The cat fish really was looking like a reference image for Alice in Wonderland?
Really great animation, and credit for the depiction of ocean pollution. A cute rec for early technicolor film.
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The Little Goldfish 1939
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 2006
logging it every time because... touchstone American cinema
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The Good Lord Bird 2020
Can’t recommend this enough. Spike Lee meets Quintin Tarantino with superb acting. Ethan Hawke gives such an incredible performance and fully embraces his role as John Brown. I appreciated how the differing perspectives regarding Browns morality and sanity were presented, especially the debates and doubts within the abolitionist community.
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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1976
John Cassavetes is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Interesting to see this after watching A Woman Under the Influence (1974) which offers a painstakingly accurate portrait of a couple at odds in blue-collar suburbia. This time, rather than a couple in trouble, viewers are thrown into the gritty underworld of a nightclub owner whose misfortune catches up with him. What's remarkable is the jump Cassavetes makes intellectually, and thematically between the two films. Shifting from domestic doom to money…
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