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  Step Up 3D 2010

  Rewatched 22 Mar 2025

  If only I still had a working 3D TV. This film is a trip in stereo.

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  L'Argent 1983

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  "Fuck this shit." - Robert Bresson, I'm guessing

Popular reviews

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  Funeral Parade of Roses 1969

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 18 Mar 2025

  I did use the word “mindfuck” to prepare my students for this beautiful and bizarre film. I was a little worried my disc might not work, so I brought next week's movie (Nausicaa) as a backup. What a different screening that would have been.

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★ Watched 08 Jan 2025

  Most important thing I “learned” from this movie is that Pete Seeger’s wife was Japanese.

  Pleasantly surprised. But I went in with dirt-low expectations. As a 60s-80s rock nerd, I tend to hate music biopics, and several people whose taste I respect had little good to say about this. The movie basically feels like a competent adaptation of a Broadway jukebox musical. That might sound like an insult, but it’s not meant to be. (Jersey Boys the musical is a…

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