmo, satire, Saul Bass, scandals, sci-fi, science fiction, Sean Connery, Seder-Masochism, self doubt, Sex and the Single Girl, sexism, sexual politics, Sidney Lumet, sight gags, sisters, slapstick, smoking, social criticism, social justice, soldiers, Spain, Spanish cinema, Spike Lee, Stanley Kubrick, Stefanie Powers, Sting, stories, suffering, surfing, surrealism, surrealists, surveillance, suspense, Swedish cinema, symbolism, tabloids, teenage sexuality, teenagers, terrorism, The Age of Gold, The Anderson Tapes, the Bible, The Big Heat, The Burglar, the Church, The Firemen’s Ball, The Five Pennies, The Four Tops, The Hanging Tree, The Holy Land, The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail, The Pointer Sisters, The Spirit of the Beehive, the state, thriller, tobacco companies, Tony Curtis, tradition, tragedy, Tuesday Weld, Vera Cruz, Victor Erice, Vietnam War, violence, westerns, Will Forte, writer’s block, Zach Leary | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (96): The Films of February 2020

Posted on July 20, 2021 by KPKeelan

. February 2020: one day longer than usual and some heavy shit is goin’ down… (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 … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 007, absurdism, Adolphe Menjou, Aleppo, American Factory, animation, art, Bashar Al-Assad, biography, bombs, Brazil, business, camp, capitalism, Carroll Shelby, cars, Casino Royale, Charles Boyer, children, China, Christian Bale, Christmas, cinema, comedies, competition, corporations, criticism, David Niven, Daytona, Deborah Kerr, Dick Powell, doctors, documentaries, drama, economics, Enzo Ferrari, experimental film, F. Murray Abraham, family films, fantasy, fate, films, For Sama, Ford Motor Company, Ford vs Ferrari, foreign ownership, French cinema, Fuyao, General Motors, George Raft, globalization, Henry Ford II, heroism, history, horror, hospitals, How to Train Your Dragon, I Lost My Body, Ian Fleming, ideas, insanity, It Happened Tomorrow, Jacqueline Bisset, James Bond, James Pattinson, journalism, Ken Miles, Kevin Keelan, kitsch, Klaus, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Le Mans, Louis Malle, manufacturing, Matt Damon, mermaids, movies, murder, Netflix, newspapers, Ohio, opinion, origin stories, Orson Welles, Paris, Pat O'Brien, Peter Sellers, politics, psychological drama, racing, relationships, reporters, reviews, Robert Eggers, romance, sailors, Santa Claus, satire, sequels, slapstick, spies, supernatural, surrealism, Syria, The Edge of Democracy, The Front Page, The Hidden World, The Lighthouse, the press, Tracy Letts, turkeys, Ursula Andress, violence, Waad al-Kateab, war crimes, warfare, Willem Dafoe, William Holden, Woody Allen, work, workers, Zazie Dans le Metro | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (25): The Films of January 2014

Posted on May 10, 2021 by KPKeelan

. I saw 14… (almost 15*) films during the 31 days of January 2014… (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 Audrey Hepburn, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, capers, Cary Grant, Charade, cinema, Code 46, college, crime, Daniel Craig, Ennio Morricone, entertainment, Fateless, film criticism, films, George Kennedy, Henry Mancini, Hungarian cinema, Immortals, Imre Kertész, Iron Man 3, James Coburn, John Hurt, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lady in the Lake, Longford, movies, opinion, Paris is Burning, POW's, prisoners of war, reviews, romance, screwball comedies, slapstick, Stanley Donen, The Act of Killing, The Big Wedding, The Phantom of the Paradise, The Story of Louis Pasteur, thrillers, Walter Matthau, Winnie the Pooh, World War II | Leave a comment

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