Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Designing Woman 1957

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Dec 2023

  Where are the 5-star reviews? Are people confused about what this is?

  There are fantastic costumes (Helen Rose) and choreographies, but we don't get to see the musical in detail. It is only in the background because something much more important is going on: this is a great screwball comedy in gorgeous technicolor (John Alton), with husbands hiding in bedrooms being harassed by dogs reminding me very much of The Awful Truth.

  The color play in the musical number where Dolores Gray is introduced is mind blowing.

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  The Prize 1963

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Nov 2023 4

  In the subcategory Hitchcockian movies with Paul Newman, I like the Prize better than Torn Curtain.

Popular reviews

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  Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991

  ★★★★½ Watched 21 Dec 2022

  "Orson Welles tried to make Heart of Darkness in 1939, but he made Citizen Kane instead"
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  "Francis Ford Coppola tried to make Heart of Darkness in 1969, but he made The Godfather Part 1 & 2 instead"

  I think more people should try to make Heart of Darkness and do something else instead...

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  The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970

  ★★★★½ Watched 05 Dec 2019

  The word "danger" is just not in Sam Dalma's dictionary. "Let's follow the guy who was chasing me with a gun and tried to shoot me, literally half a minute before." I like it when rationality has to make way for style.