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My Girlfriend Sybille 1967
Alright. Well, if you’ve ever been curious about where strongly pro-Russian propaganda and “comedy” might intersect, Meine Freundin Sybille is, um, an attempt at that.
For reasons unexplained, Hurtig (Rolf Herricht) is asked to substitute in as a tour guide for a group of East Germans as they boat around the Black Sea. Never mind that Hurtig apparently has no experience being a tour guide (“comedy”). Most of the group is filled with whiny older people, notably Frau Mücke (Helga…
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American Visa 2005
”They can go to hell with their visa at the embassy. I don’t give a fuck, I’ve got MasterCard!”
Both of the films I’d seen previously from writer-director Juan Carlos Valdivia have been preoccupied with Bolivian cultural identity. This is, as well, although he’s tackled that idea much differently here.
Mario (Demián Bichir) is a university professor who absolutely loves America. And it isn’t so much that he wants to fly there or see sights, he wants to be an…
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Aria 1987
If you like opera and bare breasts, here’s your movie.
Ten segments made by ten different directors, all set to and inspired by different (and sometimes multiple) arias from eight different composers. You got all that? You’ll want a notepad for this one. I’m not going to go through every piece of music and each composer, or even the actors in each story, because it’s too much and you can click here for that. What I am going to do,…
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Twilight Zone: The Movie 1983
I was raised in part by my lawyer father, so I know there are certain things I can and cannot say.
So here is what I cannot say. I cannot say that John Landis showed extreme recklessness in the decapitation deaths of actor Vic Morrow and non-professional child actor My-ca Le, as well as the crushing death of non-professional child actor Renee Chen, while shooting this film. I cannot say that, because that is not what was ultimately decided in…
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