Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur

Deciphering the Code of Cinema From the Center of Los Feliz by Peter Avellino

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

What You Cannot See Is Truth

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You can read whatever you want into a film, but the validity of what you see can always be open to question. Sitting in the theater viewing ...
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Thursday, June 5, 2008

Not To Drink Is To Call Her Ugly

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It’s been less than a year since I attended the American Cinematheque screening of Blake Edwards’ THE PARTY at the Aero in Santa Monica and...
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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Getting Away With Anything

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It’s too bad that there’s not more of a place for the likes of Stuart Gordon in theaters today. The sort of director who can deliver a lean,...
Monday, June 2, 2008

Quality Is Important In Every Profession

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As beautiful redhead Dagmar Lassander lounges in her bathtub smoking a cigarette, she silently thinks to herself, “I’m going to give up ciga...
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Saturday, May 31, 2008

A Superior Income From An Inferior Champagne

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I’d rather not get caught up in the whole debate about Mitchell Leisen and he caused the likes of Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges to want t...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

In Memory of Michael Dorsey's Agent

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It’s been less than a year since I first viewed the MICHAEL CLAYTON trailer and mentioned to someone how cool it was to see Sydney Pollack b...
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Monday, May 26, 2008

Mountain Into Molehill

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Maybe the ultimate joke of the mountain-into-molehill thing that we get over the Paramount logo at the beginning of INDIANA JONES AND THE KI...
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Sunday, May 25, 2008

A Writer In Search Of A Character

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Obviously, I’m happy to have Indiana Jones back in theaters but really, does he have to be in all of the theaters? Can't there be someth...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Illumination

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Though I had the opportunity to view the entire INDIANA JONES trilogy in a beautiful theater the other week, I bowed out before the third on...
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Mr. Peel aka Peter Avellino
Los Angeles, CA, United States
I'm a writer. I live in Los Feliz. Sometimes I go to the movies. There's more to tell, but not just now.
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