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  Noon Wine 1966

  ★★★★ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  At Home - YouTube

  I had seen this before in B&W in a lower quality transfer bur after an enthralling conversation between myself, LB user @Snax and author Frank Hazard at the Russian Baths yesterday about Katherine Anne Porter (as Hazard notes, the *only* female writer worth reading) I was delighted to see the original color version found its way onto YouTube.

  Peckinpah is very faithful to the text which suits him well. Themes of isolation pass from Helton to…

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  Amarcord 1973

  ★★★½ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  Metrograph - 35mm

  Very funny, fairly horny. So, it is Italian.

  Nino Rota score is great and I remembered it the moment the film started. I also recalled how much A Christmas Story borrowed from this.

Popular reviews

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  Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band 2019

  ★★ Watched 23 Feb 2020 3

  IFC Center - DCP

  Behind the Music+

  Recycled footage and interviews tell Robbie's story. I am a huge fan of The Band and have been for as long as I can remember. I read Levon's book when I was a teenager and read Robbie's recent Testimony almost as soon as it hit shelves but the lack of a Garth Hudson interview and the fact that Rick Danko, Richard Manuel and Levon Helm are dead allows the filmmakers and Robbie to…

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  Uncut Gems 2019

  ½ Watched 29 Dec 2019 24

  At Home - DVD

  This was INSANE.
  This was CRAZY.
  SO much tension.
  The Weeknd.
  Sandler is GOD.
  Julia Fox is going to be a star.
  The score is mesmerizing!
  This was like being at shul!
  It took 10 years to make this movie!
  The research that went into recreating the diamond district!

  Did I miss any of the default positive reviews after manipulation from press agents? Don't think so.

  Anyways, this movie was complete piece of trash, I absolutely hated it.