Quite the companion piece to Paris is Burning. More poetic, but equally as interesting and relevant.
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Mysteries of Lisbon 2010
Watched over two days because of the length. I really enjoyed the first 90 minutes, but after that the story became far too engineered around coincidence and convenience. I applaud the ambition, but the result didn’t warrant 4.5 hours of my time.
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The Birth of a Nation 1915
January 6, 2021: violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol Building
January 9, 2021: I watch The Birth of a Nation
Also January 9, 2021: Yeah, everything makes sense now.
I know D.W. Griffith's epic retelling of the Civil War and Reconstruction is groundbreaking trash, but watching it immediately after what happened in Washington, D.C. gives you a startling perspective on the level of white victimhood that's been peddled ever since the ink was drying at the Appomattox Court House. (It's…
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My Fair Lady 1964
Well, nobody is likable in this farce. Not sexist, egotistic, classist Professor Higgins, and he is classist if he insists that one's voice determines one's prospects.
Not Colonel Pickering for accepting the wager, making him complicit in this shit sandwich.
Not Eliza Doolittle for being party to this experiment and complaining in her awful Cockney every step of the way.
Not her father Alfred, who is more interested in making five quid than being a good parent.
It's hard to…
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