Tag: José Ferrer

• Vintage Cable Box: A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, 1982

  “Marriage, for me, is the death of hope.” A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, 1982 (Woody Allen), Orion Pictures Born a little too late to appreciate Woody Allen’s early slapstick comedy, and then the easy transformation to the more thoughtful romantic comedy for which he would become synonymous, A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy arrived on cable…

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  August 15, 2016

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  1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, comedy, Gordon Willis, José Ferrer, Julie Hagerty, Klute, Manhattan, Mary Steenburgen, Mia Farrow, sex comedy, Stardust Memories, The Godfather, Tony Roberts, Woody Allen, Zelig

• Vintage Cable Box: “To Be Or Not To Be, 1983”

  “Listen, if I don’t come back, then I forgive you for anything that happened between you and Lt. Sobinski.  But if I do come back, you’re in a lot of trouble!” To Be Or Not To Be, 1983 (Mel Brooks), 20th Century Fox The story goes that Mel Brooks sought out the widow of Ernst…

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  June 27, 2016

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  1941, 1983, Alan Johnson, Anne Bancroft, Carole Lombard, Charles Durning, comedy, concentration camp, Ernst Lubitsch, George Gaynes, George Wyner, Germans, Jack Benny, Jews, José Ferrer, Mel Brooks, musical, Nazi Germany, original movie, remake, romance, Tim Matheson, To Be Or Not To Be, war movie, Warsaw, World War II