Sometimes when I regularly revisit favorite films, each viewing experience is a bit of a pendulum swing: I'll watch one time and be disappointed it's not quite as great as I've built it up in my head, and it drops in my esteem. Then the next time I watch, I'll have my expectations lowered at the start as a result, but remember as I watch why I loved it in the first place, reaffirming it as a favorite. Rinse and…
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Charade 1963
Charade is Stanley Donen's glossy, gender-flipped North by Northwest with an extra squeeze from the screwball lemon for a nice finish. It's lovely to look at, both because of the outrageously attractive stars in their world-class wardrobes and because of the saturated Parisian cinematography by Charles Lang. The screenplay starts a hair slow, but builds and builds steam; all the double-crosses in the second half are quite a bit of fun (in part because every one gets an Audrey Hepburn…
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A Christmas Carol 1971
Richard Williams' 1971 Oscar-winning short is an astonishing adaptation, animated with beautiful, pencil-drawn grace and showcasing the creepier side of the story.
Some of the moments here have never been depicted like this before. Marley's jaw dangles, unhinged, with all the fright described in the text. The ghost-hearse races up the stairs. The Ghost of Christmas Past flickers and shapeshifts.
The sets are shadowy and starkly angled; the graves at the cemetery in Christmas Future sprout like a horrid fungus…
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