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The Last Picture Show 1971
I’d always thought of Last Picture Show as a coming-of-age story about teens in early ‘50s Texas. And it is that — but it’s also a story of of two middle-aged women whose dreams were thwarted by the limits of the age.
Not for nothing this film also contains one of the stranger skinny dipping scenes in cinema, featuring Randy Quaid of all people. Don’t tell the Hollywood star whackers!
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All We Imagine as Light 2024
A quiet, beautiful film that documents the lives of three nurses in Mumbai. Young, free-spirited Anu is in love with a Muslim man, but her parents would disapprove of their relationship; they're meanwhile trying to match her up with someone else. Prabha, her colleague at the hospital and roommate, pines for her husband, who has moved to Germany and ceased contacting her. When he sends her a rice cooker as a gift, she cradles it as if it were a…
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Ghost 1990
What struck me most watching this film after a 35 years wasn't the palatial Soho loft that Sam and Molly share or how menacing they make Willie Lopez look. The "grim reaper" effects when the bad guys die are so goddamn cheesy and cheap-looking that it made me burst out laughing.
But, whatever. Whoopi Goldberg is hilarious and Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore are hot, and for all of its manifest plot problems (a random scammy psychic in Brooklyn can…
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