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The Bitter Tea of General Yen 1932
28th watch of my “Watch This Shit in 2019” list
Capra doing von Sternberg...holy shit. This is unquestionably the most audacious work I've seen from Capra, visually and thematically. It's at times a fraught and uncomfortable watch, particularly from a modern perspective, but this tension contributes to the film's erotic thrall.
THE BITTER TEA OF GENERAL YEN so thoroughly immerses itself in the tangled threads of orientalism, exoticism, religion, racism, and sexuality that it is worth the offense because of…
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L'Avventura 1960
"Who needs beautiful things nowadays, Claudia? How long will they last? All of this was built to last centuries. Today, ten, twenty years at the most, and then? Well..."
Self-sabotage in a barren and desolate world, the wealthy wrecking lives and creating chaos—a shark sighting, an affair or two or three, a disappearance, a spilled bottle of ink—to try and leave some impact on the physical world. They try to convert emotion into reality—or create emotion where there is none,…
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A Chorus Line 1985
Maybe it’s just because an extremely insufferable Rachel Berry knockoff played the role in my high school’s production, but I don’t give a fuck about Cassie. Get back to the chorus people already, christ.
Also, absolutely criminal the way they hacked “At The Ballet” to shreds!
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The Lovers 1958
I am tickled fucking pink imagining a gaggle of Supreme Court justices watching this artsy French New Wave film to determine if it's obscene pornography
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Mikey and Nicky 1976
Contemplating suing BU for the cost of my tuition because in all my film classes there was never a single screening or even a mention of an Elaine May film, so clearly this cinema studies degree is fucking W O R T H L E S S
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