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  Tokyo Story 1953

  ★★★★½ Watched 07 Jul 2024

  BRB, calling my grandparents

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  Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages 1916

  ★★ Watched 12 Jun 2023

  Another film that is difficult to rate because of its importance to the history of film, but deplorable creator. While true that his racism isn't as glaringly obvious in this film compared to The Birth of a Nation, there is still misogyny and homophobia on full display. And, while superficially beautiful at times, this project essentially stands as a monument to D.W. Griffith's ugly victimhood complex. Further, the film could at times be captivating, and at others difficult to follow…

Popular reviews

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  A Trip to the Moon 1902

  ★★★★★ Watched 10 Jan 2023

  5 stars, but I prefer Stanley Kubrick's 1969 remake

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  Ingeborg Holm 1913

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Feb 2023

  Many of the most important films up to this point had an emphasis on spectacle or melodrama. Ingeborg Holm is the earliest film I've seen to masterfully tell a story that serves as a social commentary in addition to melodrama. While I do love an attention-grabbing spectacle or a heart-wrenching melodrama, what I think I most value in art, broadly speaking, is its capacity to change the lives of those that engage with it for the better. That's not to…

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