Tag: films from 1984
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Reel 87: Semi-Autobiographical Movies
Some directors like to look to their own lives, or to their hometowns, for material for their films. And few are more prolific at it than Martin Scorsese (New York) and Barry Levinson (Baltimore). Come to think of it, we could have stayed in Baltimore and covered Levinson and John Waters. Missed opportunity, dangit. At…
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Reel 71: Accidental Spies
Don’t you hate it when you’re just out there minding your own business, doing your job and the next thing you know you’re involved with a South American crime cartel, or you’re behind the Iron Curtain? That’s what happens in this episode of the show. We find some fairly ordinary people thrown into extraordinary circumstances.…