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  Leave Her to Heaven 1945

  ★★★½ Watched by BurtonMacReady 07 Aug 2022

  When talking about Spielberg’s 2021 WEST SIDE STORY remake, one has to point out how astonishing it is that it is an incredible film when it features a truly terrible male lead performance. I’m not sure I’d call LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN “an incredible film” but it is also a work with many merits saddled with an unbelievably bad leading man performance. Despite the high emotion of the film’s material, Wilde struggles to suggest any emotion. You do not believe…

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  Alien Resurrection 1997

  ★★★ Rewatched by BurtonMacReady 05 Aug 2022

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

  The release and hype around PREY made me feel like I should do a run through of the Predator series before then, having only seen the first film, AVP, and PREDATORS. This in turn reminded me I did not finish my run through of the Alien series I left off last year. I saw ALIEN at a young age, due to a combination of it being a favorite of my parents and brother and that ride at Disney World where…

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  The Brown Bunny 2003

  ★★★★½ Watched by BurtonMacReady 30 Jul 2022 5

  Shortly after the New Beverly July schedule was released, it became clear the trio of The Brown Bunny screenings at the end of the month were going to be must-attends. The film, hard to see in general, shows very rarely (according to the Pure Cinema Podcast, this only happened because a New Bev employee happened to run into Gallo and struck up a conversation with him), and its infamous reputation precedes itself. I attended the second night purely for scheduling…

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  Woman in the Dunes 1964

  ★★★★★ Watched by BurtonMacReady 14 Jul 2022 2

  “The sand draws moisture.”

  This had been near the top of my watchlist for some time. I was on the fence if I should go see it at the New Beverly tonight but I was listening to the Letterboxd podcast Weekend Watchlist and co-host Mia got it as her weekly watchlist pick, which inspired me to go. Thank God I waited to see it in a theatre because it is an incredibly hypnotic experience. With overwhelming visuals and sparse but…