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  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  • Insiang
  • El Sur
  • The Fiancés

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  • It Happened One Night

    ★★★★

  • Everybody Wants Some!!

    ★★★★★

  • The American Friend

    ★★★★★

  • Caught by the Tides

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  • Licorice Pizza

    Licorice Pizza

    ★★★★½

    Feature length version of the Journey Through the Past scene in Inherent Vice

  • Infinite Football

    Infinite Football

    ★★★★½

    A new way of playing football.

    Octagonal field. Four parts on the field. Players divided into sub-teams. Midfielders can’t cross the halfway line. A new off-side line. Wait, maybe no off-side line. Actually, three lines in one half so six parts on the field. A more horizontal game.

    Romanian bureaucrat Laurenţiu Ginghină explains the rules of his Futebol 2.0 numerous times; each time realizing the impracticality and constraints of his current system, and immediately chooses to rectify them and re-explain…

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  • The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh

    The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh

    "The night is cool and safe. I want to sit quietly in this cockpit and let the realization of my complete flight sink in. It's like... struggling up a mountain after a rare flower and then you have it within arms reach, realizing the satisfaction and the happiness lie more in the finding than the plucking."

    In Peter Biskind's My Lunches with Orson , Henry Jaglom interviews Welles over a decade, who talks about a multitude of subjects and a…

  • Romance of a Fruit Peddler

    Romance of a Fruit Peddler

    ★★★★

    Laborer's Love/Romance of the Fruit Peddler is the only surviving film from the three comedic shorts that Mingxing Film Company made in 1922.

    There is a reason why we have an intertitle stating that the fruit peddler was a carpenter prior to his current profession. The early Chinese films were heavily influenced by the turbulent political scenario in their midst be it Lianhua Film Company's portrayal of class struggles in their series of 1930s silent films or in this case,…

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