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Talk to Me 2022
Everyone loves Talk to Me, which suggests I am incorrect in finding it a bit of a chore. A chore, like all chores, that gets more difficult as it goes along. By the end of the film, I was more annoyed than terrified. The first 30 or 40 minutes are fairly well-constructed, but spending time with some hyperactive Australian teenagers was more than I could handle. I will not be convinced that this cast aren't basically Heartbreak High gone point…
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American Gigolo 1980
American Gigolo is another of Paul Schrader's "God's lonely man" films. His quartet being Taxi Driver, American Gigolo, Light Sleeper and The Walker. They are a fascinating set of films, as much for their flaws, as for their successes. They are character studies of opaque, egotistical demons, increasingly pathetic and less dangerous with age. They mirror Schrader himself, and his own career. American Gigolo is the second of quartet and the first directed by Schrader. The film is built around…
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Reds 1981
Warren Beatty's Reds has to be considered perhaps the most ambitious, frankly crazy, film released by mainstream Hollywood. It is, in 1981, a sympathetic, if critical, look at the 1917 Russian Revolution. The film focuses on the life and career of John Reed, the journalist and writer who wrote Ten Days That Shook the World. It mixes the personal and the political, spending a good deal of time looking at Reed's relationship with Louise Bryant (the amazing Diane Keaton, more…