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Favorite films

  • Casablanca
  • Love Streams
  • All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  • Fire of Love

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  • The Little Goldfish

  • Color Scales

    ★★½

  • Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

    ★★★★★

  • Norma Rae

    ★★★½

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  • The Good Lord Bird

    The Good Lord Bird

    ★★★★★

    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.

  • The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

    The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

    ★★★½

    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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