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My Top Ten Movies for 2011–Reviewed, Not Necessarily New

Written by diana on December 28, 2011. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 3 Comments

Happy New Year–the Year of the Dragon in 2012! Most of all, I want to thank all of you for your comments and email! With 2011 coming to an end, I wanted to take a look back at the movie reviews I wrote this year. I am an unabashed cinephile– 500 films (maximum allowed) in my Netflix queue with another 88 in my Instant Queue. So, when I counted the reviews I have written this year (=26), I wanted to see what would be my top ten favorites. It wasn’t easy! This list is not ranked –only my top ten for 2011, grouped by genre. INDIES: 1) Restrepo (January 24 review)—...

“The Conspirator”–Is Anyone Listening?

Written by diana on May 23, 2011. Posted in movie reviews. 2 Comments

“The Conspirator” opens with a gripping Civil War battle scene and treats us to incredibly imaginative camera angles, shot in sepia tones to time-travel cinematically to the late 1860’s. This is a story that sits underneath a story we all know– the history-book narrative of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination by John Wilkes Booth at the Ford Theater. What few of us know is the untold story– of Mary Surratt, (played by Robin Wright), a Southern middle-aged widow who ran the boarding house where Booth and five other conspirators plotted to either kidnap (an important...

Tag: “The Conspirator”

My Top Ten Movies for 2011–Reviewed, Not Necessarily New

“The Conspirator”–Is Anyone Listening?

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