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Man Hunt 1941
(My 900th review!)
A film full of American actors constantly talking about how British they are while doing a staggering array of comically terrible accents, ranging from Walter Pidgeon barely trying to cover up his Americanness to Joan Bennett's totally deranged interpretation of a Cockney Londoner. Orson Welles in The Lady from Shanghai has nothing on this ensemble. I found all of this so distracting that it constantly took me out of the film.
There are some good parts, including…
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Artists and Models 1955
One of the more psychotically dated Jerry Lewis movies. Full of skin crawling scenes where Dean Martin flirts with/sexually coerces Dorothy Malone and Shirley MacLaine sexually terrorises Lewis. The open perversity reaches its peak when Jerry claims on live television that years of reading comic books have left him “a little retarded.” In 1955, this was a family film, even including a musical number between Martin and a street full of children, but it has curdled into psychosexual horror - somehow charming but maybe deservedly trapped in dollar store blu-ray bins.
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Conquest 1983
the most fantastique of all fantasy bcz it actually feels like it was transmitted from another dimensional plane. every scene is clouded in iridescent fumes & i dont know why anybody does anything. why does ecco the dolphin save a crucified freegan warrior from drowning? our realm is not meant to know
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The Swimmer 1968
Gigachad on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Every time I watch a Burt Lancaster movie I get really morose about the current state of the Hollywood leading man. We just don’t have anyone like Burt anymore. I haven’t even ever met a guy my age with the name Burt
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Licorice Pizza 2021
Pretty soon NSW and its neighbouring states will be hitting astronomical daily Covid numbers. January 2022 will be considered a landmark month in the future, and younger generations will probably ask us what it was like. How going to the supermarket, now more than any other point in the last two years, is a dangerous roll of the dice; how hugging your friends can’t be taken for granted. But how does it feel? We are the only people moving forward who…
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Annette 2021
There is a provocation of ghostly intent in the spirit of Jean Vigo’s underwater siren from L’atalante (1934) for Ann (Marion Cotillard), who dies on the stage every night, and is awarded with grandeur and applause. She is hardly present, a wafting bit of smoke, stricken with tragic feminine shading that cinema has worn as fashion since films were silent. She is so very in love with her husband Henry (Adam Driver), but she knows he is a man, physical…
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Illustrious Corpses 1976
frankly inconceivable to me to see a youthful left-wing movement blamed for the sins of a corrupt judiciary and immoral police force. simply can’t imagine that happening today.
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