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  Capote 2005

  ★★★ Watched 11 Sep 2024

  Forget the questions of mannerisms, voice, caricature. What Hoffman really captured here was the being of a writer. Hiscurious, open to people and the world, observant and insightful, with a capacity for wonder. Yet hie also hard and discerning, jealous of his material, with all the arrogance of insecurity. The painful, perhaps shameful, way Capote treats Smith is wrenching to watch yet perhaps also too simple: it would be interesting to look into the ways that Perry might also have…

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  Amadeus 1984

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 20 Jul 2024

  What beauty. Its structure is so perfect, which is why it’s so often been parodied (mostly lovingly.) You don’t mind the exposition that tells you what is lovable about Mozart’s music. Perhaps it’s because all its charm and longing already has its hooks in you. Perhaps we actually enjoy it more with Salieri as our guide. He has unwittingly become Mozart’s greatest fan. He intimately knows all the graceful, ineffable qualities that he himself can never reach as a composer.…

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  Edward II 1991

  ★★★★½ Added

  All the queer glory I expected. Is this the most femme Tilda Swinton has ever looked on screen? Annie Lennox's version of "Every Time We Say Goodbye" was incredibly poignant, and maybe the best performance of Cole Porter on screen.

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  What's Up, Doc? 1972

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Aug 2023

  It all runs on Streisand's charisma, which is considerable. She's virtually impossible to look away from, and Kahn is pitch-perfect. As an exercise in making a live-action cartoon, it's pretty spot-on. You couldn't ask for more than that final chase scene. It just wasn't quite possible for me to forget about Bringing Up Baby and wish I was watching that instead.

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