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  Noroît 1976

  Rewatched 23 Jan 2023

  The history of cinema is Charlie Chaplin fathering a daughter who stars in an experimental pirate movie directed by Jacques Rivette who would publicly disparage the highest-grossing movie of all time directed by James Cameron who would direct Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter in the second, third, and fourth sequel to his subsequent highest-grossing movie of all time.

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  Duran Duran: Unstaged 2014

  Watched 20 Jan 2023

  Always liked the idea of leaving just one David Lynch thing I haven’t seen, but on his birthday completism won out. If many of the optical effects are kind of neat and genuinely funny, Duran Duran’s music makes this feel longer than season 3.

  Seems telling this opens with a prerecorded intro of Lynch goofing off and ends with an awkward pause as the lead singer (not gonna look up his name) asks him to come onstage and he’s nowhere to be seen.

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