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The 3 Penny Opera 1931
Watching this disappointing film, shortly after seeing a somewhat disappointing stage production put on by a Chicago area musical theater company which is usually excellent, I've come to the conclusion that, for whatever reason, Threepenny is a property that's hard to do right. That the only NYC production I've seen, many years ago off-off Broadway, was also pretty meh, and that I'm hard-pressed to remember any critically acclaimed revivals in recent decades, confirms this impression.
Threepenny has one of the…
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L'Amour fou 1969
*Note: I saw this on YouTube in a crappy VHS print, so in a sense I feel like I still haven't see the "real" movie. Therefore, this rating should be considered provisional until I see it as it should be seen: in 35mm or a high-quality digital transfer.
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