I write sometimes. Top 4 is more of a four-way tie for my favorite film.
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The Searchers 1956
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
A fascinating paradox. This feels like a film deconstructing the "Cowboy vs Indian" style of Western while also indulging in all those tropes more-or-less straightforwardly: Most of the focus is on the unambiguously nasty and petty racism that drives Ethan throughout the movie, but the actual Native American characters—although never devolving into stereotypical caricatures—still don't get a role any higher than the vaguely othered enemy. It's interesting that Ethan is justified in his anger at the Comanche for their slaughter…
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Duck Soup 1933
At the Hollywood Theatre. I love the validation of hearing a sold-out crowd of people young and old losing their mind at movies like this. I don't have much else to say other than I've seen this 5 times and it's still murder for my sides and lungs, I'm gonna have to spend like an hour deep-breathing in a quiet room to recover. If one joke doesn't hit you, wait two seconds and you'll be pummeled by 15 more. "Freedonia's…
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PlayTime 1967
One of my favorite films of all time, and that only gets more true on every re-watch. Whenever I watch it again I always pick up on gags that I completely missed the last time around, the film's jokes are so densely layered that I feel like I could watch it a million times and still miss things. All the jokes are so subtly choreographed that they feel like they're just happening naturally, you forget that you're watching a hundred…
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