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  • Untitled
  • Bambi
  • Speaking Directly
  • Clarence

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  • The Magic Umbrella

    ★★★

  • Dahomey

    ★★★

  • San Francisco Chronicle Commercial

    ★★½

  • High Voltage

    ★★★

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  • Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    ★★★★½

    her: did you ever felt like more real because of being...

    jonas: how can i become more real than i am?

    her: when you're being filmed...

    jonas: i'm real in a different way when i'm being filmed, i'm still real.

    her: so it's no more or less just different?

    jonas: just different. still real. everything is real. there is nothing that is unreal. how could anything exist if it is not real? tell me. if i'm faking or joking i'm…

  • Rehearsals for Retirement

    Rehearsals for Retirement

    ★★★★★

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  • The Shop Around the Corner

    The Shop Around the Corner

    ★★★★★

    simply perfect, and as a resistance film it’s close to a miracle. a triumvirate of filmmaker, leading man and lady at the peak of their velocity. when biographer scott eyman asked ernst’s niece which of his films was most about him she responded “the shop around the corner; it contains the most of what he was, all the types, the people that were his friends, the people he loved".

  • Far Out, Star Route

    Far Out, Star Route

    ★★★★½

    lenny was a genuine shooting star. out of all i've seen of his work this tracks most with what i've read from him. unhinged, and allowing no space for the middle to impact the low and high.

    in the wonderful book "radical light: alternative film and video in the san francisco bay area, 1945-2000" there is a reprint of a letter lenny wrote to p adams sitney after he took issue with a rather dismissive piece written in the voice.…

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