Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Movies for the Day, Thursday, March 30, 2017

Today's movies feature Vincent Van Gogh, a voyage into the body, and President Ronald Reagan. 



Lust for Life (1956) is a film about the life of
Vincent Van Gogh, a tormented but great Dutch
painter, who was born this date, March 30, in
1853.  It is based on the Irving Stone biography.
Van Gogh is played by Kirk Douglas who won
a Golden Globe for the role.  Anthony Quinn, as
the French painter Gauguin, famous for his
Tahiti paintings, won an Oscar for his portrayal.


Lust for Life





Today, March 30, is Doctor's Day, a
good day to watch Fantastic Voyage
(1966).  In this medical science fiction
story, a medical team and their ship are
shrunken down to microscopic size and
injected into a patient.  The movie won
Academy Awards for Art Direction/Set
Direction and Special Visual Effects.



Fantastic Voyage





The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001) is a television
movie about the day an assassination attempt
was made on President Ronald Reagan on March
30, 1981.





The Day Ronald Reagan Was Shot

















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