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Trouble in Paradise 1932
After yesterday’s blissful viewing at the Stanford Theatre, I had to watch it again at home this evening to make sure I wasn’t just super high (I had some gummies before the screening). It held up! In the words of Colet and Monescu, it was: marvelous, divine, wonderful, glorious, lovely.
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Design for Living 1933
Maybe the most pre-code pre-code movie I’ve ever seen. The kind of movie critics might call “rollicking” and you can’t even get annoyed cuz it’s true—this thing rollicks!
35mm, Stanford Theatre, double feature with TROUBLE IN PARADISE
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Yuck! 2024
Seeing this in a theater with 200 riveted elementary school students who squealed and shrieked with unanimous vigor like one giant squirming overstimulated creature with hundreds of mouths is up there on my list of great times at the cinema with bonkers enthusiastic audiences, alongside Arachnophobia in 1990, 8 Mile in 2002, and Girls Trip in 2017. The film itself is very cute and sweet and even looked pretty good for computer animation which I’m typically averse to.
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The Brutalist 2024
Great that a 3.5 hr serious picture for adults gets made anymore but I found this one bloated and tedious. The first half works much better than the second—shortly after the intermission we begin to suspect the juggler has thrown too many disparately shaped objects into the air and has no plan for how to catch them. The film is at its best when working as a parable of the relationship between artist and patron. This is meaty subject matter…
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