Mostly inert until Kaye Francis shows up, her presence enlivening not just the film (which was hitherto a Wellman pastiche in its slew of front-loaded dramatic events), but George Brent…
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Both Sides of the Blade 2022
While shooting there is a sort of… I am incapable to have that distance, to feel joy or fear. It’s a mixture of… the restlessness came…
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An Autumn Afternoon 1962
A bittersweet very funny and not so quiet devasting movie about things ending and starting that is animated by its many paradoxes. One of the major tragedies of Ozu's western…
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Crimes of the Future 2022
As a filmmaker given to literalizing what most others would keep as subtext, David Cronenberg has a filmography filled with works that could be seen as ne plus ultras of…
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Joint Security Area 2000
Possibly Park's most completely formulated and executed film – no stylistic funny business, just a slick, focused Hawksian neo-western about fraternal bonding between political antagonists. I much prefer it when…
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American Graffiti 1973
i just love how much sour there is with the sweet here. i think its remarkably clear-eyed about its characters and their limitations.
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Mildred Pierce 2011
Parts 1-2: She was a waitress wearing a white dress
Parts 3-4: Look how she does this, look how she got this
Part 5: Down at the men in music…
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The Last 100 Films I Loved

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Film at Lincoln Center 37 films
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The Hong Sangsoo Multiverse: A Retrospective of Double Features

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Sean Gilman 5 films
Art of the Real 2022

Film at Lincoln Center 20 films
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