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  Oh, Canada 2024

  Watched 14 Dec 2024

  I was pleasantly surprised to run into Ben & Carmel at this Siskel screening.

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  Aprile 1998

  Rewatched 23 Apr 2024

  Worth watching every April, as the title implies

Popular reviews

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  Alice in the Cities 1974

  Watched 12 Dec 2023

  This movie gave me the same desolate feeling as the work of another postwar German of Wenders’s generation with an eye for the destruction inherent in modernity: WG Sebald. I tried to find a connection between Sebald and this specific film online, but my first search only came up with a 2001 newsletter from UC Berkeley’s German department, which shows the department hosted both a Sebald reading and a screening of this film in October, 2001. I love this kind…

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  Belle de Jour 1967

  Watched 21 Feb 2024

  35mm at Siskel with Ben

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