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Favorite films

  • Impromptu
  • The 400 Blows
  • The Red Balloon
  • The Brother from Another Planet

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  • Blitz

  • Escapes

  • The Million Dollar Hotel

  • Can You Ever Forgive Me?

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Blow Out

1981

Liked Rewatched

Tony schlock (and an homage to Antonioni's Blow-up!), elevated by De Palma and his cast to something between art and an ABC After School Special.

A Dry White Season

1989

★★★★★ Liked Watched

I see this every few years, i.e., every chance I get, since the first time. It's just as powerful now. And I only found out this viewing it was directed by the first black woman to direct for a major film studio, Euzhan Palcy, and all this, during South African apartheid. See Cry the Beloved Country, sure, but it feels like Disney compared with this story. Thanks, Criterion.

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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

2019

Liked Watched

Now I'm ready for some Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

2019

Liked Watched

Beautiful, affecting film. For those who have done time (in golden handcuffs) there, especially so.

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