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A Fish Called Wanda 1988
It's so rare to find a comedy that hits on every single level (vulgarity, absurdity, dialogue, slapstick, comic reversal, etc).
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The Bad and the Beautiful 1952
Ayn Rand got her start as a script doctor under DeMille. I couldn't help thinking that Kirk Douglas's character - the iconoclastic, uncompromising producer Jonathan Shields - was the sort of character Rand would've written if she weren't between her two big doorstopper novels at the time.
Dick Powell sleepwalks through his role, and Lana Turner ducks critiques of being wooden by being cast as a wooden actress. But the flashback format is ingenious. It works better than it should…
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The Shadow 1994
Vintage 90s racism passing as vintage 30s racism, but it's a fun reminder of what superhero movies used to feel like before MCU Phase 2.
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Paris, Texas 1984
The conversation between PARIS, TEXAS (written by Sam Shepard) and "Coyote" (written by Joni Mitchell about Sam Shepard) is the conversation between a free-spirited young woman and an older man mediated by a screen and years of distance and a trick of the light about a love they once shared but couldn't keep.
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