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  • Mo' Better Blues
  • My Brother's Wedding
  • I Am Suzanne!
  • Scorpio Rising

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  • The Other Also

  • Flirt

  • Flirt

  • The Piano Teacher

    ★★★★★

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  • Digimon: The Movie

    Digimon: The Movie

    ★★★★★

    EPIGRAPH
    "I've never had to knock on wood. But I know someone who has..."
    [italics mine. - ed]

    STORY
    It was the mid-to-late 90s and I was sat in the cold in my father's van in the Bayview Elementary parking lot. The station was playing it again. The station was always playing it again. Through aimless tuning, we had found — that is, my sister and I had found — a frequency which played one song and only one song. In…

  • Do the Right Thing

    Do the Right Thing

    ★★★★★

    SPIKE LEE: Here come “New York’s Finest.” The title Do The Right Thing does not really refer to Mookie throwing the garbage can through the window, I mean. My experience, you know, since this film’s come out, the white audience, they’re more concerned about destruction of property, the destruction of Sal’s Famous Pizzeria, than they were about the death of Radio Raheem. I think they should ask themselves that question: why are they more concerned with the property of this…

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  • The Other Also

    The Other Also

    I could and would and will definitely watch this many times.

  • Flirt

    Flirt

    Dwight's outfit, strutting outside, incredible.



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    A very meta movie. Wild moment: the filmmaker's (he's playing himself) film can (the film we are watching, we learn) is knocked over and it causes the protagonist to shoot herself in the face. The movie itself gets rattled from the inside and compels its fulcrum to implode.

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  • Always Tell Your Wife

    Always Tell Your Wife

    ★★★

    The BFI Mediatheque currently has it as a streaming selection and I watched it at their Southbank London location. The surviving reel runs 12 minutes, features a fair amount of intertitles, and is a very dry and slow affair, elegant in its way. The opening credits are included and all of the labelled cast members look exactly as they should. As far as I can tell, this film is only viewable at these BFI locations, but it is totally free…

  • The Owl and the Pussycat

    The Owl and the Pussycat

    ★★★★★

    Sometimes you know you’re going to love a movie from the vibe of the opening credits. It didn’t hurt that they included the words “Barbra Streisand.”

    The Doris nightwear/skeleton outfit combo is the only couples costume I can accept.