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KPK on the CINEMA (117): The Films of November 2021
. > Love and war, heartless big business, off-kilter spiritual claptrap, a visit to the French countryside, ethics and morality, obsession, crime and racism… Life has a lot going on! (All films are rated on a 5 star basis and … Continue reading →
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Tagged absurdism, accidents, adaptations, aging, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alexander Mackendrick, Amazon, Andrzej Wajda, Antonio Banderas, artists, arts, Ashes and Diamonds, assassins, Benedict Cumberbatch, biography, Burgess Meredith, Burt Lancaster, business, Canadian cinema, choices, cinema, Cinema Verite, classics, Coda, comedy, competitiveness, corruption, couples, Cousin Jules, crime, criticism, cyberbullies, David D'Amato, David Farrier, death, Denis Villeneuve, documentaries, Dominique Benicheti, drama, Ed Begley, England, English cinema, entertainment, exploitation, fantasy, Felice Guiteaux, fetishes, film, film noir, filmmaking, forgiveness, fraud, French cinema, George Bernard Shaw, George C. Scott, Glenn Corbett, guilt, Gun Crazy, Guy Hamilton, harassment, humor, ideas, illness, inventors, investigative journalism, irony, James Shigeta, John Dall, Jules Guiteaux, Julie Christie, Kevin Keelan, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, life, Los Angeles, love, Maelström, manslaughter, Marie-Josée Croze, metaphor, Mexican cinema, morals, movies, murder, mysticism, nature, New Zealand cinema, obsession, opinion, Pain and Glory, pathos, patterns, Pedro Almodovar, Peggy Cummins, Penelope Cruz, period pieces, perversion, Petulia, plays, Polish cinema, quests, race, redemption, reviews, Richard Chamberlain, Richard Lester, Rod Serling, romance, Russ Tamblyn, sacrifice, Samuel Beckett, social satire, soldiers, Spanish cinema, spirituality, surrealism, symbolism, The Crimson Kimono, The Devil’s Disciple, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, The Holy Mountain, the seasons, Tickled, time, tradition, tragedy, TV dramas, values, Van Heflin, violence, Waiting for Godot, Walter Burke, work, World War II, Zero Mostel
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KPK on the CINEMA (112): The Films of June 2021
. No 5-star classics this month, but everything else is represented, from one-and-a-half miserable lumps to four-and-a-half dazzling stars. Enjoy ruminating with me! (All films are rated on a 5-star basis and must be over a decade old to be … Continue reading →
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Tagged 007, action, addiction, afterlife, aging, alcoholism, ambition, Andrew Scott, Angela Lansbury, Anne Hathaway, anti-Semitism, Arabian Nights, Arabic literature, art, Ben Kingsley, Ben Wheatley, Better Days, Between Two Worlds, biography, British cinema, Broadway, bullying, camp, China, Chinese cinema, Chris Evans, Christian Petzold, cinema, Colossal, comedy, competition, composers, conflict, corruption, crime, criticism, Crock of Gold, cults, Cyd Charisse, Dean Martin, death, Derek Flint, dialogue, Dinah Shore, disasters, drama, Edmund Gwenn, Eleanor Parker, enemies, entertainment, escape, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Jews, Eugene O'Neill, fame, families, fantasy, films, Frank Sinatra, Franz Liszt, Gaoko exams, genius, George Tobias, Gerard Butler, German cinema, ghosts, Gower Champion, Greenland, Greg Kinnear, Haley Bennett, Heaven, hell, higher education, history, horror, House, ideas, identity, Irish music, Israel, Italian cinema, James Bond, Jason Sudeikis, Jerome Kern, Jews, John Garfield, judgement, Judy Garland, June Allyson, justice, Ken Russell, Kevin Keelan, Kill List, Korean cinema, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lena Horne, Lisztomania, live theatre, love, loyalty, Massad, Matt Helm, migration, monsters, movies, murder, musicals, musicians, negotiation, Operation Joshua, Operation Moses, opinion, Oslo, Oslo Peace Accords, P.L.O., Palestine, Palestinian Liberation Organization, parables, patriarchy, Paul Henried, Paul Robeson, Peace Accords, performers, persecution, Pier Paolo Pasolini, postwar Italy, power, race, realism, Red Sea Diving Resort, redemption, refugees, rescue, responsibility, reviews, Richard Wagner, Ringo Starr, Roger Daltry, romance, Ruth Wilson, satire, sci-fi, science fiction, sexism, sexuality, Shane MacGowan, showtunes, spoof, spy spoofs, stardom, Stella Stevens, success, Sudan, supernatural, surrealism, Sydney Greenstreet, The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, The Emperor Jones, The Pogues, The Popes, The Silencers, thrillers, Till the Clouds Roll By, tragedy, Transit, true stories, Umberto D., Van Heflin, Van Johnson, Victor Buono, violence, Vittorio de Sica, World War II
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KPK on the CINEMA (105): The Films of November 2020
. NOVEMBER 2020… Finally finished in March 2021! Slowly working my way through the backlog, with 31 down and 42 to go! (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade … Continue reading →
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