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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Faust and Marguerite 1900
a flash of accidental documentary when one of the actors directs another to shift in her seat a little.
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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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My Darling Clementine 1946
Weirdly soothing and delightful when the film slows its plot beats down to the point where you can't remember the last one or sense the next one; difficult to think of another western with a runtime in the neighborhood of 97 minutes that so confidently takes its time and carves out room for ancillary business; yet so redolent of mystery, weighted by grief. I had an intuition that Ford wasn't really thrilled to use gunfights as a means to wrap…
