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  Sullivan's Travels 1941

  

  sallitt

  Sullivan's Travels. It reminded me a little of Unfaithfully Yours, in that there’s a forceful thematic plan that indicates the film's ambition, but which leads Sturges into modes that I…

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  EO 2022

  

  Matt Ellis ★★★★

  I enjoyed this! But I have to say, every time they piped in some asynch sound of the donkey crying to make it seem like he was sad all I…

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  Morocco 1930

  

  Jeremy Nyhuis ★★★★½

  Initially resisted this due to its phlegmatic pacing (Sternberg never was one for narrative economy, especially during this period), but the film's atmospheric textures are so envelopingly pungent that I…

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  Macbeth 1948

  

  Filipe Furtado ★★★★ 1

  Welles goes all in imagining MacBeth as self delusion nightmare full of great gothic touches. An imprrsive achievement on atmosphere and texture, Shakespeare not as words but mad visual entrapnment.…

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  Parenthood 1989

  

  C. Thiel ★★★½

  “After I blow a hole in somebody and slip around on their guts—afterwards, I like to make… balloon animals.”

  Well, it finally happened: I hated a Rick Moranis character. To…

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  The World 2004

  

  Danny Graziano ★★★★★ 3

  I can never ever write about Jia. Maybe when I see more of his films I’ll be able to, I guess, but I mean, I’m already at 5. It doesn’t…

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  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000

  

  mmcc ★★★★

  This has always tended to be the film from the wave of Chinese exports in the early 2000s that registered with me least. On a prior revisit, I'd put this…

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  The Lady Eve 1941

  

  Marc Raymond ★★★★½

  Another Sturges that improved for me on a second viewing, although I still think the final act is not as strong as the nearly perfect first half on the boat.…