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For reference purposes my favorite Leonard books are: Swag, Rum Punch, Cat Chaser, City Primeval, and 52 Pick-Up.
reference to another review here-none other than Orson Welles evoked Mickey Rooney's name as the greatest movie actor,also.)
Most of them are classics, but all of them are listed here at IMDb and I'd strongly advise you to see them (especially the Hitchcock movies, Solyaris, Conversation & and the Lynch movies), because Slavoj Zizek will reference them!
But this film only makes passing reference, I feel, to the fact of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
Some curious cameos are also featured here from a number of character actors that are passable considering all, though to be honest I'm still scratching my head as to why any of them would have actually made appearances in this flick in the first place; the actors I'm in reference to are: Maury Chakin, Christopher Walkin (!?), the late Michael Jeter, the late William Hickey who passed away shortly after this film wrapped and who's memory it is dedicated to in the end credits, and Vicki Lewis.
I don't know why but so many people who see films at festivals overrate them, as if the slightest gay reference in a film automatically makes it good.
I remember the moment, when they helped the injured Japanese, when I realized that "To End All Wars" was not so named as reference to the WWI slogan, but as subtle hint that the only way we, as a race, will ever outgrow war is when we all realize that we are truly killing our brothers and when we understand that the wars will cease.
But having not experienced the 70's let alone the 50's I don't have these reference points.
This was not a "kid's book" (I've seen the reference...obviously from someone who never read the books); it was a series of books about the complex relationships of a family living in 1940's Wyoming: A loving mother, father, TWO sons, and an infant daughter.
(At least 1992, A New Generation, and Dollhouse make some sort of reference to the real-house (like timepieces, mirrors, and small replicas), but this movie feels like a Halloween movie without Michael Myers.
This one is about the character of modern warfare and brings up memories of The Doors' When the Music's Over, and reference to Apocalypse Now.
"Three Strangers" has long been a favorite film of mine, with its fascinating reference to the statue of the goddess Kwan Yin, who, in Chinese legend, opens her eyes and grants a wish to three strangers on the Chinese New Year.
It is actually a reference to a series, of sorts, of Bob Clampett cartoons.
Other then the fantastic villain of Armand Assante and the very brief reference to Aztec culture this film went where it shouldn't have.
I don't understand the whining about plotholes and other negativity because this is simply a great film with a nice reference to Invasion of the Body Snatcher, with Donald Sutherland in optima forma!
All the reference to funds being used for terrorism were cursory.
Persians attempt to buy out "lesBos", a reference to the Persians attacking the Spartans.
Garrison kicks a Persian in the balls, a reference to when Leonidas kicks a Persian messenger down a hole, and ans many more.
This is the only semi-satanic reference that I remember.
That, of course, is a reference to the first of two films which they did, where Bette spoke with an accent that Meryl Streep would never envy.
Sure there wasn't any blue fairy, but for there to be a "blue ball" of positive energy is an obvious reference.
The obvious reference to the blue fairy in the form of a fallen star with blue positive energy was just another give away reference to the classic Disney take.
Even "Sesame Street" will drop a line, like a movie reference, that's clearly there to make the adults laugh.
Rather, they're more like "cameo jokes" in which the gag is getting the movie reference.
Satayajit Ray's Apu was brought up time and again, and near the end there was a direct reference to it - acknowledging Ray's hero.
The plot is strikingly similar to that of another notorious potboiler - SHE-WOLF OF London (1946) - but, at least, here the monster is seen (albeit ineffectively made-up): despite the titular reference, the script pays little to no credit to previous cinematic incarnations of the R.L. Stevenson novella - opting, instead, to indiscriminately incorporate elements of lycanthropy and vampirism which make no sense at all...but which lend the film value as a unique curio and one which, in view of its sheer audacity, it is difficult to hate (indeed, the whole misguided enterprise reminded me of the contemporaneous FRANKENSTEIN 1970 [1958])!
I think this movie must be part of a series; having seen the 'part IV' in the title here at IMDb makes some of the movie make more sense (i.e., the baby-killing reference mentioned in another post).
If only Bette Davis and Joan Crawford could be alive today and see this! Two emasculating she-wolfs battling it out - they think - because they want one man, but really, it's all about ego and oneupmanship, and with two equally established actresses such as Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn, both looking exceptionally beautiful in their mid-40s, DEATH BECOMES HER is a visual treat that throws back an unintentional but hilarious reference to the aforementioned divas who preceded them.
Yesterday I bought this used VHS in a rental without any previous reference first because I am a great fan of horror movies.
When I rented the movie "Mary Shelley's Frakenstein", I expected it to be consistent with the novel; hence, the reference to Mary Shelley in the actual title.
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