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  Death Spa 1988

  Watched by Zach Cheney 28 May 2022 2

  With a cover image like that, one must temper one's expectations. But it had me thinking about the 80s as peak-hair dryer, the hair-dryer bubble, if you will, followed by the inevitable and rarely-discussed hair dryer crash, and all of it paralleled by the spandex bubble and its bursting. (The historians have failed us.) During tracking shots through the titular spa, you're assaulted with a pop-art color schema that would've made Warhol blush. A neglected classic. A kaleidoscope of stretchy…

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  Million Dollar Legs 1932

  Watched by Zach Cheney 27 May 2022

  Somehow, the spirit of the Marx Brothers in a Buñuel joint. Completely loved it. Unhinged, pre-Code H'wood throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. It's an historical injustice that a subsequent kind of film took the name "screwball."

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  Gone in Sixty Seconds 2000

  Rewatched by Zach Cheney 19 Feb 2019 3

  After Nic Cage goes all Zen-Buddhist listening to "Low Rider," then opens his eyes and says, "Let's ride," I told my wife to bury me with the blu-ray of this movie.

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  One Hundred and One Nights 1995

  ★★★★★ Watched by Zach Cheney 25 Apr 2017 2

  Are you familiar or in love with the following:

  Fellini/Mastroianni collaborations
  Mastroianni's repartee with Anouk Aimée
  Jean-Paul Belmondo
  Catherine Deneuve
  Robert De Niro (w/ ponytail)
  Alain Delon
  the Lumière brothers
  the Cannes Film Festival
  Luis Buñuel
  Gerard Depardieu's death scenes
  Welles & Touch of Evil
  Jeanne Moreau
  Jean Renoir
  Erich von Stroheim (in The Grand Illusion & Sunset Boulevard)
  Agnès Varda (esp. Cleo, Le Bonheur, & Vagabond)
  Jacques Demy (esp. Young Girls)
  Nosferatu
  and/or cinema?

  Then this is for you. Viewing this was…