Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Unforgiven 1992

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  My review is lost : (

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  Farewell My Concubine 1993

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  I wasn’t sure how I felt immediately after I watched this one. Whatever I was expecting, this wasn’t quite that, and I could tell if I liked it, disliked, loved it, or all of those. Five days later, I’m pretty sure it’s a really good movie and that I liked it.

  Two things stood out to me. First, it was surprisingly similar to one of my all-time favorite movies, To Live. More on that in a bit. Also, I was…

Popular reviews

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  Casablanca 1942

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 14 Feb 2023

  I can't remember when I first saw Casablanca, but it's been a while since I've last seen it (maybe in the early days of movie night here, circa 2016), but this is as good as I remembered it, if not better.

  Like The Godfather, Casablanca is one of those rare films for me that capture the grandeur and legend of "Cinema" itself--this is the stuff movies are made of!

  I loved every second of it. I don't know that I've…

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  The Scarecrow 1920

  ★★★★★ Watched 10 Feb 2023

  I watched a Buster Keaton short with Layne as part of my preparation for introducing Sherlock Jr. at The Avalon in a few days. I'd never seen the one before (and wasn't even familiar with the title), but when Hannah mentioned that Dean had shown it to their class, I felt that I had to keep up with her.

  This is one of his best shorts. I loved it, more importantly, so did Layne. "The Scarecrow" isn't the best name…