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Movie Reviews By Bil Antoniou

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Born: March 15, 1959, Riihimaki, Finland.

1986: Born American

1987: Prison

1988: A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

1990: Die Hard 2, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

1993: Cliffhanger

1995: Cutthroat Island

1996: The Long Kiss Goodnight

1999: Deep Blue Sea

2004: Mindhunters, Exorcist: The Beginning

2006: The Covenant

2007: Cleaner

2009: 12 Rounds

2011: 5 Days of War

2013: Devil’s Pass

2014: The Legend of Hercules

2016: Skiptrace

2018: Legend of the Ancient Sword

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El Topo (1970)
Lights In The Dusk (Laitakaupungin valot) (2006)
The Souvenir
The White Crow
Reap The Wild Wind (1942)
Criminal Lovers (Les Amants Criminels) (1999)
The Bird With The Crystal Plumage (L'Uccello Dalle Piume di Cristallo) (1970)
The Ref
Dragnet Girl (Hijosen no Onna) (1933)

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BEST ACTRESS 1993: It was yet another tough year for women's roles but, as Whoopi Goldberg joked at the podium, that's because Emma Thompson and HOLLY HUNTER got them all. Actors had been nominated in both leading and supporting categories in the same year before, but 1993 was the first time that it happened to two of them at once: Thompson was cited for her magnificent turns in Merchant Ivory's other masterpiece, The Remains of the Day, and Jim Sheridan's political drama In The Name of Father, while Hunter was up for her bright few moments in The Firm and, of course, her career-reviving role as a mute Scottish woman who expresses herself solely through her musical instrument in Jane Campion's THE PIANO. Their dominance of the female acting awards didn't really cause much confusion for pundits trying to predict the winners, as no one thought Thompson would win again so soon after her triumph in Howards End the year before, while Hunter had begun her year with a prize at Cannes for Campion's film and then followed it with months of non-stop awards on the way to Oscar night. Maybe, just maybe, she'd win Supporting Actress over that year's favourite for the prize, Winona Ryder in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence, in order to make room for Angela Bassett's starmaking turn as Tina Turner in What's Love Got To Do With It to win Best Actress instead, but the chances were slim and it was far more likely that the Academy would honour Hunter's having stepped so far outside her comfort zone, while assuming that Bassett had plenty more award opportunities in the future. As it turned out, it was a highlight and exception for the both of them, particularly as Bassett, despite being a goddess, quickly entered the "district attorney" phase of Goldie Hawn in The First Wives Club's three ages for Hollywood women, and has never been nominated since, finding far more success on television in the ensuing years.

"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time." - Robin Williams, born July 21, 1951. #RobinWilliams

"Directing, in many ways, is manipulation because you're dealing with a lot of egos. You have to manipulate people into thinking it was their idea, to get them to do what you see as being the best, to edit them without their knowing they're being edited." - Norman Jewison, born July 21, 1926. #NormanJewison

"I don't care about stories. I never did. Every story is the same. We have no new stories. We're just repeating the same ones. I really don't think, when you do a movie that you have to think about the story. The film isn't the story. It's mostly picture, sound, a lot of emotions. The stories are just covering something." - Bela Tarr, born July 21, 1955.

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