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Reviews

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  The Sound of Music 1965

  

  comrade_yui ★★★★ 2

  really wanted to come into this with a hot take by saying that it's overrated, too schmaltzy, or overproduced, but nah, it's actually good. everything here looks impossibly huge and…

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  Irma Vep 1996

  

  Theo Rollason ★★★★★ 2

  Taps into the various death-of-cinema pronouncements surrounding the medium’s centenary, and ponders the state of French cinema in particular, as highlighted by the smart casting of Jean-Pierre Léaud. The once-great…

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  Pierrot le Fou 1965

  

  comrade_yui ★★★★★ 3

  godard abandons the high-modernism and hollywood genres of his earlier work and confronts the question of whether cinema allows us to truly know someone, fictional or non-fictional -- and finds…

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  Daguerréotypes 1975

  

  Gabe Klinger

  Varda is fascinated by geography, organizing her films up and down straight lines: Cléo moves along connecting boulevards in Montparnasse, Mona the vagabond is followed by tracking shots with clear…

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  Little White Dove 1973

  

  Filipe Furtado ★★★ 1

  One of Ruiz last movies before his exile (I know he finished a movie in France shot previously, but I suspect this one is likely the last one he shot…

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  Serial Mom 1994

  

  Jonno ★★★★★

  Kathleen Turner eyebrow acting

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  Yi Yi 2000

  

  Charles Mosner

  Considering the misgivings I've had with Yang's other work, I was surprised by how accessible this is. The scenes are still many and short, but they're more connected than in…

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  The Awful Truth 1937

  

  Filipe Furtado ★★★★½

  First, there's not more than a dozen things in the history of American movies sexier than Cary Grant making sure a door can stay put so he can jump in…