Saturday, December 30, 2017

Movies for the Day, Sunday, December 31, 2017

Today's movies mark New Year's Eve, the birthday of Simon Wiesenthal, and the birthday of actor Anthony Hopkins.





Repeat Performance (1947) is about a woman
who murdered her husband on New Year's
Eve reliving the year.






Repeat Performance










Murderers Among Us:  The Simon
Wiesenthal Story (1989) is the story
of Holocaust survivor and Nazi
hunter Simon Wiesenthal, born
December 31, 1908.  It won an
Emmy for Writing.




Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story











The Silence of the Lambs (1991) features
a cannibalistic serial killer.  This thrilling movie won Oscars
for Best Picture, Best Actor, to Anthony Hopkins,
Best Actress, to Jodie Foster, Director, and Writing.
This movie is on the National Film Registry.  It provides
an American Film Institute Villain, Dr. Hannibal
Lecter, played by Hopkins, and an AFI Hero, Clarice
Starling, played by Foster.  Hopkins was born
December 31, 1937, and this is one of his
signature roles.



The Silence of the Lambs














































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