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  Arabian Nights 1974

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Feb 2025

  One of these guys looks like Luigi Mangione.

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  DumbLand 2001

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Feb 2025

  Twin Peaks: The Return had stood out to me as one of these examples of an older auteur who was as interested in advancing the medium as they were in pulling from classical influences (in Lynch's case, mostly 40s/50s, but occasionally reaching back further into the silent era); as opposed to a lot of the younger auteurs with similar interest in the history of cinema, where it ends up feeling more like pastiche with little new to say. And it's…

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  Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham 2001

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Sep 2020

  I always enjoy seeing England depicted in Bollywood movies because (a) they tend to treat British culture with a certain amount of ridicule and contempt; and (b) they're generally about 100 times more cinematic than 90% of the films we make here.

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  Befikre 2016

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Jul 2021 1

  Something really interesting about this being released the same year as Ae Dil Hai Mushkil as they seem to be on very similar wavelengths. The biggest difference is how Johar indulges in the complicated melodrama of the relationship, while Chopra tends to undercut it, returning more to a comic register—though even that tendency feels pointed in its own way. I can see why audiences would be disappointed by both films—there's a kind of empty malaise to the whole ordeal(s); the…

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