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The Night Porter 1974
Few films about war or the Holocaust are this honest. Also: the much better version of Past Lives.
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A Woman Under the Influence 1974
How did Gena Rowland not win an Oscar for this? Portrait of a trapped, kind of manically psychotic woman in a family that doesn’t allow her to be human and beats her into playing the narrow role of mother. She ends up a complete prisoner. Is she mentally ill or would anyone go crazy if your only achievement in life was to be mom and you’re anxiously attached to a husband who doesn’t understand you and, persecuted by the idea…
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Excess Baggage 1997
Great date night fluff. It was funny to watch this 27 years after its release. Came for Alicia and Benicio, stayed also for Christopher (and Harry Connick Jr.! - my mother had such a crush on him). And Benicio, of course, who was playing his romantic lead like jazz. If he hadn’t played all the unstressed beats with such charm, it wouldn’t have worked. What was interesting to me given the cultural shift in America made since was how evenly…
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