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  Hospital 1970

  Watched 03 Mar 2025

  Contains one of cinema’s all-time great vomit scenes

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  Last Year at Marienbad 1961

  Watched 17 Jan 2025

  Like Delphine Seyrig, I spent the movie asking myself "wait, have I been here before?" (It turns out that *two* palaces were used in the filming, one of which I'd been to and the other of which I hadn't.)

  Something about the music and the sound of the guy's voice made this movie hard for me to enjoy, though.

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  Raising Arizona 1987

  Rewatched 08 Mar 2024

  Second 1987 Nick Cage film this week, after Moonstruck. In addition to being the year two of his best films came out, it's also the year he turned 23.

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  Pepi, Luci, Bom 1980

  Watched 06 Jan 2024

  Most of what I got out of this came from the shock value of seeing all these scenes and knowing they were filmed so soon after the Franco era ended. Filming started in 1978, three years after he died and one year after the ensuing elections. Otherwise it's just Almodóvar doing his thing, but it's neat that that's been going on for about as long as the modern Spanish state has existed.

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