"Youβre looking at me as ifβ¦to tell me that I need you to fill me up, as if Iβm an empty space. Well, I love you too, but what makes me go on is to know heβll return, and Iβll make him suffer, andβ¦Iβll hurt him, and Iβm betraying him, but this brings me small rewards. Well, but yetβ¦I canβt exist by myself because Iβm afraid of myself. Because Iβm the maker of my own evil!β¦ Goodness is only someβ¦
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Possession 1981
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The Exorcist 1973
There are few films that are preceded by their own reputation as much as The Exorcist is, but it's there every time you watch it. Whether it's your first viewing or your hundredth, you can't ignore the pop culture history of it sitting right next to you, pea soup vomit and all. And, yet, take all that away and at its core you still have one hell of a movie.
William Friedkin's biggest and boldest studio film caught me offβ¦
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Scream 1996
So what if it's a few days before October actually begins...
So what if it's a handful of films into my Spooky Season viewing when it's usually first...
So what if this is my 5th review and 17th time logging this film on here...
It doesn't matter. This one starts it.
It's the one my wife and I both grew up with as nineties kids, sneaking around behind our parents' back (literally watching it behind her dad's back, in her⦠-
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar 2023
The most literal Roald Dahl adaptation was always going to come from Wes Anderson wasn't it... Well, there are three more of these to come, so we'll see.
As blissful and as beautiful and as precisely imagined as I had hoped The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar would be, the way Wes plays with the ideas of storytelling's artifice and artificiality here as his actors intersect and interchange within the various stories, and even with the fourth wall of aβ¦
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Last Tango in Paris 1972
Maria Schneider:
"I should have called my agent or had my lawyer come to the set because you can't force someone to do something that isn't in the script, but at the time, I didn't know that. Marlon said to me: 'Maria, don't worry, it's just a movie,' but during the scene, even though what Marlon was doing wasn't real, I was crying real tears. I felt humiliated and to be honest, I felt a little raped, both by Marlonβ¦
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The Usual Suspects 1995
The greatest trick Kevin Spacey ever pulled was convincing the world he was a decent human being.
