In some ways, it is amusing that Philip Kaufman follow up two fake art movies with Rising Sun which is the definition of an early 90s potboiler. It is far…
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The Only Game in Town 1970
It is rather intriguing that after increasing big movies, George Stevens closed his career with this two-handler about an aging showgirl and a gambling addict in Las Vegas. The studio…
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Personal Shopper 2016
Phone messages from the undead. A Lewton like 40s chiller with a hint of Rivette. It doesn’t always work and is much better when Stewart is allowed to be alone…
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California Split 1974
In some ways, Altman mostly conventional satisfying movie as the gambling addiction motif gives it a momentum he never achieved elsewhere. There’s those two degenerate gamblers bonding and going on…
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The Right Stuff 1983
Cowboys going into space. One of the few movies made in Hollywood after the mid-60s that can be right called Fordian. Mythmaking and its double mirror. American exceptionalism and its…
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The Wanderers 1979
The Wanderers is pitched in a very unusual tone, it pretty much part of the 70s nostalgia movies (there's almost as many Four Seasons songs as in Jersey Boys) and…
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The Long Goodbye 1973
The sad tale of a guy who tried to be a good friend and lost his cat instead. Leigh Brackett script is predictable in breakdown of trust as seen through…
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