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Forum: Movie Reviews 06-23-15
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Being JOHN MALKOVICH
Posted By RonPrice
Being JOHN MALKOVICH

Part 1:

Being John Malkovich was an American dramedy fantasy which opened in October 1999 just as I was retiring after a 50 year student and employment life, a career of 32 years as a teacher, and...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 04-21-15
Replies: 2
SUPERMAN: SOME PERSONAL REFLECTIONS
Posted By RonPrice
SUPERMAN: SOME PERSONAL REFLECTIONS

SUPERMAN: SOME PERSONAL REFLECTIONS

He Keeps Popping Into My Life

Part 1:


Man of Steel was released to the general public on 14 June 14 2013. I saw 5 minutes of the film nearly two years...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-03-15
Replies: 0
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
Posted By RonPrice
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

Part 1:

Being an impostor has a long history with literally dozens, perhaps 100s, of examples. The first one in my lifetime that came to my knowledge was The Great Impostor. It was a 1961 movie...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 03-03-15
Replies: 29
Leonard Nimoy Has Died
Posted By RonPrice
ON HEARING OF THE PASSING OF LEONARD SIMON NIMOY

ON HEARING OF THE PASSING OF LEONARD SIMON NIMOY

On hearing of the passing of Leonard Simon Nimoy(1931-2015) yesterday, I put together some of my writing about him to serve as a sort of...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 02-03-15
Replies: 17
CARY GRANT: Ideal and Indestructible
Posted By RonPrice
Re: CARY GRANT: Ideal and Indestructible

Thanks to Holden Pike and Kaplan for their humorous comments. I send you both my happy New Years greetings from Downunder now that Groundhog Day has come and gone.-Ron
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-03-15
Replies: 2
Ian Fleming and James Bond Movies: A Retrospective
Posted By RonPrice
Part 1: Belated thanks, ashdoc, for your...

Part 1:

Belated thanks, ashdoc, for your response. Back in 1953 when my family in Canada came in contact with the Baha'i Faith, 90% of the Baha'is in the world lived in Iran. Now 90% of the 5 to 8...
Forum: Movie Reviews 02-03-15
Replies: 0
Being Poirot: Some Reflections
Posted By RonPrice
Being Poirot: Some Reflections

POIROT
........not an anachronism

Part 1:

Agatha Christie's Poirot is a British television drama that aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013. David Suchet starred as the...
Forum: Movie Reviews 01-23-15
Replies: 0
Jesse Owens: A Retrospective
Posted By RonPrice
Jesse Owens: A Retrospective

JESSE OWENS and THE RACE
....little did we know

Part 1:

My mother was 32 and my father 46 when American track and field athlete, Jesse Owens, won four Olympic gold medals. This stunning...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 01-22-15
Replies: 0
ALFRED HITCHCOCK: SOME THOUGHTS
Posted By RonPrice
ALFRED HITCHCOCK: SOME THOUGHTS

Preamble:

Section 1:

I put the following pieces of prose and prose-poetry together as a single literary package after watching Hitchcock, a 2012 American biographical drama-film based on...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 01-22-15
Replies: 17
CARY GRANT: Ideal and Indestructible
Posted By RonPrice
Re: CARY GRANT: Ideal and Indestructible

Joseph Epstein is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, and one of my favorite essayists. An earlier version of this essay was published in "Celebrity Culture," the Spring 2005 issue of The...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 11-08-14
Replies: 14
RIP Mickey Rooney
Posted By RonPrice
Re: RIP Mickey Rooney

Part 1:

It's been 7 months since Rooney's passing and I think a word is apt about his legacy before we put him to bed for good, at least on this thread. I often follow actors from a personal...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 11-08-14
Replies: 2
Ian Fleming and James Bond Movies: A Retrospective
Posted By RonPrice
Ian Fleming and James Bond Movies: A Retrospective

IAN FLEMING
...with most of my sex behind me now

Part 1:

