Posts Tagged ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’
An Appreciation – Five Easy Pieces
Whenever we talk about Five Easy Pieces (1970), the conversation almost always comes back to the infamous diner scene. Oil rigger Bobby Dupea (Jack Nicholson) tries to get a specific food order, to which the waitress sternly declines. After a heated back and forth, Bobby coolly stands…
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Film Review – Touched With Fire
Writer/director Paul Dalio’s Touched With Fire (2015) attempts to cover a lot of issues, but by doing so doesn’t say much about any of them. Is it a tale about manic depression? Is it a love story between two similar characters? Is it about the…
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An Appreciation – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One of the most famous scenes in Milos Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) also foreshadows its oncoming tragedy. The hellraiser R.P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), desperate to throw some variety into the repetitive, mundane life of a mental institution, asks head nurse Ratched…
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Top 5 – Jack Nicholson Films
Another MacGuffin Film Podcast Top 5’s segment. This time Brandi and Allen share their top 5 films starring Jack Nicholson.
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Craig is 16 years old, thin and impossibly shy. He’s pretty sure nobody understands him. He’s in love with his best friend’s girlfriend. He dreams of committing suicide. At one point in the movie Craig (played by Keir Gilchrist) sits in an art class, confined…
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