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Happy Together 1997
TONY LEUNG: I have many regrets and I think they will kill me.
CHANG CHEN: I have a cool baseball cap.
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May December 2023
A shame we never got to see Portman practice carrying a glass of milk. But then, there are some things even our best actors can’t capture. Like how Julianne Moore carries a glass of milk.
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Half a Loaf of Kung Fu 1978
This movie opens with a sleeping Jackie dreaming about appearing in an over-the-top martial arts title credits action sequence. Later in the film, a sleeping Jackie dreams about getting four ordinary guys to stop beating his ass in broad daylight by shouting, "I gotta take a shit!!!!" That's the thing about dreams: they're a real grab bag.
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TÁR 2022
JUILLIARD STUDENT: I never played The Last of Us. I’d rather spend my free time—and my money—supporting work places that foster fair labor practices.
LYDIA TÁR: Oh, yes, I suppose we should sacrifice the mechanical ambitions of Jak X: Combat Racing and the technical prowess of A Thief’s End to the ever-evolving, reckless defenestrations of contemporary culture’s most regressive whims. Great art—like Cortex Strikes Back, or Keef the Thief—requires dedication, young man. Would you want your nascent work to be defined by how…
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The Fabelmans 2022
On this watch, I began to notice a number of interesting parallels between the adventures of young Sammy Fabelman and many of the known details about the youth of filmmaker Steven Spielberg.
