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  The Death of Maria Malibran 1972

  Watched by James Dean Stockwell 15 May 2022

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  The House Is Black 1963

  Watched by James Dean Stockwell 15 May 2022

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  Framing Agnes 2022

  Watched by James Dean Stockwell 22 Jan 2022 2

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

  I’ll lead by saying while I was dubious of the original short, I had some reasonable expectations for this because I did admire (although still had notes on) No Ordinary Man.

  This, unfortunately, ended up feeling closer to the short except longer and with maybe more “star power” that only further obscures the rather simple thing of getting information from those transcripts and doing more contextualization of who those people were. There are moments I paused and just wanted to…

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  Imitation of Life 1959

  Rewatched by James Dean Stockwell 09 May 2022 1

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  Don’t care if apocryphal but that circulated story that Richard Pryor stabbed somebody in his barracks for laughing at this movie is exactly my energy and defensiveness of it.