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Manhandled 1924
Gloria Swanson, decked out in dark lipstick and a flapper bob, chain-chewing gum, works as a salesgirl in a department store. We see what it’s like for her to live in a man’s world—the small indignities of a subway ride, for example, where men’s hands are all over her. She’s physically very funny in these moments. Even with her effortless cool, she is intimidated by the society people at a party she attends. She ditches her gum when someone tells…
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Greed 1924
I powered through a public domain, somewhat poor-quality version of the 2ish hour cut with no music, untinted on YouTube. This might be the first feature length silent film I’ve watched in literal silence, but every version I found had horrendous, completely unsynched music playing under it. Maybe I should've waited until I found a better print or read the book, but I got greedy.
The movie starts with a guy pushing carts in a gold mine. He is gentle…
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things 2020
my forehead hurts.
I think my eyes understood this movie, I think my soul might’ve even been able to follow it, but my brain is completely lost.Translated from by -
Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Very clearly the product of two people who love animation (as confirmed by the Daniels’ appearance on The Movies that Made Me podcast), but unlike the great works of that medium, which, though often marketed to children, still take their audience seriously enough to speak to them as if they were intelligent, serious beings, this movie addresses its adult audience with the kind of repetitiveness and obviousness often reserved for conversations with children. The ambitions of its premise are weighed…
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