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Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts. We watch movies.

Favorite films

  • The Last Picture Show
  • An Unmarried Woman
  • Deliverance
  • The Conformist

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  • Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

  • The Man from Laramie

  • enger

  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

1968

Rewatched

Boy, has he.  

Saw this for the first time with my grandpa when I was six years old, in a double feature with Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, at the iral Drive-In in Tulsa.  It changed my life.

Still holds up. (What is Hammer Films without Freddie Francis or Terence Fisher?) Ostensibly set in 19th Century , but clearly it’s post-colonial England — the Church seems especially moldy and ineffectual, in spite of the unconvincing reaffirmation at the end.  And…

The Man from Laramie

1955

4

There should be a word for the feeling of peace that flows through me when I watch a Mann-Stewart Western. It's what I imagine sleepy milk-drunk babies feel when they're swaddled.

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Unforgiven

1992

1

Inarguable.  It was great when it came out but time has been good to it — it feels even more emotional now.  It’s earned its place in the pantheon of Great Westerns.

RIP Gene Hackman.