CITIZEN KANE- 1941
Running Time: 119 minutes, USA , Black and white
Citizen Kane was the astounding directorial debut of Orson Welles, made when he was just 25. It tops the AFI 100 best films list and is widely considered to be the greatest movie of all time. More than 60 years after it was first made [...]
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Movie Lists
Posted in art, entertainment, tagged 100 Best Films, Hearst, Joseph Cotten, Newspaper magnate, Orson Welles on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Post-mortem
Posted in poetry, tagged Benny Thomas, Hubris, Iraq, irony of life, Saddam, tyrants on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lost Chance ©
As President of Iraq: Saddam
It was more of what you said
Or did that made the news.
Genocide as charge was laid
‘against you: it was bad news.
Hussein! You had sense of fun.
A poet’s ear and heart you had
We now from your guards hear.
You wrote as the end was near;
Also fed the birds in the yard.
Now [...]
The Godfather- 1972
Posted in art, tagged Add new tag, Best 100 films, classic films, gangster movies, Mafia, Marlon Brando on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The superb, three-part gangster saga was the come-back movie for one of the original “Movie Brats” who had not had a hit after seven films: the Italian-American director Francis Ford Coppola, collaborated on the epic film’s screenplay with Mario Puzo who had written a best-selling novel of the same name about a Mafia dynasty (the [...]
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