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Sweet Smell of Success 1957
This film is at number 95 on this Time Out list of the hundred best films of all time that we've been dipping into.
Why?
It's really quite a bad film. Characters of no merit, dialogue that sometimes reaches snappy but often sits in the leaden cliché realm, and just general horribleness.
It's good for the scenes of New York, the crowd scenes in bars and restaurants, and yes, it has its moments. But overall, no, didn't do it for…
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A Complete Unknown 2024
This is a glorious film. A dramatised version of Bob Dylan's early years on the New York folk scene and ascent into fame.
He visits Woody Guthrie in hospital, where Pete Seeger just happens to be visiting too. Seeger takes Dylan under his wing, encouraging him to focus on folk music.
Clearly some liberties have been taken with the details of events, but it's all in service of the story.
Timothée Chalamet gives an incredible performance as Dylan, and Monica…
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Erin Brockovich 2000
I wouldn’t have expected that a film about someone fighting an evil corporation that is poisoning people could be so feelgood. But this achieves it.
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The Aviator's Wife 1981
Yet another in our Eric Rohmer fest. I think this might be my favourite of them so far. A guy follows a couple around Paris because the man is the (married) ex of his girlfriend, and he wants to know what the man — presumed to be the titular flier — is doing with the woman he's with (is she the titular spouse?), when he's supposed to have left the city.
Daft but fun, as usual.
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