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Amadeus 1984
meritocracy will turn your brain into this, resentful, spiteful, and focused entirely on the world as it ought to be than any imagination or desire for actually doing anything beyond malding. F. Murray Abraham killing it as Nixonian Salieri.
Probably my favorite of the 1980's best picture wins?
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In 1973, Leni Riefenstahl was in a bit of a pickle. Nearly thirty years removed from the suicide of the Fuhrer in his eagles nest bunker, she was still primarily identified as the last living remnant of the propaganda arm of the third Reich, her artistic output, all her filmography, dotted with the permanent asterisk of context for how her contributions to the field of editing and filming motion and montage was in service to a genocidal fascist regime of…
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Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure 2003
My grandfather kept vintage pornography in his toolshed (alongside a vast quantities of a pesticide that I later found out isn't DDT necessarily but has been banned in the USA since 1987 due to causing birth defects and lung cancer) and I stole some of it while I was living with him during the recession when my mom was figuring out how to keep the house after we got foreclosed on.
Anyways, i found out later that some of it…
