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  Once More 1988

  Added by TajLV

  Happy to announce:
  The Autumn Rewatch Challenge 2022 is now open for participation.

  See all the details here: letterboxd.com/tajlv/list/autumn-rewatch-challenge-2022/.

  Please join us. Lots of fun!

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  Cinderella 2021

  ★★★½ Watched by TajLV 16 Aug 2022

  Film #35 among my 52 Films by Women 2022

  Whoa! Where did all the hate come from for Kay Cannon's updated version of a favorite childhood fable? Let's be honest. The soundtrack is dope. The story twists are innovative. And the acting is okay. So chill people!

  I was enchanted by Camila Cabello in the lead as Ella aka Cinderella. Girl can sing and act and she is oh-so-easy on the eyes. The mice... meh. I get that. But Minnie…

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  Imitation of Life 1959

  ★★★★ Rewatched by TajLV 15 Aug 2022

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  Part of My Autumn Rewatches 6.2 Challenge
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  Task #2: Rewatch a film from your birth decade.

  For my rewatch of Douglas Sirk's adaptation of Fannie Hurst's 1933 novel, and following up my viewing of John M. Stahl's 1934 original version, I chose to listen to the feature commentary with film historian Foster Hirsch. He was a huge fan of this film, and he gushed about everything from camera angles and color selections to the private lives of the…

Popular reviews

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  Mulholland Drive 2001

  ★★★★½ Watched by TajLV 09 Aug 2014 31

  No hay banda! It's all a tape. Il n'est pas de orquestra. It is... an illusion! ~ Bondar at Club Silencio

  This magnificent movie will mess with your mind. Over a five-hour period on Saturday night, I watched this film carefully, read up about it on the Internet, and watched it again with frequent pauses and rewinds. I know I liked it. I think I get it. But one never knows for sure with David Lynch.

  SPOILER ALERT - SPOILER…

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  The Squid and the Whale 2005

  ★★★½ Watched by TajLV 04 Aug 2014 6

  Dad is a pretentious jerk. Mom is having serial affairs. Little brother is cursing like a sailor, masturbating at every opportunity and smearing his semen on library books. Older brother is plagiarizing Pink Floyd lyrics and passing them off as his own. But hey, it's Brooklyn in the 1980s. The solution, of course, is for the parents to divorce and arrange for joint custody of the kids. Or is it?

  This highly autobiographical family drama from Noah Baumbach is a…