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The Killers 1946
A noir I'll probably never watch again, but boldly and flashily shot and with memorable appearances from some of the 1940s' weirdest character actors. Burt Lancaster, in an early role, doesn't yet have the skill or the creative latitude to make the kinds of singular, arresting choices he'll be making in just a few years, and Edmond O'Brien doesn't have much to work with and doesn't make much of what he has. Ava Gardner kills it, though.
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Elmer Gantry 1960
This could have been a solid black comedy, but it's elevated to near-perfection by the performances -- anchored by an extra-incredible Burt Lancaster, who never does something normal when he can do something weird. He's never weird for its own sake either; he has the knack of creating the entire guy behind every bit. In this film, he does more with his teeth than most actors can do with their eyes.
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Three Colours: Blue 1993
I might have just become the only person on earth who's currently mad at the late Vincent Canby. I'm obsessed enough with Blue to have looked up some contemporary reviews, only to find that Canby in the Times thought this was a pretentious film about a too-perfect woman; it's actually a pretentious film about a talented but troubled woman undergoing a radical experiment in erasing all human connections, and failing in interesting ways! I would a million times rather watch…
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