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keijimuramoto
Nov 213 min read
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: The Movie
That's Entertainment! (1974) forever changed the trajectory of my life. That is not hyperbole. As a child, I shared with my older...
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keijimuramoto
Feb 163 min read
How Do You Live?
The Boy and the Heron (2023), or as it is called in Japan, How Do You Live? takes some time for the audience to understand fully what is...
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keijimuramoto
Sep 5, 20237 min read
Pretty (Amazing) in Pink
Barbie (2023) is everywhere now. With that in mind, I thought it appropriate to cover one-half of the "Barbenheimer" phenomenon (I will...
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keijimuramoto
May 31, 20235 min read
City Slickers (1991) and My 'One Thing'
As a plug for his then-upcoming movie, City Slickers (1991), star and host of the 63rd Academy Awards, Billy Crystal, rode onto (and...
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keijimuramoto
Apr 2, 20237 min read
Among the Stars
Patricio Guzmán's documentary, Nostalgia for the Light (2010), is a riveting watch from beginning to end. The seemingly contradictory...
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keijimuramoto
Jan 28, 20237 min read
Andor: A Star Wars Story - Part I
The original 1977 Star Wars' famous opening crawl begins with the following text: "It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships,...
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keijimuramoto
Nov 7, 20224 min read
As You Wish
The Princess Bride (1987) is as close to perfect as a fairy tale movie can be: sweet, charming, funny, swashbuckling, and romantic. Throw...
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keijimuramoto
Apr 11, 20228 min read
The Great Locomotive Chase: 160 Years Later
On April 12th, 1862, Union Army volunteers led by James J. Andrews commandeered a Western & Atlantic Railroad train headed by a steam...
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keijimuramoto
Oct 26, 20217 min read
#RestoreTheSnyderVerse
The road leading up to Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) has been long and fascinating. On November 17th, 2017, Warner Bros. released...
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keijimuramoto
Oct 23, 20213 min read
He Can Fly! He Can Fly! He Can Fly!
The titular character of Walt Disney's Dumbo (1941) is mute, but his mannerisms and charm expressed through the work of Disney's...
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keijimuramoto
Oct 10, 20214 min read
What Dreams Are Made Of
When I was in the fifth grade, I read a book on the history of cinema (what the title was, I have completely forgotten) with pictures of...
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keijimuramoto
Sep 29, 20213 min read
On the Road Again
Nomadland (2020) is about human decency. At the same time, this movie is a condemnation of capitalism, its failures, and the negative...
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keijimuramoto
Dec 28, 20207 min read
Hey Jude: The Case for Across the Universe (2007) in the National Film Registry
As turbulent and divided as this country is socially and politically, there is one thing which most people can agree on: how much the...
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keijimuramoto
Dec 22, 20209 min read
Was Star Wars (1977) Both a Blessing and a Curse for Hollywood Blockbusters?
In 1977, a film called Star Wars revolutionized visual storytelling in a new and fresh way: through the combination of stunning visual...
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keijimuramoto
Nov 6, 20202 min read
Samantha?
In her 2015 book Reclaiming Conversation, author Sherry Turkle claims that by continually relying on apps like Siri to perform tasks like...
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keijimuramoto
Nov 3, 20206 min read
Did Westworld (1973) Start Hollywood's Relationship with Computer-Generated Imagery?
The theme of humans trying to play God by using technology to create lifelike creatures only for said creatures to get the better of them...
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keijimuramoto
Oct 26, 20207 min read
Vertigo (1958): A Slow Burn Classic
Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) was not viewed as an instant classic upon its initial release. While there were some rave reviews like...
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keijimuramoto
Oct 19, 20202 min read
The Point of No Return
Towards the end of World War II, the Nazis drafted numerous young boys like the ones featured in Bernhard Wicki's anti-war film Die...
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keijimuramoto
Oct 12, 20202 min read
New Beginnings
In Konrad Wolf's East German film Solo Sunny (1980), Ingrid "Sunny" Sommer (played by the incredible Renate Krößner) finds herself...
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keijimuramoto
Sep 28, 20209 min read
Aftermath: The Murderers Are Among Us (1946)
Die Mörder sind unter uns (1946) (translated to English as The Murderers Are Among Us) was released a year after Germany surrendered to...
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