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Four Favorite All Time Films. BTW, gotta know I love 3-star movies, I bathe in them.

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  • Walkabout
  • Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • All That Jazz

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  • Pawn Sacrifice

    ★½

  • The American Society of Magical Negroes

    ★★★

  • American Fiction

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  • Jagged Edge

    ★★★

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  • Conclave

    Conclave 2024

    ★★★★ Watched 05 Dec 2024

    I was reading on the X app that Conclave was a serious contender for the Best Picture Oscar, and I started to feel obligated. I didn’t want to be obligated to go out to see it in theaters but I became too curious over its impending Oscar pedigree. In recent years I had seen other Church and Vatican dramas like the desperate-to-be-admired “The Two Popes” and some other works just like that one with titles I cannot ever remember but…

  • Breaking the Waves

    Breaking the Waves 1996

    ★★★★★ Watched 03 Oct 2023

    I think I’m an atheist. People over the years ask me if I believe in God? My answer is often, I may not believe in God, but I believe in the ending of Breaking the Waves.

    Lars von Trier’s groundbreaking Dogme 95 entry remains a harrowing and incomparable romantic tragedy. Von Trier took handheld Panasonic film, transferred it to video, and then back again – coming up with a sheer intimate documentary look. Bess (Emily Watson, in one of cinema’s…

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  • Pawn Sacrifice

    Pawn Sacrifice 2014

    ★½ Watched 14 Dec 2024

    I always thought I wanted to see a movie on chess champion Bobby Fischer until I got one. This one unfortunately. Pawn Sacrifice is an All-American movie that is partisan to the American hero myth. Tobey Maguire takes on Bobby Fischer as a mentally troubled paranoid, which in another movie if explained with finer depth would have been interesting. But simply in this movie: Bobby hates his mother, he hates the Russians, and he regards himself as the greatest chess…

  • The American Society of Magical Negroes

    The American Society of Magical Negroes 2024

    ★★★ Watched 12 Dec 2024

    This one has a rib-tickling quotient to its satire, probably at its hottest in the first half hour, yet I enjoyed all of it. The American Society of Magical Negroes begins as something of a daring satire: Young dweebish artist (Justice Smith as Aren) with no backbone is swept into an underground society comprised of a talisman and telekenesis experts whom are there to teach blacks on how to please white people and assimilate their way, so whites in the…

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  • Walkabout

    Walkabout 1971

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 20 Aug 2019 18

    “In Australia when an Aborigine man-child reaches sixteen, he is sent out into the land. For months he must live from it. Sleep on it. Eat of its fruit and flesh. Stay alive. Even if means killing his fellow creatures. The Aborigines call it the Walkabout. This is the story of a Walkabout.” – Prologue

    The greatest film ever made. Walkabout features two city children lost in the Outback, luckily saved by an Aborigine boy who is on his yearlong…

  • The Terminator

    The Terminator 1984

    ★★★★½ Rewatched 27 Apr 2020 8

    One of my favorite Andrei Tarkovsky moves ever was when during his illness he steered a print interview towards praising an American film he had just seen, The Terminator. He said:

    "The brutality and low acting skills are unfortunate, but as a vision of the future and the relation between man and his destiny, the film is pushing the frontier of cinema as an art."

    It's of course a brand blockbuster sci-fi name now. But in 1984, James Cameron was…

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