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Silence is golden

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Showdown: A Quiet Place I have refrained from listing films of the Silent Era

Top 10 films with limited dialogue

  • Thelma & Louise
  • Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
  • Some Like It Hot
  • Paper Moon
  • Midnight Cowboy

Friends 'til the end

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Showdown: Besties Besties Besties

My 10 favorite friendship-duo films

  • Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
  • 40 Carats
  • T.R. Baskin
  • Defending Your Life
  • Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York

A change will do you good

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Showdown: A New Leaf

My 10 favorite films about fresh starts

  • Priest
  • Dogfight
  • Europa Europa
  • Proof
  • Clockwatchers

You go girl!

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Daughters of the Dust showdown Movies watched by “fewer than 25,000”

My 10 best under-seen women-directed films

  • Midnight Cowboy
  • The Exorcist
  • Chinatown
  • The Graduate
  • Barry Lyndon

Cut! That’s a wrap.

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Showdown: Calling the Shots

Best Oscar-nominated film directing.

  • My Life as a Zucchini
  • Luca
  • Flee
  • The Triplets of Belleville
  • Inside Out

Animation Appreciation

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Showdown: The Breadwinner

My favorite Oscar-nominated animated films.

  • Nashville
  • Jaws
  • Casablanca
  • Planet of the Apes
  • Murder on the Orient Express

Sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight.

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Showdown: Flight Plan

I work in the airline industry and these are my go-tos to help distract me from the…

  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • Alien
  • Annie Hall
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Five Easy Pieces

Bon Appétit

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Showdown: No Reservations

Favorite meal scenes in film.

  • Body Heat
  • The Last Seduction
  • Pretty Poison
  • Angel Face
  • Romeo Is Bleeding

🎶She’s just a devil woman with evil on her mind.🎶

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Showdown: Fatal Attraction

I followed this definition when selecting my favorite femme fatales in film.

Femme fa·tale /ˌfem fəˈtal/

noun…

  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  • Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
  • I Spit on Your Grave
  • Happiness
  • Blue Velvet

Down and Dirty

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Dirty Deeds Showdown

Excuse me while I go take a shower.

10 of the grimiest films ever made.

  • Carrie
  • 3 Women
  • Pretty Poison
  •  My Name
  • The Sterile Cuckoo

She had this weird habit of being herself

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Showdown: Girls, Interrupted

My favorite weirdest women in film.

  • Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
  • Goodbye, Columbus
  • Voyage of the Damned
  • Annie Hall
  • A Serious Man

Illuminated

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Top 10 favorite films about Jewish life.