Dogville59

Dogville59

Favorite films

  • Rome, Open City
  • Battleship Potemkin
  • Come and See
  • Dogville

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  • The Watermelon Woman

    ★★★★

  • Fifth Avenue Girl

    ★★★★½

  • Desperately Seeking Susan

    ★★★★

  • Theodora Goes Wild

    ★★★★

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  • The Watermelon Woman

    The Watermelon Woman

    ★★★★

    Watermelon Woman is original in its style of editing kind of a documentary, personal narrative, fictional drama all in one. The editing, cinematography and feel bounces between professional looking and amateur looking from grainy home video type scenes to non-grainy better shot scenes. I did not read too much about this film before watching it. I kept googling the people mentioned such as Martha Page, and the names of films. This is a movie about a woman who wants to…

  • Fifth Avenue Girl

    Fifth Avenue Girl

    ★★★★½

    I like older films where the dialogue is witty and fast and Fifth Avenue Girl satisfies in that domain. Ginger Rogers is great as the working class girl who is hired by a rich business tycoon to work at his home. It is his birthday and his family says nothing as his wife is cheating on him, his daughter is partying and his son is off at a polo competition. There is also a family driver who spouts Marxist, Communist…