Now see here, my good man. For the last half hour you've been saying goodbye and staying on. I wish you'd say 'How do you do' and go!
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Along Came Auntie 1926
These things take fucking forever when they aren't good. I checked the time when I thought it was almost over (total runtime: 23 mins 18 secs) and the thing said I'd only watched less than 7 minutes. Auteurism matters, folks.
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The Reluctant Debutante 1958
Minnelli had a pretty good 1958. Gigi won 9 Oscars, including Best Picture, and he managed to squeeze in Some Came Running, which is cited by many auteurists as his masterpiece, or, at least, one of them. Into this noise is the more weakened signal of The Reluctant Debutante.
Setting aside his many other virtues, the Minnelli name connotes elegant mise-en-scene, followed urgently by complex but clearly delineated choreography of the players, together producing expressive beauty and sophistication that called…
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Mank 2020
I'd like nothing more than to plead guilty to disliking this film for reasons of Welles loyalty - which, if you know me, I expect is something you already know runs very high for me and repels most small arms fire. No, the antagonism between Welles and Mankiewicz in Fincher's movie is, generously, greatly exaggerated by many of the early previews, the impressions gleaned from trailers, and subsequent publicity-adjacent clickbait articles. The washed-up writer on a long bid for a…
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The Matrix 1999
I have to come clean, on this viewing, got a little choked up when Neo says "No" to the bullets and they obey. Keanu Reeves is a treasure for our times, we nearly don't deserve him.
