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  The Hawk 1935

  ★★ Watched by Forrest Cardamenis 04 Jun 2022

  1950 "Ramblin'" Tommy Scott cut.

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  Pinocchio 1940

  ★★★ Rewatched by Forrest Cardamenis 05 Jun 2022

  First reel was from an acetate print with the Buena Vista brand; rest of the film on nitrate.

Popular reviews

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  Capernaum 2018

  ★ Watched by Forrest Cardamenis 05 Jan 2019 44

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

  Capernaum is for people who think that the ultimate function of cinema is to make you feel sympathy for fictional people, and that political cinema is cinema that makes you feel sympathy for people who are less fortunate than you. It observes, in a frame story, the tribulations of an approximately 12-year-old boy, Zain, who fails to prevent his parents from marrying off his younger sister, runs away, and manages to fend for himself before returning home. There, he stabs…

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  Anomalisa 2015

  ★ Watched by Forrest Cardamenis 15 Dec 2015 6

  Ideas about this film I am willing to entertain:
  1. We are supposed to think of Michael Stone as an awful human being.
  2. Everyone is poorly written on purpose, that's the point. Michael can't see anyone other than as a sketch of a human being that exists in relationship to him.

  Arguments about this film I am not willing to entertain:
  1. This film has any insight or anything of significance to say about Michael, the male psyche, masculinity…