Mark Asch

Mark Asch

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I could never take the place of your man.

New York, NY
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  • Career Girls
  • Crossing Delancey
  • Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
  • Yi Yi

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  • A Traveler's Needs

  • Conclave

  • Juror #2

  • Twisters

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  • A Traveler's Needs

    A Traveler's Needs 2024

    Watched 30 Nov 2024

    perhaps because Hong writes on the fly (the actors get the day’s dialogue in the morning, sometimes when they arrive on set), there’s always a feeling in his movies of small talk, of trying to push through the initial awkwardness to someplace real. “What should I say next? I have to say something.” this feeling is underscored in many of his recurrent space-filling tics: cutaways to animals, the way people turn their attention to coo over pets when they don’t…

  • Conclave

    Conclave 2024

    Watched 19 Nov 2024 6

    vintage Dumb Smart Movie (as opposed to a Smart Dumb Movie) whose intellectual gloss on an ostensibly highbrow milieu tops out at dichotomies of liberalism and conservativism, idealism and pragmatism, ambition and humility which are obviously analogous to horserace coverage of American electoral politics. (The script is less sophisticated than the characters, but more sophisticated than Academy voters.) This would be fine, especially if the Illuminati hadn’t assassinated Alan J Pakula, but unfortunately, Berger thinks this is a movie about…

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  • The Comfort of Strangers

    The Comfort of Strangers 1990

    ★★★★½ Watched 01 Aug 2020 3

    as with all top-tier Schrader, if you told me this movie was directed by a virgin, i would believe you

  • Husbands

    Husbands 1970

    ★★★★½ Watched 31 Aug 2020

    Gazzara has no brain, Cassavetes has no heart, Falk has no courage, and not a Dorothy to be found anywhere. Truly, there's no place like home.

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