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Ghost Dog: Way Of The Samurai was director Jim Jarmuschs 1999 movie that he made following the poetry and companion piece that was Dead Man. Like Dead Man, Ghost Dog also has the same feeling of a lost world that seems to be trying to reflect and revel in its madness at the same time...

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Hello all, its me, the phantom reviewer, the guy that never posts, back to rant and possibly make promises he can't keep that he will do more posts. I'll certainly try.......starting........NOW! They say that the number one fear in people is public speaking, well personally my number fear is ...

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The Misfits, made in 1961 by John Huston. Starring Clark Gable, in his last role, Marilyn Monroe, in her last role, Montgomery Clift in not quite his last role but almost and also the great Eli Wallach and Thelma Ritter. A heavenly cast indeed in terms of presence. Honestly I wouldnt even kn...

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Last week I wrote about Faces, Cassavetes first crowning achievement.. This week in the 5th part of my series on Cassavetes films I get to the film which simultaneously gives me the most amount of thrill and frustration, joy and irritation, as an experience in life itself does. Husbands is...

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John Cassavetes Faces A few weeks ago I discussed how Shadows was Cassavetes first and only film to be made so far by him in an entirely independent way. Even though we got a taste in Shadows, Faces is the first film where the explosiveness of spontaneity, embarrassment, uncontrollable outbur...

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John Cassavetes: Part 3 Review By: Shaun Katz This is part of an ongoing weekly series of reviews on the films of John Cassavetes. The following two films 'Too Late Blues' and 'A Child Is Waiting' will be reviewed as one since they represent Cassavetes years as a studio director and are a fas...

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There are possibly millions of great films which been made since since the birth of cinema. We have lists like the AFIs top 100 films, Sight and Sound polls, Halliwells top 1000 films of all time and in all of them, sadly, there will always be a collection of films, no matter how great, wh...

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This week I write a review on a horror film which is more fun to watch than ten John Waters audio commentaries - John Carpenters The Thing is the film I speak of which is based on a short story by John W. Campbell, Jr. called Who goes there? which is a title you cant help but getting a...

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In 1997, Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain), a truly brilliant but hit and miss director, made a film which I can really only call a perfect movie. Im obviously talking about none other than The Ice Storm. Ang Lee has always managed, through out his career, to tu...

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John Cassavete's Shadows Please note: An introduction to the film of John Cassavetes can be found on www.jdmfilmreviews.com and will be posted on here soon. Before I go fourth in talking about Shadows, its important that I talk about the circumstances which it came out of. In 1958 Cas...

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Whatever Happened To Baby Jane Disclaimer: This post may contain spoilers In 1962 Robert Aldrich Directed what can be called, along with maybe Sunset Boulevard, the film of the year. To call Whatever Happened To Baby Jane a mammoth cinematic achievement would be only a slight understatemen...

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