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I know where she’s leaping!

It’s not a leap year, but it’s Rom-Com season, so there’s a new movie called “Leap Year,” featuring Amy Adams, who was so charming in “Enchanted.”

The 30-second commercials for “Leap Year” that I saw on “The Colbert Report” were all I needed to know it’s a reworking of “I Know Where I’m Going!”, which features the one and only Petula Clark, when she was a child star in England.

The new movie isn’t getting very good reviews, but that isn’t the fault of the original, which is but one of the quirky, unique, and unforgettable productions of The Archers — as Michael Powell and Emerick Pressburger called their collaborations. Give this scene a try, and see what you think of the interplay between these eccentric characters and their ad hoc family.

If you found that clip at all intriguing, you should try the other samples from The Archers that I’ve posted:

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The Survivors Duet

On Ringo’s new album, “Y Not,” Paul backs him up on a song his former bandmate co-wrote with Van Dyke Parks, who shares a distinction with Timmy & Lassie’s Jon Provost — as a child actor he was once in a movie with Grace Kelly.

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