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The Misfits 1961
Marilyn Monroe can't help but infatuate every man she comes across in this movie (which is definitely more of a curse than a blessing), but I never found myself enthralled in her or her story. There's a ton of star power both in front of and behind the camera here, but somehow Eli Wallach's performance is the only one that moved me. The loss and heartbreak that makes these characters "misfits" was never particularly familiar to me and neither Monroe nor Clark Gable's performances really elucidated them.
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Five Easy Pieces 1970
Was surprised when I realized I had never seen this before, and then equally surprised upon watching it to discover that it was a Wes Anderson movie some 30 years before Wes Anderson movies existed. (Note: not talking about Anderson's extremely manicured sets and camera frames here so much as the family of eccentric geniuses and turtleneck sweater/corduroy jacket/wool-lined coat outfits.)
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One Foot in Hell 1960
This movie kept surprising me, starting with the fact that Alan Ladd looks like an aged, puffy Howdy-Doody doll, but ends up being a cold-blooded motherfucker. It starts as a tragic Western but careens through revenge, anti-hero, gangster, and ensemble heist genres. Probably not really a "good" movie but I found myself enjoying it.
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BlacKkKlansman 2018
I thought the film functioned well on two levels: it was an entertaining and suspenseful undercover cop movie; and it was an unflinching look at American racism, both in its open and banal manifestation (the Klan) as well as the insidious, institutional variety (the police department Stallworth and Zimmerman are working within). Of course, the conflict of a movie is always a little more interesting when the "bad guy" is slightly sympathetic and nuanced, but that was never going to…
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