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Brief Encounter 1945
The characters do not, at any point, encounter briefs in the film. I want my money back!
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Rope 1948
I'd be lying if I told you I didn't find Jimmy Stewart's "change of heart" to be a bit abrupt and ad hoc. And although the film's themes are interesting for what they are, if you've read Crime and Punishment they're nothing you've haven't seen done better before.
Nevertheless, this is a very impressive feat of thriller filmmaking in the way Hitchcock is able to simultaneously create the impression of one long take (racketing up the tension as you wonder…
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Pacific Overtures 1976
Not gonna give this a rating, since it isn't a really a film, but a pro-shot of a broadway musical. However, I felt that this would be worth logging here, since it's likely my favourite musical.
Stephen Sondheim's score is nothing short of a masterpiece. What we have here is a narrative about the industrialization/Americanization of Japan in the 1800s, set to music that combines Eastern classical music with Western broadway-style songwriting, giving it a thematically poignant sense of being…
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The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928
The main reason I watch movies (or any form of art, really), is because I’m curious about what it might be like to live in someone else’s mind. Although I'm a music person first and foremost, film might have an advantage over other art forms in this regard, because it's able to combine the more direct sensory experience of hearing with the more "abstracting" experience of seeing, cultimating in something that can approximate the first-person phenomenon of a thought or…
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