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Monte Carlo 1930
One of Lubitsch’s Jeanette McDonald musicals, and not much else, really. A pleasing diversion, but the sound recording - as in "Love Me Tonight" - doesn't do the great actress any favors, nor does being paired up with Jack Buchanan, with whom she has zero chemistry, and who's not nearly as effervescent or interesting as he needs to be.
Not a dud per se, as it has plenty of screwball merit - Her wild roulette loss! Claud Allister's saucy opening…
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Forrest Gump 1994
Ollie seemed to really enjoy this. Summer took this opportunity to tell me how much of a snob she thought I was back in 1995 when we first met (and I was quite down on the film), and then indicated - after Ollie left the room - that I was 100% right and "Forrest Gump" was, in fact, not a good film. She sounded off on "Here" as well, another film I found somewhat easy to give myself over to,…
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Pumpkin 2002
Or, Character Arc: The Movie. (Okay, the smugness is out of the way). Joking aside, Pumpkin defies something that obvious. It's like an after school special played as satire. It's like a teen flick bathed in the attention to detail and sensibility usually reserved for Merchant and Ivory. It's like Beauty and the Beast with no agenda. It's like a movie Todd Solondz might make if he'd grow the hell up. It's like, surprisingly remarkable.
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Julius Caesar 1953
Julius Caesar is absolutely enthralling for the first hour or so. The plotting, the murder, the long speeches - - all of it staged with such electricity, such passion and such integrity. The play drops off after Brutus and Cassius leave Rome and Marc Anthony and Octavius begin pursuing them; Mankiewicz seems to lose steam, too - everything becomes drab and endless: The quarrels in the tent, the lame excuse for an ambush, the mountaintop finale(s). Nevertheless, the film itself…
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