This was my ninth watch in four years, which is of course complete insanity. This time my justification was that it was back on the big screen, and I think that, especially in hindsight, that was a very good reason to go. Almost unthinkable, I know! Nine times! NINE! But against all odds, I had a great time. I would even go as far as saying that this was my favourite watch since that one first time I saw it.…
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Late Spring 1949
Eric Rohmer is one of my favourite directors, if not the favourite. Perhaps this is why I sometimes look for him in the works of other directors. I see some Rohmer in Linklater. And I saw some Rohmer in this film, too... of course, it would be much more accurate to say that I saw some Ozu in Rohmer, since Ozu made most of his films well before Rohmer did! Anyway, it bothers me a little that I felt this…
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The Great Dictator 1940
Charlie Chaplin, the master of endings. Having watched City Lights just the day before, this film leaves me just as speechless but in a different way. Nevertheless, the last minutes of this film are equally ruthlessly effective at making the viewer feel something. It's quite remarkable.
The two famous scenes - the 'globe-dance' and the final speech - clearly deserve their fame. When I was watching the dance sequence, I was mostly paying attention to Chaplin's beautiful movements. I knew…
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The Kid 1921
With each Chaplin film I watch (and I am not doing so chronologically), I get a better sense of Chaplin as a total auteur. These films feel as if they are the product of one visionary's total creative control, for better or worse. That is not to say that Chaplin had all the ideas, as Jackie Coogan has noted in an interview. But these films feel so drastically coherent, carefully made, that I cannot escape the sense that Chaplin really…
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