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L’Atalante (1934)
Filmmaker(s): Jean Vigo

Capricious small-town girl Juliette and barge captain Jean marry after a whirlwind courtship, and she comes to live aboard his boat, L'Atalante. As they make their way down the Seine, Jean grows weary of Juliette's flirtations with his all-male crew, and Juliette longs to escape the monotony of the boat and experience the excitement of a big city. When she steals away to Paris by herself, her husband begins to think their marriage was a mistake.

Adam in His Prime a legacy! There's a very fine recent film named "Young Adam." Its extremely well done and it matters. Few people saw it I think. Its very much like this, indeed has some of the very shots. Its set on a barge and...


Published December 11, 2024
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La Jetée (1962)
A man's obsession with an image of his past.
Filmmaker(s): Chris Marker

A man is sent back and forth and in and out of time in an experiment that attempts to unravel the fate and the solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world during the aftermath of WW3. The experiment results in him getting caught up in a perpetual reminiscence of past events that are recreated on an airport’s viewing pier.

Thirteen Monkeys wish I had seen this before "Twelve Monkeys." Except for "Fear and Loathing," Gilliam is artless (but reflexive). This is much more clever in how its manner (single images) reflects its story (how registration of images in the memory can fold time). Its a...


Published September 14, 2025
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Wicked (2024)
Everyone deserves the chance to fly.
Filmmaker(s): Jon M. Chu

In the land of Oz, ostracized and misunderstood green-skinned Elphaba is forced to share a room with the popular aristocrat Glinda at Shiz University, and the two's unlikely friendship is tested as they begin to fulfill their respective destinies as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.

Information Warfare became entangled with Oz in a serious way outside the movie. The Edgar Cayce Foundation in Virginia Beach is a legacy of a trend in the 1930s, begun long before where we seek more elaborate external forces than a single God. This trend...


Published December 17, 2024
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Fly Me to the Moon (2024)
Will they make history... or fake it?
Filmmaker(s): Greg Berlanti

Sparks fly in all directions as marketing maven Kelly Jones, brought in to fix NASA's public image, wreaks havoc on Apollo 11 launch director Cole Davis' already difficult task of putting a man on the moon. When the White House deems the mission too important to fail, Jones is directed to stage a fake moon landing as backup, and the countdown truly begins.

No Go may like this simply as a romantic story. Many people seem to need stories about finding love, and the improbable dance that brings couples together. I’m fine with that, and fine with watching even badly constructed stories, because I revel in a successful,...


Published December 22, 2024
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Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
Only when you are lost can you truly find yourself
Filmmaker(s): Bille August

Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.

Authorship did not work for me, and I would like to discover and report why. It is a film adapted from a successful book, in which (another) book is the primary agent. Both the outer and inner books are deeply philosophical, abstracting themes about life that...


Published December 24, 2024
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Love Actually (2003)
The ultimate romantic comedy.
Filmmaker(s): Richard Curtis

Eight London couples try to deal with their relationships in different ways. Their tryst with love makes them discover how complicated relationships can be.

Structured Simultaneity am a sucker for date movies: I laugh and cry - especially cry - along with the rest. And then feel violated afterwards by the asymmetry of reward: they get my money time and a piece of my soul and I get useless...


Published December 24, 2024
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In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
Never before had a man and a woman loved each other so intensely.
Filmmaker(s): Nagisa Ōshima

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.

Pudendal Space Japanese notion of space is highly developed: abstract but visceral, refined but applicable to a daily, graceful life. That notion, and the philosophy of beauty through balance ('katachi') is what makes the Japanese sense of architecture worth incorporating into one's life. Many good...


Published March 8, 2025
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My Blueberry Nights (2007)
How do you say goodbye to someone you can't imagine living without?
Filmmaker(s): Wong Kar-wai

Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of waitress jobs along the way. As Elizabeth crosses paths with a series of lost souls whose yearnings are even greater than her own, their emotional turmoil ultimately helps her gain a greater understanding of her own problems...

Cream Flowing Over Magnolia Blueberries is one of our three greatest living filmmakers. He has transformed imagination for a planet. When real histories are written, artists like this will be appreciated for what they begin, giants compared to politicians who can only try to end things. His...


Published June 17, 2025
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Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.
Filmmaker(s): Joe Wright

A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.

Juxtapositions amazed at how many people think of books as being encompassed by their stories. When that story appears in a film relatively unaltered, purists rejoice. How silly. Stories are there as frames on which all the meaningful stuff is draped. Or so it would be...


Published June 17, 2025
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Chungking Express (1994)
What a difference a day makes.
Filmmaker(s): Wong Kar-wai

Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.

Discontinuous experiments in this film, and I took some trouble in sorting them out. The first thing you'll notice is the discontinuous camerawork, accentuated by low (never high) angles and strobeflashframes. This element by itself is sophomoric filmschoolism. Then you have the plot tags and storyline. The...


Published June 17, 2025
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