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  Bergman Island 2021

  Watched by Nick Newman 26 Sep 2021

  "I don’t know if there is really any progress or if you just stick to your own obsessions for your whole life, and sometimes something happens and you think you are on a new level — you’ve changed — and then you discover you haven’t changed at all and are still haunted by the same things."

  I interviewed Mia Hansen-Løve.

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  Dune 2021

  Watched by Nick Newman 12 Oct 2021

  Back-to-back scenes of Chang Chen talking some gibberish alien tongue and Charlotte Rampling wielding the most powerful voice in the universe: not nothing.

  Alternately titanic and interminable, which — sure — equals a perfect distillation of its source.

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  F for Fake 1973

  Rewatched by Nick Newman 24 Sep 2018

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Convincing the audience your girlfriend is hot enough to horn-up Picasso into 22 portraits... ultimate flex.

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  Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese 2019

  Watched by Nick Newman 10 Jun 2019

  Personal taste, interest, preference, the like would leave me pretty biased in favor of this. Putting all that aside, it is the best film I’ve ever seen.