I’ve avoided this since I was a teenager but dang, I was missing out. I can trace the line from this to Freaks and Geeks; some scenes, situations, and characters seemed almost be interchangeable between the two. Looking forward to rewatching this.
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Assignment Terror 1970
Grateful for this introduction to Paul Naschy’s Count Waldemar Daninsky: the brooding, sympathetic werewolf. I could imagine napping through the rest of his movies if they are equally plodding and silly. I also enjoyed the Frankenstein’s monster with closed eyes and the monitors in the lab that mostly showed closeups of the monsters’ heads.
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The Breakfast Club 1985
This whole movie felt like Daniel Desario’s speech about how he got held back.
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The Savages 2007
The Savages was much more gentle and sweet than I expected. When this came out, I remember the marketing made me file this away with the flood of mediocre dark and quirky indies that came out in the 2000s that I avoided. I just saw Slums of Beverly Hills in the past year so I didn’t know Tamara Jenkins, but I feel like my love of Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman should have merited a watch by now. Everything was really well done-great soundtrack, beautiful cinematography, complex characters. There’s also a good essay about Hoffman’s performance on the Criterion website.
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