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Once Upon a Time in the 80s: The Neverending Story (Part 12 of 17)
The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on Mar 22, 2013
Note: This piece contains in depth story analysis. It is not recommended reading if you’ve not seen the film. Five Films We’ve taken a very broad look at the 80s. Now I want to take a closer look at five films that in their own unique way captured a different part of the 80s flavor. In my opin read more
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: Television (Part 11 of 17)
The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on Mar 15, 2013
This is a recapitulation of a paper I did in college. This is part eleven in the series to read other parts go here. As time has moved on the line between television and the movies has become blurred. In the 90s and continuing through until today no TV show is safe from becoming a feature film at so read more
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: Genremeld (Part 10 of 17)
The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on Mar 8, 2013
This is a recapitulation of a paper I did in college. This is part eight in the series to read other parts go here. Gremlins, Ghostbusters, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Creepshow, Weird Science, Time Bandits, Splash, Big, Back to the Future, The Witches of Eastwick and My Stepmother is an Alien all of t read more
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: Music Videos (Part 9 of 17)
The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on Mar 1, 2013
This is a recapitulation of a paper I did in college. This is part eight in the series to read other parts go here. The music video of all visual art forms probably had the shortest period of time where it was a true art. If you look at music video now it becomes more and more rare to find one that read more
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: The Directors (Part 8 of 17)
The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on Feb 22, 2013
This is a recapitulation of a paper I did in college. This is part eight in the series to read other parts go here. When discussing the 1980s no director stands out more prominently than does Steven Spielberg. Just looking at his repertoire of films from the decade and we can see his artistry was ev read more
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: Animation (Part 7 of 17)
The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on Feb 15, 2013
This is a recapitualtion of a paper I wrote in school. Part one can be read here. A search can retrieve subsequent parts. Since time does bring about changes and developments, I have included some notes in brackets after statements that may no longer hold true, or at least are in need of further enl read more
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: The International Scene (Part 6 of 17)
The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on Feb 8, 2013
One can never really analyze all of international film during a given decade given the enormous scope and the amount of films released worldwide in any 10-year period. Certain decades have cinematic movements within given cultures; the 1960s are perhaps the most notable with the nouvelle vague influ read more
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: Box Office Boom (Part 5 of 17)
The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on Jan 29, 2013
This is a recapitulation of a paper I wrote in film school, and had previously posted on another site. It’s being re-posted here in periodic installments. You can read parts one, two, three and four here. A very likely reason for the love-affair of the studio with the sequel is that the Blockb read more
Once Upon a Time In The 80s: Sequels (Part 4 of 17)
The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on Jan 18, 2013
“Leaves the door wide open for a sequel,” is a phrase that was not part of the cinematic vernacular even in the 1950s. It really does sound like something you’d say after watching a slasher movie. These films, of course, were very popular in the 1980s, but just because you didn’t read more
Once Upon a Time in the 80s- Special Effects (Part 3 of 17)
The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on Jan 17, 2013
Note: This is a recapitulation of a paper I wrote in film school. It will be published here in installments. This is part three you can read part one here and part two here. The 1980s were marked by the emergence of the computer into mainstream American culture. The increasing accessibility and avai read more
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: Sociopolitical Overview (Part 2 of 17) (1)
The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on Jan 8, 2013
When we think of the 90s socio-politically you can almost draw a parallel to the kind of films that were produced. With Clinton in office the stock market more than doubled it was prosperity galore and yet there was a generation (Generation X followed by Y, how original) that could care less. There read more
Once Upon a Time in the 80s- Introduction (Part 1 of 17)
The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on Jan 7, 2013
In his Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge* postulates how a critic’s faculties and tastes are influenced by his life experiences and exposure to art. I open with this statement because in writing about the 1980s a decade in which I was a child, I realize there can be a certain amount of read more
Once upon a Time
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Sep 3, 2012
On September 3, 1951, Time rather oddly asked the question "Whatever become of 'It'?" directly below a tinted photograph of Miss Ava Gardner. I would say that she's the answer, with all due apologies to Miss Bow, in spades.
This was what a movie star looked like, 61 years ago. Think of read more
Once upon a Time
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Sep 3, 2012
On September 3, 1951, Time rather oddly asked the question "Whatever become of 'It'?" directly below a tinted photograph of Miss Ava Gardner. I would say that she's the answer, with all due apologies to Miss Bow, in spades.
This was what a movie star looked like, 61 years ago. Think of read more
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Feb 28, 2012
I saw director Robert Rodriguez’s “El Mariachi” series backwards, starting with this threequel then going back to see Desperado and El Mariachi and in-between I read Rodriguez’s excellent filmmaking book Rebel Without a Crew. While Rodriguez himself has been EXTREMELY hit read more
Once Upon a Time(1944).
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on Jun 6, 2011
Once Upon a Time(1944). Cast: Cary Grant, Janet Blair, James Gleason,Ted Donaldson and William Demarest.
The story begins when Jerry Flynn, is about to lose his theater because his last three plays were flops. When he tosses Pinky a nickle, the boy shows Jerry his pet caterpillar, Curly, who d read more
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: Sociopolitical Overview (Part 2 of 17) (2)
The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on Apr 15, 2011
Photo Credit: Peter Turnley/Corbis, The epitome of hope in the 80s: The fall of the Berlin Wall When we think of the 90s sociopolitically you can almost draw a parallel to the kind of films that were produced. With Clinton in office the stock market more than doubled it was prosperity galore and yet read more
Feature: Once Upon a Time at a Muse Concert
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Oct 13, 2010
I wanted to throw in a quick note about how thrilled I was upon attending a Muse concert last night when the band, as their final encore, used the theme from Once Upon a Time in the West as a lead-in to Knights of Cydonia. The bass player busted out a harmonica and delivered a spot-on rendition lat read more