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A Little Romance 1979
Some pleasures are sufficiently pure that commentary becomes superfluous. I was so delighted by this movie that at times I almost cried.
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Vertigo 1958
At some point in your vertiginous descent into cinephilia, you may have encountered Alfred Hitchcock's remarks to François Truffaut about the meaning of the scene in Vertigo where Judy emerges from the bathroom. He says:
The sex-psychological side was when she came back from having her hair made blonde, and it wasn't up. This means she has stripped, but won't take her knickers off. You see? She says 'alright,' and she goes into the bathroom, and he is waiting. He's…
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Arrival 2016
A species that measures out its life with coffee spoons meets a species that communicates with coffee stains, hilarity ensues. Villeneuve understands himself well enough as a filmmaker to know that he's incapable of creating scenes that elicit or recall any human emotions beyond anxiety and dread, and so leaves the heavy lifting of the tear jerker parts of this movie to Max Richter's "On the Nature of Daylight", the "Adagio for Strings" of earnest millennial nihilists. I guarantee you…
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