Tag: the birdcage

• First Time Watch: La Cage Aux Folles (1979)

  

  Édouard Molinaro‘s La Cage aux Folles comes at an unfortunate disadvantage: I have seen Mike Nichols’ The Birdcage so many times (so, so, SO many times) that I had a hard time not picturing it as I was watching La Cage aux Folles, which was of course the source material for The Birdcage (which was…

  christiandimartino

  September 20, 2022

  First Time Watches

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• Great Movies: The Birdcage

  

  By Christian DiMartino Growing up, I watched some… let’s just say, questionable movies. Sure, I had my fair share of movies that one would expect a child to watch. Spider-Man, Batman, Shrek, The Mask, Disney movies, things of nature. Yet for every obvious choice, there were plenty that probably raised eyebrows. Wedding Crashers, A Nightmare on Elm Street, There’s Something About Mary, Scream, yada…

  christiandimartino

  July 23, 2020

  great movies

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