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Playtime (1967)
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Read more: Playtime (1967)Now, with Playtime, I have settled on a murderous rage so complete that it’s bound to be as emotional as I’ll get over someone who’s long dead
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Deconstructing Harry (1997)
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Read more: Deconstructing Harry (1997)Deconstructing Harry is, at last, Woody Allen’s confessional. As his character Harry Block says to a throng of admirers once he reaches the college now conferring upon him an honorary degree, “I won’t deny it anymore”..it’s me.” We knew it all along, of course, but how fitting indeed that he waited until this film to…
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The Conversation
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Read more: The ConversationA unique masterpiece.
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The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003)
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Read more: The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003)Fucking hippies. Nixon was right to fear them, though not because their silly idealism and bed-ins would have accomplished little more than ensuring that otherwise ugly people got lai
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Stolen (2005)
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Read more: Stolen (2005)Directed by Rebecca Dreyfus Matt Cale hearts the arts Goddamned Irish. When the drunken sons-a-bitches aren’t stinking up assorted bars, pubs, and city streets, they’re fixing elections, irritating the uninformed with endless tales of woe, and speaking so romantically of the mother country that one can’t help but wish the fuckers had been wiped out…
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Requiem For a Heavyweight (1962)
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Read more: Requiem For a Heavyweight (1962)Although Raging Bull will always hold the title among depressing boxing movies, Ralph Nelson’s 1962 downer Requiem for a Heavyweight holds its own quite nicely, refusing to give us a final triumph, or even a glimmer of hope of any kind. The film considers sad, pathetic Mountain Rivera (Anthony Quinn), a good-hearted soul (aren’t they…
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Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
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Read more: Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)Die! Die! Die, my Darling.
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A Prairie Home Companion
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Read more: A Prairie Home CompanionThe master’s swan song becomes one of his finest works.
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THE PROPOSITION
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Read more: THE PROPOSITIONIs it possible to be both beautiful and dull? Striking, yet on the whole, a complete waste of time?
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Art School Confidential (2006)
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Read more: Art School Confidential (2006)Holding snooty, painfully untalented art students (hell, artists in general) up to ridicule might not sound like the peak of…