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Funny Face 1957

★★★½ Rewatched 03 Jan 2025

Cast anyone other than Fred Astaire as Avery and the whole thing would fall apart like a poorly-constructed souffle. I find my affection for this movie--the cast! the cinematography! Paris, shining in my ever so American imagination like the green light at the end of Daisy's dock!--in conflict with my dislike for the music and a nagging feeling that the central romance only really works because of Astaire and Hepburn's chemistry.
Sunset Boulevard 1950

★★★★ Rewatched 17 Dec 2024

I think I liked it less this go-round, for reasons that have nothing to do with the actual content of the movie and everything to do with me: I had it on as more or less background noise and I'm kind of tired of movies that are nihilistic about Hollywood. Or blithely celebratory of Hollywood. In any case, a well-executed, even masterful piece, bleak and ironic. Swanson is the main attraction in one of the all-time great diva performances (and…

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