"I remember an old girlfriend of Ian Fleming's saying: ‘Ian was like one of the characters in the plays of that major 19th-century...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 10-04-14
Replies: 0
IDENTITY
Posted By RonPrice
IDENTITY

IDENTITY

Identity is always in crisis and that's a distinctive characteristic of European thought.-Julia Kristeva

Part 1:

I think there’s something about a character in movies or in books...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 09-24-14
Replies: 0
Brilliant Creatures
Posted By RonPrice
Brilliant Creatures

GETTING GOING
Part 1:

Brilliant Creatures1 explores the achievements of the following people of fame, a Gang of Four to use what has become a much used term in several aspects of popular and...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 09-24-14
Replies: 5
Woody Allen: A Documentary: Parts 1 & 2
Posted By RonPrice
Re: Woody Allen: A Documentary: Parts 1 & 2

It has been more than 8 months since I posted the opening note on this thread, and I think we can put the thread to bed forever.-Ron
Forum: Movie Reviews 09-24-14
Replies: 11
MATRIX and The Matrix Reloaded
Posted By RonPrice
Re: MATRIX and The Matrix Reloaded

By the time I came to watch some of The Matrix Revolutions in 2014, the Matrix phenomenon had already come to an end for five years. I think we can safely put the whole Matrix business to bed as the...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 09-24-14
Replies: 14
RIP Mickey Rooney
Posted By RonPrice
Re: RIP Mickey Rooney

It's been several months since I was last here and it's been more than 5 months since Rooney's passing. I found it interesting, indeed, quite sad, that Rooney signed his will several weeks prior to...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 09-24-14
Replies: 17
CARY GRANT: Ideal and Indestructible
Posted By RonPrice
Re: CARY GRANT: Ideal and Indestructible

It seems like years since I was last on this thread! Readers might enjoy this essay. It's long for site conventions, but the reading is worth it. Those without the interest just stop reading now or...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-07-14
Replies: 14
RIP Mickey Rooney
Posted By RonPrice
MICKEY ROONEY Peace at Last? Part 1: ...

MICKEY ROONEY
Peace at Last?

Part 1:

Mickey Rooney(1920-2014) was an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. He died...
Forum: Movie Reviews 04-07-14
Replies: 11
MATRIX and The Matrix Reloaded
Posted By RonPrice
THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS Part 1: By the time...

THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS
Part 1:

By the time I came to watch some of The Matrix Revolutions in 2014, the Matrix phenomenon had already come to an end for five years. This film was a 2003 American...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-07-14
Replies: 17
CARY GRANT: Ideal and Indestructible
Posted By RonPrice
Steven Seagal is an American actor, film...

Steven Seagal is an American actor, film producer, screenwriter, film director, martial artist, musician and reserve deputy sheriff of another generation. Born in 1952 he is not even in the same...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 12-30-13
Replies: 5
Woody Allen: A Documentary: Parts 1 & 2
Posted By RonPrice
I do like: "It's what you learn after you know it...

I do like: "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts" by John Wooden, mark f.-Ron Price, Australia:cool:
Forum: General Movie Discussion 12-30-13
Replies: 0
Peter James O'Toole(1932-2013)
Posted By RonPrice
Peter James O'Toole(1932-2013)

Peter James O'Toole(1932-2013) was an Irish-born, British educated, actor of fame who died last weekend. He began working in the theatre, and gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor, while I was...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 09-09-13
Replies: 5
Woody Allen: A Documentary: Parts 1 & 2
Posted By RonPrice
Woody Allen: A Documentary: Parts 1 & 2

Part 1:

In the last two weeks, on two consecutive Sunday evenings, I watched a total of 2 hours of this 3 hour doco entitled Woody Allen: A Documentary: Parts 1 & 2(1) It is Robert B Weide's...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 06-18-13
Replies: 117
Kubrick's Best?
Posted By RonPrice
Just a note to, Nausicaä and others who express...

Just a note to, Nausicaä and others who express some concern, in various ways, about my posts. I am a writer and author, poet and publisher, editor and researcher, online blogger and journalist,...

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