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As a little girl my grandfather once told me that Katharine Hepburn was the ideal women, classy and smart and ever since I’ve been slowly making my way through all of her movies. The African Queen has long been on my must-watch list, thanks to Hepb... 0 Published 14 days ago in
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Blow-Up is an undeniable hit with the boys, but its swinging sixties mod style gets a double thumbs up from me, too. Between snapping shots of gorgeous girls, a fashion photographer accidentally captures evidence of a murder on film. His studio is a stud... 0 Published 21 days ago in
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In a post-holiday world, potted amaryllis languish forgotten and forsaken in the corners of every grocery store floral section. If you look past the holographic foil gift wrapping, there are some serious possibilities for unexpected and gorgeous arrangem... 0 Published 41 days ago in
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Sometimes red and green flashing lights and an inflatable Santa perched on your roof are the best way to decorate for the holidays. Sometimes not. For those not times, I find myself really attracted to natural trimmings that don’t scream Christmas.... 0 Published 67 days ago in
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When the weather takes a dive this time of year, I can’t help but turn to Fargo. The dark comedy-crime film conjures the snowy Minnesota landscape in a way that makes trapper hats and diner mugs as American as apple pie. While it took some selecti... 0 Published 70 days ago in
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Casablanca is the romance to end all romances. Bergman and Bogart practically melt the screen with sadness, but for your next screening, try to focus those puppy eyes on the movie’s swoon-worthy style. Moroccan by way of the French Resistance, eac... 0 Published 77 days ago in
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Secretariat fills the spot in every horse girl’s heart for an underdog victory. The 2010 telling of the Triple Crown winner is quite a looker, scoring high not just in speed but also style. It’s impossible not to root for the amazing mix of ... 0 Published 91 days ago in
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Somehow, unbelievably, it has become the time of year when people put wreathes on their front doors. I must have left my brain back in mid-summer and instead am standing stupefied at the thought of snow on the ground. Nothing speaks to late fall like ... 0 Published 95 days ago in
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Not many movies portray a New England fall better than The Cider House Rules. Set in Maine among apple orchards, rambling old buildings, seaside towns and lobster docks, it’s obvious why we crave the 1999 adaptation of John Irving’s novel wh... 0 Published 98 days ago in
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There is something about fall in New York that always puts me in a 1970s mood. Kramer vs. Kramer hits all my favorite fall notes — minimal but warm, classic, erring on the side of masculine. It’s also the one movie that makes me weepy on command,... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Look out your window right now. With any luck, you can see leaves. With a smidge more luck, they are changing color. While October riots here on the East Coast, nothing begs to be worshiped like fall foliage. Walking anywhere takes twice as long, as you&... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Practical Magic scratches the Halloween itch you might be feeling in an unexpected way. I’ll level with you, the movie is straight up 1990s rom com cheese, so light some candles and lock your man in another room. A pair of gorgeous witch sisters l... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The Royal Tenenbaums is the film that canonized Wes Anderson as America’s most beloved auteur so far this century. His quirky art direction re-interested our generation in preppy classics, while pushing the envelope of dry humor and absurd charact... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Far from Heaven is a color-drenched look at the darker side of a 1950s idealized life. Julianne Moore’s magazine-worthy house doesn’t save her from the town’s scorn when her marriage dissolves, but we can’t stop coveting it. Brig... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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It’s Amy Merrick here, mastermind behind Design*Sponge’s Living In column. Starting this week, I will be contributing floral posts to the site every other Friday, attempting to fill the big hole in our hearts left by the beloved ladies of Stu... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Nothing in the whole world of art, music, literature, film, tv or whatever else you can think of to add to this list will make your heart swell for New York City like the first 3 minutes of Woody Allen’s Manhattan. Okay so maybe the Jay Z song did... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Belle de Jour has a lot going for it. 1967 Paris isn’t a bad start, plus legendarily stylish screen babe Catherine Deneuve, a plethora of gorgeous coats designed by Yves Saint Laurent, fancy French interiors and some eye-popping intrigue as an aff... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Finding Neverland is a part fiction, part fact biopic of J. M. Barrie, the beloved author of Peter Pan. While I’m sure most of our favorite visions of Pan come from Disney or better yet Hook, Johnny Depp’s turn in 2004 is a delightfully clas... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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It is hard to separate Liz Taylor from Cleopatra or Cleopatra from Liz Taylor; the two legends have pretty much melded into one gorgeous force to be reckoned with. Darryl Zanuck’s 1963 epic is every bit as famous for its leading lady as it is for ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Whatever your feelings about musicals now, it’s undeniable that every little girl has dreamed of living in The Sound of Music at one point or another. Most first viewings happen at such a young age that being 16 going on 17 seems an utter impossib... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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It’s hard to believe that it’s been 15 years since I first fell head over heels for Liv Tyler in Stealing Beauty. I’m not joking when I say she is the great equalizer — both girls and boys adore her; she’s so whip smart and gorge... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Leave it to Woody Allen’s newest flick, Midnight in Paris, to send me screaming for a Parisian vacation (preferably in the 1920s). Under normal circumstances, Gertrude Stein’s apartment filled with the likes of Picasso and Hemingway is off-l... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The Sheltering Sky is a slow and steady looker of a film that follows an American couple as they travel through Northern Africa in 1947. Hoping to rekindle their faltering marriage, the couple sets out for an adventure but is met with more desperation a... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The 1955 adaption of John Steinbeck’s classic novel East of Eden is worth a watch for reasons other than a young James Dean. Those reasons may be minor and insignificant when you get right down to it, but you could try and peel your eyes off him a... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Last week, I was on a first date, and when the subject of favorite movies came up, I blurted out that Troop Beverly Hills was my number one. I mean, it’s not technically true, but I was nervous and must have had it on the brain thanks to this post... