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  The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978

  ½ Watched 20 May 2015

  verisimilitudinous neoneorealist dickhead. you think rocky actually had to punch the other guy? hopefully olmi's somewhere chained to a rock getting his liver eaten prometheus style by that poor pig.

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  Election 2 2006

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Oct 2013 1

  johnnie to's darkest film and, really, one of the darkest i've ever seen. to has emerged as cinema's simenon (cinemon): one might have trouble identifying a single masterpiece within his massive body of work, but each film functions as kind of a piece in a larger masterwork. he's capable of a ferocity, beauty, strangeness, and humor most film directors can't even imagine.

Popular reviews

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  Song of Love 1954

  ★★★★★ Watched 31 Jul 2013

  mid-day screenings at MOMA are packed with droves of oldsters trying to get their money's worth on discounted yearly museum subscriptions -- these fuckers will see anything. a few years back i caught a double feature of vigo's zéro de conduite and genet's un chant d'amour. first picture goes off fine. genet's masterpiece rolls around and the fogies are in near hysterics: couple of walkouts, some grumbling, uncomfortable shifting & fidgeting, and a few shouts at the screen and/or projectionist… it's nice to know genet can still shock.

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  Only God Forgives 2013

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Jul 2013

  an email from a friend (and great film scholar):

  'I predict in 10 to 20 years Only God Forgives will be completely rehabilitated critically and regarded as a great film that was misunderstood in its time... in the way that most of Kubrick's films were.'

  yep.

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