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  A Flash of Green 1984

  ★★★★½ Watched by Austin 22 May 2022

  i fell in love with how quiet, breezy, dreamlike this is while still being so full of things to say. Ed Harris' character Jimmy is an unassuming newspaper man, a good guy who makes a poor choice and ends up strung along by a major local figure. once the wheels of politics start to roll downhill he puts everything on the line to jam a stick in the spokes; protect the people he cares about, preserve what precious little natural…

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  Nocturne 1980

  Watched by Austin 19 Jul 2022

  had Andy Stott's "New Romantic" playing

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  The Secret Garden 1988

  Watched by Austin 19 Jul 2022

  had "Bros" and "Good Girl/Carrots" off Person Pitch playing

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  The Heiress 1949

  ★★★★ Watched by Austin 08 Apr 2017

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  I always enjoy when a mustache is used as a plot device to signal time passing. timestache.

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  Through a Glass Darkly 1961

  ★★★★★ Watched by Austin 15 Dec 2015

  No filmmaker makes me think so much about real shit like Ingmar Bergman. Like really real. I zoned out for a few minutes watching this thinking about my shortcomings, my place in the world, and then I had a true, honest to goodness existential moment that tingled my spine. It made me insanely uncomfortable, and then seconds later so serenely comfortable that all I could do was smile. A piece of art did that to me. This is what genius looks like.