Favorite films

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  Midnight 1939

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 09 Feb 2025

  This club has everything:

  -Brackett/Wilder script
  -Mitchell Leisen direction
  -Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Mary Astor
  -Paris
  -Chateau Shenanigans
  -Hedda Hopper! Monty Woolley!
  -layers of screwball deception
  -“Gowns by Irene”
  -a tight 94 minutes

  Repeat viewings do not disappoint- probably my favorite screwball comedy!

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  Susan Slept Here 1954

  ★★★ Watched 25 Dec 2024

  Well, this was SOMETHING.

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  The Holdovers 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Dec 2023

  If I hadn’t already known that this movie was made precisely for my spirit, the inclusion of “The Wind” by Cat Stevens (see also: ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET) would’ve cinched it right then and there.

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  Maestro 2023

  ★★ Watched 21 Dec 2023

  All of the *aCtInG* in this film could not convince me that it knew much or cared to reveal anything about Leonard Bernstein as an artist or even as a person!

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