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  • Bringing Up Baby
  • Pierrot le Fou
  • Zorns Lemma
  • Satantango

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  • The Beast

    ★★★★

  • Stop Making Sense

    ★★★★★

  • Poison

  • Lost Highway

    ★★★★

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  • Woman of Tokyo

    Woman of Tokyo

    ★★★

    Features a fairly insane scene where Ozu just shows nearly the entirety of Lubitsch's top shelf section from If I Had a Million — whose poster appears in one of his earlier films, I forget which — but cuts away before it gets to its famous punchline. Possibly because this film's silent where as the punchline is a line delivered in synch sound? As a joke? Ozu's a funny guy.

  • High Pressure

    High Pressure

    ★★★½

    More fast-paced than inspired but it gets the job done as a kind of lighthearted proto-Wolf of Wall Street. George Sidney — short, stocky, easily flustered, playing someone who’s both a hustler and a schnook, and the uncle of his namesake, who went on to direct Annie Get Your Gun and Bye Bye Birdie — is fucking funny. Good Guy Kibbee shit too.

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  • Welcome to the Punch

    Welcome to the Punch

    ★★★

    Review here. Still sad there's not a part where someone says, "Welcome to the punch!", then punches that person.

  • Citizen Kane

    Citizen Kane

    ★★★★★

    In which a reporter tries to find a slightly better ending to a March of Time piece.