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  8½ 1963

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Jan 2025

  A really cool film that would be well worth a revisit here and there down the road. The surreal approach Fellini uses to dissect Guido as a man is incredible as we follow him through life, memories and dreams through deft experimental camerawork.

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  Roma 2018

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Jan 2025

  A surprising Netflix entry as their “products” don’t often come in such a singular package. Smartly, they give Alfonso Cuaron and his team complete control to craft a black and white film based off his childhood memories. The project had its payoff as it resulted in a windfall of academy awards, thus breaking ground for the streaming service companies.

  What Alfonso creates is a refreshing artistic achievement of technical and visual brilliance as it has not one bit of today’s…

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  Dìdi (弟弟) 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Jan 2025

  Impressively relatable for all the cringe reasons of being, not only just a teenager, but a second generation [immigrant American] teenager during the 00s and the advent of social media. However, the true heartbeat of the film is not the nostalgia but the brilliantly executed story.

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  Saturday Night 2024

  ★★★ Watched 07 Jan 2025

  The cast is loaded with talent and does an outstanding job. The set and sound design are engrossing.

  Despite the fine acting, the runtime feels long nor is it an incredibly compelling telling of SNLs first episode ever. The story is simple enough. We see a young, ambitious Lorne Michaels determined to get his new show to air, which is ever threatened to unravel by numerous external and internal factors. The plot is steeped in frenetic energy as minute by…

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