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One Week 1920
Watch Buster Keaton not build a house. Having just finished the fourth and most recent season of “Only Murders in the Building,” all I could think of were stuntmen. That seems to be at the root of the Keaton success (and far smarter people have said this better than me). In any case, amazing film. It was also really touching / disturbing to see Hollywood in its earliest, “there’s nothing here we are in the middle of the desert” phase, as old LA is in the process of burning down. 😞
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Dazed and Confused 1993
Somehow, I (born in 1977) have never watched this movie from start to finish in one sitting, though it is possible I’ve seen most of it in various pieces and as part of the larger meme-zeitgeist. My Italian partner, sitting next to me as the film ended last night, noted that for your average Italian this film would seem to be nothing special, raised as so many of her generation were on mediocre American teen comedies imported via Berlusconni television. …
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The Gold Rush 1925
What to say? Does this film count as a Western? No matter. This is the OG; it all started here. Chaplin as the Little Tramp moves into the frame and never stops, and neither does this film. Hilarious and breathtaking from start to finish.
Watched this film as part of a “kids” movie series at Bologna’s Modernissimo Cinema with my daughter, wife and parents.
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