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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When the weather heats up, those of us who can’t live without flowers in our house face a sticky situation- blast the AC even if we’d rather only use it for the hottest days or let our beloved flowers wilt when all we want is the windows do... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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While Benny & Joon is technically an early 1990s rom-com — a time and genre not necessarily known for quality — it packs a wallop of charm and oddball sincerity. It’s the only love story I know that rivals Harold and Maude in kooky sweetness, ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Emma is the one story that stands above all others when it comes to summertime picnic perfection. Since summer is officially in full swing, I’ve got an itch to take the party outside, and Emma shows us how exquisitely. Overflowing baskets and moun... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Floating somewhere between Amelie and Sweeney Todd lies Delicatessen, the 1991 French film by Amelie‘s acclaimed director and writer, Jean-Pierre Jeunet. A true black comedy, it tells the story of a cannibal butcher making his way through a buildin... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The Young Girls of Rochefort is a ridiculously bright and bubbly musical treat from 1967. It’s vibrant, stylish and teeters on the verge of comical. With the sunny French seaside as a backdrop, it’s easy to suppress your doubts about the dub... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Even thought it’s not technically summer yet, a few days with temps in the upper 80s along with an annual viewing of Wet Hot American Summer have me convinced otherwise. My days at camp weren’t nearly half as raucous, bawdy or hilarious- fac... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Small and plain you are not, Jane Eyre. Sweepingly melancholy and whip smart — not to mention pain-inducingly gorgeous —are more apt descriptions. The Bronte sisters can spin a dizzyingly dark love story, and this most-recent adaptation sets the bar ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Before there was Days of Heaven, there was Badlands. Both share a brilliant writer and director in Terrence Malick, and both hold me completely spellbound with their dusty views of the darker side of romance. Badlands is a soft-focus portrait of a teena... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Dangerous Liaisons is as seductive and subversive as costume dramas come. The boundaries of cruelty, blunt sexuality and betrayal are pushed to extremes while also balancing wit and humor in equal measure. Eighteenth-century Rococo France was not for th... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Loosely based on Homer’s Odyssey, O Brother, Where Art Thou? is the Coen brothers’ sepia-toned adventure through Depression-era Mississippi. The film oozes Southern charm of the Dust Bowl variety — suspenders and rocking chairs; front porche... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Heathers is the ultimate teen black comedy, full of sparkling 1980s goodness and vicious, malicious wit. Its sting is swift, its style subversive and its appeal legendary. The privileged clique of girls rule the halls of Westerburg High with an iron fir... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The first time I saw Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, my jaw was on the floor. Liz Taylor and Paul Newman absolutely smolder, smoke and burst into flame as an unhappily married couple imprisoned by circumstance at the family’s Mississippi plantation. Tennes... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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It’d be fair to say that a living in The Secret Garden has been incubating in my brain ever since I was 9. It was the first book I ever read that I absolutely couldn’t put down, devouring every word, and then, a bizarre taped from the tv ver... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is basically the best goofy teen movie there is, and after watching it, I think I’m long overdue for a — cough cough — day home from school. John Hughes is no slouch when it comes to the teen dream (hello, Sixteen Ca... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Spring has fully sprung in New York, which means we’re up to our eyeballs in cold, miserable rain. Precipitation normally leaves me in a perpetual state of drowned rat, so to class up my rainy-day routine, I’m turning to the 1952 classic mus... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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While I may normally err on the side of Annie Hall, no one is immune to the charms of Diane Keaton. Not now, not ever. Add a lecherous Jack Nicholson, a crazy-classy Hamptons beach house, a little rom-com sparkle dust and oops, look who just surprised h... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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There’s no better way to celebrate Mardi Gras (today!) than skipping straight past the shiny plastic beads and losing yourself in the Rio Carnival of 1959. Black Orpheus does that and more — it transfixes, bewitches and ensnares even the most unsu... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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That Coco Chanel is a woman worthy of a week’s worth of endless style blather goes without saying, but what’s the fun in that? I’m saying it loud and proud — Coco Before Chanel is pretty much as gorgeous a movie as they come. Duh, you ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Only a director like Whit Stillman could weave a story around something like disco and keep me entertained for a full two hours. His 1998 movie The Last Days of Disco is a sweetly sardonic look at coming of age in New York, and the almost embarrassing m... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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So even though yesterday was Valentine’s Day, are we still allowed to talk of swoony, romantic couples? No? Fine by me. Instead, let’s talk about criminal lovers. Bonnie and Clyde is the classic 1967 movie based on the real-life gun-toting c... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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It’s that time of year again — you know, loooove time. And while I think my all-time favorite Valentine’s Day came in the form of Chinese takeout circa 2003, that doesn’t mean I abstain completely. Chocolates in some weird box with a fa... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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As much as I wish I could fight it, it’s undeniably Valentine’s Day season. While I generally fall into the bah humbug category, I figure if we’re going to do it at all, we’re going to do it right. That’s where Sleepless in... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Maybe I’m biased, being a lover of both Baltimore and endless cups of coffee, but Barry Levinson’s Diner is practically perfect. A group of ambling college-aged gentleman tease, taunt and terrorize their way through Charm City in 1959, and i... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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I’m so excited and honored that Grace asked me (your ever faithful and loyal Amy M. of living in) to fill in for the ladies of Studio Choo this afternoon! As an antidote for New York’s latest snow storm, we’re going to be practicing wha... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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At this point in our relationship, it’s probably no surprise that I could sustain myself on a strict diet of nothing but period pieces. Enter Howards End, the be-all end-all of gorgeous literary adaptations. It’s so Bloomsbury, it could make... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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