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  An Autumn Afternoon 1962

  Watched 30 Sep 2024

  Not a tragedy, but nobody here is especially happy with the way life turned out. Beautiful film.

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  The Shout 1978

  Watched 08 Jan 2024

  Warning for people with families or roommates: the actual shout itself is eighteen hundred million times louder than the dialogue.

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  Mank 2020

  Watched 04 Dec 2020 1

  Heavily fictionalized according to everyone except Pauline Kael and the subject himself. The nonstop bon mots and mono mix were good but is there any cinematographer less interested in the human face? Put some light and contrast on the actor's expressions because this movie is about them, not your instagram account. Defenders of underlit images always cite Gordon Willis or Sven Nykvist but those images actually drew your eyes to the actor. Any random shot from a by-the-book 20th-century studio…

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  Milkwater 2020

  Watched 30 May 2020 1

  Delightful! Writer/Director Morgan Ingari is an exciting new talent! This is the Michael Jordan of surrogacy dramedies! I'm sorry I said dramedy! I hear it's the "moist" of blurb portmanteaus! But I'm not looking for a movie that takes itself too seriously! Or too goofily! I'm looking for a Milkwater! Saw this wonderful independent film at the Brooklyn Film Festival, which is now in Queens! Or McMurdo Station! Or wherever your computer is! My ticket was $0! Molly Bernard and Patrick Breen are great! Everybody is great! Except for the brief offscreen voice of college drinker Bobb Barito. He was terrific!

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