I'm having a vacation break now. I wish you all a merry Christmas and a Happy 2013. Brand new posts will come out in mid-January. Thanks for your constant support.
Claudio Azevedo
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[The following is the final entry in my top 100 films list. Check out picks 1-20 , 21-40 , 41-60 and 61-80 .] 81. Sherlock Jr. (1924/USA/Bu... -
With The Dark Knight Rises in theaters, what better time to examine the film that, after Memento , proved to Warner Bros thatChristopher No...
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This a classic with an unforgettable song. It is important that teens learn about the classics, and they usually like experimenting with new... -
The opening scene of this movie is memorable and perfect for beginners to practice the present continuous tense. The instructions of the gam... -
This remake of The Stepford Wives is not as good as the original movie, but it has great moments like the one I used to have students practi... -
When he was 17 years old, a radicalized, anti-Shah Mohsen Makhmalbaf stabbed a police officer in order to get the man's gun. In the ensu... -
This is a funny scene with Robert de Niro in great shape. The movie wasn't such a great blockbuster because it had been advertised as a ... -
A short novel, but the way Camus writes, it'd breeze by at six times the length. His spare style nevertheless burrows deep into his cryp... -
Sherlock, Jr. 's self-awareness sets into the film instantly, the intertitles that establish each character also listing the actor's... -
This is an overwhelming movie. The visual effects are spectacular and it has a great plot. I used this scene to have students practice a gra...
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It cannot be denied that the fight choreography in Gareth Evans' The Raid: Redemption ranks among the finest ever put to film. A showca... -
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his movie has very good moments, but it could have been better. I used this scene to contrast the use of GET (followed by nouns or verbs). T... -
[Link to previous chapters here ] Let me me briefly summarize how I've gotten through Ulysses to this point. After constantly checking ...