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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 1d

THE GARDEN OF EDEN (1928)

A Lewis Milestone follow-up to his Oscar win for TWO ARABIAN KNIGHTS

Toni wants to leave the pretzel bakery and become an opera singer (as one does)

Amiable pre-code silent

Milestone isn't afraid to move the camera either. Some fun tracking shots

Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 2d

WEARY RIVER (1929)

A Frank Lloyd follow-up to his Oscar win for THE DIVINE LADY (Lloyd was Oscar-nominated for this too)

A bit creaky, kinda fun melodrama about a gangster who becomes a convict who becomes a singing star

Part silent, part talkie

Richard Barthelmess has the juice

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 2d

127 HOURS (2010)

Danny Boyle's follow-up to SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place 😛

Square in Boyle's wheelhouse

Poppy. Dreamy. Visceral. Body horrors. Technical experimentation. Humans at center

Tough watch but got me choked up

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 2d

I thought there was only one Marty Supreme

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 2d

NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA (1971)

Franklin J. Schaffner's follow-up to PATTON

3 hour Tsar epic

Doesn't burrow into the imagination like DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. Schaffner more of a literalist

Oscar-winning design and costume

Pretty on the outside. Moments of power and banal bloat on the inside

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 3d

THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY (1942)

A John Ford follow-up to his Oscar win for HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY

Stunning real life footage. Some jingoism (expected). Some comedy relief with birds (not expected)

Oscar winner for Best Documentary

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 3d

MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (1936)

A Frank Capra follow-up to IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT

Capra won the Oscar for this too

Cooper in top form as a card poet who becomes rich

A nice gateway into Capra. Idealism in the face of corruption. Good gags

A film that champions your inner freak!

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 3d

MOGAMBO (1953)

A John Ford follow-up to his Oscar win for THE QUIET MAN

Love in the brush. Animals everywhere, including Gable

Both Grace and Ava Oscar-noms

Another top notch Ford dialectical. Technicolor Africa—a dramatic space to work out primal lusts and moral thorniness

Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 3d

JUSTINE (1969)

George Cukor's follow-up to MY FAIR LADY

Based on a popular book series

Cukor brought in after a firing

I'm drawn to British-in-the-desert stories

Romance, mystery

Strong cast

Cukor is a craftsman but feels patchwork

"Your innocence constipates me" is a line I might use

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 4d

STREET ANGEL (1928)

A Frank Borzage follow-up to his Oscar win for 7TH HEAVEN

A classic Borzage "lovers who face obstacles"

Janet Gaynor wins a third of an Oscar

Love the use of shadows and fog. All the variety of lived-in sets. Church, prison, church, the streets etc

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 4d

THE CHILDREN'S HOUR (1961)

William Wyler's follow-up to BEN-HUR

From Roman epic to intimate powderkeg at an all-girls school

Gossip about a gay relationship, sadly, still feels timely

And Wyler was a vocal opponent of the blacklist. He knows the sweeping power of a whisper

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 5d

DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1941)

Victor Fleming's follow-up to GONE WITH THE WIND

Spencer Tracy has fun with the two sides—gentleman Jekyll and hideous Hyde. Ingrid Bergman is luminous

Transformation not as iconic as March. But Tracy running through the fog 🔥

Stevenson's story carries the day

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 6d

A McQueen date movie seems pretty cool

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 6d

THE SAND PEBBLES (1966)

Robert Wise's follow-up to THE SOUND OF MUSIC

America in China 1926? Or America in Vietnam 1966? Parallels are not lost

McQueen's only Oscar nom. All in the eyes. All in the choices

Filmed on location

3 hours. Gives you a lot to wrestle with

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 6d

TWO FOR THE SEESAW (1962)

Robert Wise's follow-up to WEST SIDE STORY

Basically a filmed play. Mitchum and MacLaine carry it. Not sure I cared enough about what happened 🤷‍♂️

My MVP is Ted D. McCord, whose crisp widescreen compositions earned him a cinematography Oscar nomination

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 6d

THE MISSING (2003)

Ron Howard's follow-up to his Oscar win for A BEAUTIFUL MIND

Howard goes back to a classic American genre...the western

Ethan Edwards-mode. Save daughter from trafficking

Obvious pull at heartstrings with little push back on dated tropes

Some scope and sweep

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 7d

MARY OF SCOTLAND (1936)

One of John Ford's follow-ups to his Oscar-winning THE INFORMER (Ford had 3 films come out in 1936)

Adversaries Mary and Elizabeth I

A bit simplified and overcooked in spots

Ford's best visual is Hepburn. The gaze is clear. Their affair is obvious

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 8d

MISSION TO MOSCOW (1943)

Michael Curtiz's follow-up to CASABLANCA

From one of the great WW2 movies to this blatant piece of pro-Stalin propaganda

Walter Houston always dependable. He plays a U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union

Curtiz does what he can

Strange film

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 8d

It's been a month since I lost my dad. The movies have been a good help in escaping and healing

Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 9d

End of September

Stats are in

81 movies watched this month

900 in 2025 so far

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 9d

Yess

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 9d

Let's goooo🎃

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 9d

End of September

Stats are in

81 movies watched this month

900 in 2025 so far

a man with long hair is playing a piano in a room .

ALT: a man with long hair is playing a piano in a room .

media.tenor.com

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 9d

VALMONT (1989)

Miloš Forman's follow-up to AMADEUS

He's still into this court intrigue and wig thing

Perhaps less dark than DANGEROUS LIASONS

It's a bit looser. More of a human comedy...but with deranged, damaged people wreaking havoc

A poisoned pastry with powdered sugar

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 9d

AFTER TOMORROW (1932)

A Frank Borzage follow-up to his Oscar win for BAD GIRL

Depression-era romance. Borzage excels with this kind of story—young lovers against all odds

The odds are the in-laws and the couple's own insecurities

The pre-code frankness is refreshing

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