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Cloud Atlas 2012
It’s a hell of an effort to film a seemingly unfilmable masterpiece of a novel. The novel works so well partly because its six different stories, so different not just in time but crucially in tone, have adequate separation while carrying the work’s themes along. A film can’t replicate that, or at least it wasn’t believed it could during this project; as author David Mitchell said, you can’t ask an audience to begin a new story for the sixth time…
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The 39 Steps 1935
Amusing but can’t overlook some absurdities. Just how did she end up with a knife in her back, exactly?
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Antoine and Colette 1962
What every 17 year old boy wants to hear: "My mother finds you very romantic."
"It was inevitable that Antoine Doinel would seize the first opportunity to fall desperately in love." - Truffaut
"Dear Antoine, your love letter was well-written." - Colette
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Live and Become 2005
In 1984, Sudan agreed to secretly allow Israel to evacuate Ethiopian Jews who were fleeing famine and living in refugee camps. Also living in the camps were Ethiopians of other religions. Live and Become begins when a Christian Ethiopian mother sends her 8 year old son to take the place of the son of a Jewish Ethiopian mother whose natural son has just died, just before they board the plane flying them to the safety and opportunity of Israel. Shortly…