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A Kiss Before Dying 1956
The Criterion "Noir in Color" series has been *so consistently good*, however my heart aches for Joanne Woodward having to have that perm!!!
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The Big Knife 1955
A completely insane movie, set at a continuous fever pitch that somehow keeps escalating; in the middle of it all, Shelley Winters steals the whole thing in a single scene. That Robert Aldrich made this the same year as Kiss Me Deadly is both absurd and totally believable.
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The Velvet Underground 2021
This has the distinction of being the first Great Film* I saw in a theater since the pandemic began, and having that realization as the credits started rolling made me weep, because on some level I must have feared I might never have that experience again. So, like: Hallelujah.
This movie is alive in a way that makes so many other recent documentaries feel dead. Instead of depicting the past through the limited critical viewpoints of the present, Haynes creates…
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