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Tropic Sprockets: We Live in Time
The film includes the time-honored ingredients of joy, mystery, resentment and acceptance, but each segment is full of meaning and a hint of the unknown. Every part of the film merges into a harmonious picture of two people, a man and a woman within love’s adventure.
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Front Row at the Movies: Young Frankenstein
“Young Frankenstein” is the perfect film to put you in the Halloween mood. Not too scary, but great spooky fun.
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Tropic Sprockets: Megalopolis
The film has vibrant imagery, but at two and a half hours it melts into a fever dream, with too much dream and not enough fever.
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Front Row at the Movies: We Live in Time
Get out your handkerchief … and a napkin. Here is a romantic drama about an upcoming chef battling with cancer and love.
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Tropic Sprockets: My Old Ass
This is a small, highly satisfying film that soars with heart and verve. It is an absolute comic hybrid of John Hughes and Billy Wilder.
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Front Row at the Movies: Saturday Night
Since that almost-didn’t-happen debut, “Saturday Night Live” has received 84 Primetime Emmy Awards, six Writers Guild of America Awards, and three Peabody Awards.
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Tropic Sprockets: The Apprentice
No matter how you see this depressive, dispassionate film, one thing is clear: The man projected within it was produced to be narcissistic, driven by power-lust and full of impulsive rage.
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Tropic Sprockets: Saturday Night
With electricity and surprise, the film’s final words “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” carry startling charge and emotion akin to the original “Rocky.”
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Front Row at the Movies: Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party
While Cameron Crowe's feature film debut was 1989's “Say Anything,” this documentary about the making of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' album “Long After Dark" was actually his first foray as a director. It aired once on MTV in 1983. Then it got “lost.” Now resurrected, the original 16mm reels have been re-mastered and re-released.
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Tropic Sprockets: The Outrun
The torments of addiction and alcoholism are minutely handled in “The Outrun." The film is more spiritually truthful than “Leaving Las Vegas” precisely because not an ounce of added drama is added to this searing yet beautiful narrative.
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