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  • The Golden Coach
  • The Cardinal
  • They Died with Their Boots On
  • Duck, You Sucker

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  • The Curse of the Cat People

    ★★★½

  • I Taw a Putty Tat

  • Hannah and Her Sisters

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  • They Drive by Night

    ★★★★

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  • How Green Was My Valley

    How Green Was My Valley 1941

    ★★★★★ Added 5

    My dad passed away yesterday. He was truly my favorite guy in the world, and I'm going to miss him for the rest of my life. His favorite film was McCarey's Going My Way, and I'll forever cherish the memory of watching that beautiful film with him and the rest of my family on Christmas day. But now that our time together becomes a part of the past (and because cinema helps me understand my own life), I take consolation…

  • A Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea

    A Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea 1991

    ★★★★★ Watched 30 Jun 2024 18

    In A Child's Garden and the Serious Sea, one can see some of the aesthetic developments that Brakhage made with the "closed-eye" films - especially the Arabics, Egyptians, and Babylon series - being applied to a more metaphorical system of effects. Fred Camper has argued that The Riddle of Lumen anticipates these closed-eye films in its steps toward a further degree of abstraction, while still retaining in the finished work a faint semblance or recollection of the object(s) being filmed;…

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  • Sergeant Rutledge

    Sergeant Rutledge 1960

    ★★★★★ Watched 20 Jul 2018

    a cinema of protest: if Ford’s art represents a dialectical plea for tolerance and understanding, this is among its most scorchingly articulate entries. one reason this filmmaker’s work has meant so much to me is that it is always full of monsters; figures of bigotry and troubled patriarchs are always present at the founding of communities. in this way, Ford’s rigorous examinations of institutions and structures are always celebratory and scathing in equal measure. like Dreyer, he makes horror films…

  • Marnie

    Marnie 1964

    ★★★★★ Watched 27 Feb 2019 1

    after my recent rewatch of Rebecca, it occurred to me that the film is essentially a work of sensation fiction — about how it feels for a woman to move through spaces which are scarred by psychic trauma. in that film, psychological distress is contained at the narrative level; it pervades elusively in the background, haunting the interiority of the film in a deeply literary way. Marnie is not a literary film, it’s a film without an interior; everything it…

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