What a gem of a movie Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure is. The premise is inspired silliness, and the script and performances are driven by a generosity of goodwill that you don't find often enough: it's a movie about friendship, about loyalty, about truly "being excellent to each other." There are wickedly funny jokes throughout - few things make me laugh as hard as Bill's response when Sigmund Freud offers him a session, or when Bill and Ted try to…
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Bay of Angels 1963
Jacques Demy's Bay of Angels, his follow-up to his brilliant Lola, is a darker affair than many of his other, better-known films, but no less worthy of a viewing. It's not quite as dreamy as Lola, and its more downbeat elements aren't tempered with the lush colors or Michel Legrand songs you'd find in later works like The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Still, it's a gorgeously shot character study, and Jeanne Moreau gives a first-rate performance as a glamorous gambler who,…
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