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  Moontide 1942

  ★★★ Watched 26 Jan 2025

  This is an... odd movie. It's trying to do French poetic realism in Hollywood at the beginning of the noir era and it ends up being a weird blend of the two genres. It certainly works as a beautiful visual pastiche of the kind of films Jean Renoir and Marcel Carne were directing but the limits of the Hays Code really hamper that style, and I couldn't help but wonder what the Fritz Lang version would have been like.

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  Munich 2005

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Mar 2024 3

  Probably no other movie has so fully been able to communicate the way in which the establishment of the State of Israel has fundamentally fractured and transformed Jewish identity into something quite difficult to recognize.

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  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931

  ★★★★½ Watched 07 Oct 2023

  From both a technical and narrative perspective, this is just light years ahead of what Universal was doing with Dracula and Frankenstein in the same year. It's easy to see how Fredric March won an Oscar for this. Frankly Miriam Hopkins probably should have won something as well.

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  All That Heaven Allows 1955

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 18 Mar 2023

  The television scene is so utterly bleak and devastating that an evil little part of me wonders if this film should have ended with it. But of course how could it? Either way it's no surprise how influential this film has become.

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