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  The Monkey 2025

  ★ Added

  some Quigley-level writing right here

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  Nomadland 2020

  ★★★ Added

  The classiest Amazon commercial ever made.

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  Sequences 1982

  ★★★★½ Added

  This is a meta-movie, a movie about making a movie, being also another, more direct commentary on the Romanian cinema. Surprisingly, it wasn’t banned.

  The picture is divided into three independent parts/sequences, the only link tying them together being the making of a film. The first part contains a scene filmed with actors and common people, with a hidden camera, without the knowledge of the amateurs. In the second part, the film crew is trying to get to a remote…

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  Microphone Test 1980

  ★★★★½ Added

  The young TV cameraman Nelu Stroe (Mircea Daneliuc) falls in love with a young woman, Anişoara “Ani” Covete (Tora Vasilescu), whom he meets during a lineup for a Romanian communist version of 60 minutes (a reporter-centered investigation Romanian TV show that exposed the “bad elements of the socialist society” for insignificant “crimes,” such as traveling on a train without a ticket, as was the case with Ani). Ani “is not a serious person” – she doesn’t have a job, she’s…

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