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What’s the greatest American film of all time? Can’t decide? Well then, what’s your favorite movie? Do you love the classics, or ignore anything before 1980? Comedies, courtroom dramas, casts of thousands – we have them all at Great American Things.


Goodfellas

Posted by on Mar 30, 2015 in Featured, Film | Comments Off on Goodfellas

Why, you might ask, has it taken me so long to include this obviously well-made movie among the list of Great American Films? Because...

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Sunset Boulevard

Posted by on Aug 6, 2014 in Featured, Film | Comments Off on Sunset Boulevard

The great actors always make it look so effortless. Maybe that’s why William Holden has never quite received the level of respect his...

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Amadeus

Posted by on May 12, 2014 in Featured, Film | 2 comments

You wouldn’t think the rivalry between two 19th century composers would make a movie of interest to anyone, save some highbrow...

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King Kong

Posted by on Jan 22, 2014 in Featured, Film | Comments Off on King Kong

Construction of the Empire State Building had only recently been completed when Hollywood realized how to romanticize it —...

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Finding Nemo

Posted by on Jul 22, 2013 in Film | Comments Off on Finding Nemo

Pixar has never made a bad movie. (Brave and Ratatouille are forgettable, but not bad.) And when the studio is on top of its game, no...

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Back to the Future

Posted by on Apr 18, 2013 in Featured, Film | Comments Off on Back to the Future

Rev up your DeLorean time machine, take it up to exactly 88 miles per hour, kick in the 1.21 gigawatts of plutonium power, and let’s...

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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Posted by on Feb 25, 2013 in Featured, Film | Comments Off on Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Sure, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner is something of a period piece now. Yes, we watch and shake our heads at how things used to be....

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The Princess Bride

Posted by on Jan 28, 2013 in Featured, Film | Comments Off on The Princess Bride

It’s a comedy. It’s a romance. It’s an adventure. It’s a fantasy. It’s a rocomadfa. No…a comrofanad....

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Posted by on Oct 30, 2012 in Featured, Film | Comments Off on Close Encounters of the Third Kind

The wonky title refers to a scale of alien contact developed by ufologist (wrote the bloggerologist) J. Allen Hynek. The book, published a...

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Vertigo

Posted by on Aug 27, 2012 in Featured, Film | Comments Off on Vertigo

Well, you could have knocked me over with a feather. Vertigo is now the top film of all time, deposing Citizen Kane after 50 years,...

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