Posted on June 21, 2009 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
David O. Selznick’s production of Margaret Michell’s Pulitzer Prize winner Gone With The Wind is considered by many to be the best movie ever made. Starring Vivien Leigh as Scarlett and Clarke Gable as Rhett, this sweeping drama of the Old South during the Civil War period has been entertaining generations of movie goers. The film [...]
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Posted on June 20, 2009 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman star in this Stanley Kubrick psychosexual film. Cruise plays Dr. William Harford, a New Yorker, who one night takes a fateful erotic journey, after his wife’s (Kidman’s) drug fueled confession of wanting to fuck as many strange men as possible. Cruise leaves his home for the streets of New York and enters a [...]
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Posted on June 17, 2009 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
This 1993 movie stars Jeff Bridges, Isabella Rossellini and Rosie Perez. San Francisco architect Max Klein (Jeff Bridges) survives a plane crash. Carla (Rosie Perez) also survives the crash but blames herself for the death of her infant son. Laura (Isabella Rossellini) no longer recognizes Max, her husband, as the man she married because he [...]
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Posted on May 29, 2009 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
Last night was the first time I saw On The Waterfront. I got a tape from the Carnegie Library here in Pittsburgh and the movie stands up to the hype. A young Marlon Brando stars as Terry Malloy, an uneducated dock worker and ex-professional boxer who stands up to the corrupt union leadership. The film won [...]
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Flash Movie Review: The Misfits
A few nights ago the Old Soldier watched a tape of The Misfits starring Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift. It’s a movie worth watching. It was good to see how well Marilyn could handle a serious role. Everyone did some fine acting. The Old Soldier watches old movies in order to learn how [...]
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