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City of Angels 1998
On paper this shouldn’t work – a schmaltzy Hollywood remake of a celebrated arthouse staple directed by the dude who did CASPER a few years before (you can almost hear the boardroom meeting where the Warner execs are like “Brad Silberling’s our man, he just gets the afterlife!”). I think what CITY OF ANGELS really gets right, though, is giving form and focus to Wenders’ stream of consciousness ideas from WINGS OF DESIRE – giving flesh and feeling to the…
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Little Darlings 1980
I can’t stress this enough to the younger generation: Food fights were a very serious thing in the eighties. You’d have a birthday party and there was a real threat that the Domino’s that your mother ordered or the Pepsi float that you made could end up thrown at that annoying dude Mason, because at any moment a war could ignite. We didn’t really know why, nobody wanted to clean it up and it was gross getting ketchup and shit…
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White Christmas 1954
Sad tragedy of two gay infantrymen who are forced into heteronormative domesticity in order to keep their love for song and dance viable in '50s era Vermont.
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