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Reviews

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  Cleopatra 1963

  

  Richard ★★★★

  It might be easy to dismiss Cleopatra as a monument to Hollywood’s hubris, which in many ways it is, but it is still a monumental film. For all the focus…

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  I Am Happiness on Earth 2014

  

  товарищ

  Only after reading Hernández’s interview which he said that the relationship between a director and an actor is like an intense actual love did it actually strike me that I…

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  The Lady and the Monster 1944

  

  julianblair ★★½

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  Vintage Horrors in a desert setting

  This film is the first stab at adapting Curt Siodmak's Donovan's Brain to the Silver Screen. The results were mixed but it will…

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  Fallen Angels 1995

  

  Julian Nunez ★★★★★

  Very much a nocturnal companion piece to Chungking Express’ free-flowing, vibrant expression of yearning and love-lost in Hong Kong. Feels even more experimental than that exceptional work; lots of wide-angle…

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  Panic Room 2002

  

  Julian Nunez ★★★★

  Forgot how fluidly this thing moves, full of stellar cross-cutting, a sharp sense of space in these roving, cg-assisted long takes getting you acquainted to the Manhattan apartment as if…

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  The Virgin Suicides 1999

  

  Julian Nunez ★★★★

  What a sad, complex little film. Love how it’s structured like a standard nostalgic coming of age indie with dreamy needle drops and horny teenage beats drawing these subjective snapshots…

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  Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man 1976

  

  Todd Gaines ★★★★½

  Rouge-cops with a take-no-prisoners attitude, taking out the trash on the streets of Rome. Santa witnesses a curb-stomp. A seeing-eye dog's last walk. A badass motorcycle chase. Workplace flirtation. Orgasmic-police-interrogations.…

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  Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man 1976

  

  Pablo Knote ★★½

  "Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man" besitzt ein paar Qualitäten, die ihn zu einem einzigartigen Vertreter seiner Filmgattung machen. Allen voran die ziemlich deutlich homoerotisch konnotierte Beziehung der…