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Make Me Famous 2021
Being an artist is hard. Being a starving artist, literally subsidizing one's nutritional intake on free, cheap wine at parties, and living with tumor-infested rats crawling around the room, is very hard. That's the portrait weaved by filmmaker Brian Vincent in "Make Me Famous" as he charts the existence of New York artist Edward Brezinski toiling away in the bowels of mid 1970's and early 80's New York City.... yes right in the heart of the city's dilapidated wallow of ruin after being told to "drop dead".
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The Alamo 1960
I suppose I'm un-American. I don't like John Wayne. I don't like his acting style. I'm not a fan of most of his films. And "The Alamo", a film in which he directed, hasn't changed my opinion. Drawn out to unenjoyable length, drained with just about every milquetoast western standard in Hollywood, and a cast that tips the "yerfella" scales of childish impersonations of rough and tumble playacting, the film lumbers through into an action finale that's more clumsy than involving. Wayne does a much better job 8 years later with "The Green Berets", but "The Alamo" is painful.
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Woman in the Dunes 1964
Teshigahara’s first big international success, garnering several Oscar noms and winning a prize at Cannes that year, “Woman In the Dunes” is a heavily metaphoric venture into the weird domestic world of an insect researcher becoming involved with a woman living in a sand dune. The setting is claustrophobic… the camera work is filled with intense close ups of skin, dirt and sweat. Thematically and visually, one can sense Teshigahara evolving as a filmmaker, but the story itself failed to…
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The Professor 1986
Been looking for this one for years. Guisuippe Tornatore's debut film stars Ben Gazzara as a mafia chief who rises to prominence behind bars and then takes control of the Naples 'cammorista' upon escaping. Lots of events and facts are compressed into almost 3 hours (culled from the original length of 5-6 hours as an intended TV miniseries) and it does feel long in the tooth at times, but its stark and ugly representation of violence and the role of…
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