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Saturday Morning Cinema – Unforgiven
It’s hard to fathom a movie could contain the celluloid greatness of Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, and Morgan Freeman. But the feat was accomplished in 1992 with the release of Unforgiven, #68 on the AFI’s 100 greatest American films of all time.
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Saturday Morning Cinema – Tootsie
I didn’t trust that I’d like Tootsie, but that could be a side effect of my sentiment toward the state of disappointing new releases. However, there’s a reason Tootsie is #69 on AFI’s top 100 list. Let’s see if a trip back in time to 1980s NYC can rekindle the cinematic flame in my heart.
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Saturday Morning Cinema – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a well-known, iconic film, with a story and performances that keep the film alive and relevant since its release in 1975. The most memorable character, in name anyway, Nurse Ratched, is cast in pop culture as a diabolical villain. Watching the film, however, rocked that assumption.
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Saturday Morning Cinema – A Clockwork Orange
I will admit, I had little desire to watch A Clockwork Orange. It was the hurdle preventing me from continuing to move through the American Film Institute’s (AFI) 100 Greatest American Films of All Time. The list had me jump from a favorite, intense watch like Saving Private Ryan at number 71, to a fever…
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Saturday Morning Cinema – Saving Private Ryan
Twenty-five years after its release, Saving Private Ryan still has the power to transport viewers back to 1944 and immerse them in hell with thrilling practical effects, amazing performances, and revolutionary cinematography.
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Saturday Morning Cinema – The Shawshank Redemption
As number 72 on the AFI Top 100, Shawshank Redemption feels as though it could be higher on the list. While it is more of a modern classic (if the 90’s can still be considered ‘modern’), that should not discredit it from being higher than 72.
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Saturday Morning Cinema: Forrest Gump
I will embrace the cliché and open with the line, “Mama always said, ‘Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.’” It is one of the truest, most applicable movie lines I have heard during my lifetime. This makes sense, then, that such a line comes from a…
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Saturday Morning Cinema: All the President’s Men
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men, couldn’t put President Nixon back together again.
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Saturday Morning Cinema: Modern Times
Man creates machine. Man becomes machine. Machine takes over the world. Charlie Chaplin also made a really good movie about trying to make it in the world.
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Saturday Morning Cinema: The Wild Bunch
The “Wild West” of American history had to expire at some point. Territorial expansion and growth of government authority, coupled with advancing technology, rang the death knell for an era of lawlessness and frontierism. The Wild Bunch focuses on a point during that time where the United States was still establishing its southern and western…
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