With a big caveat that as someone not used to watching feature-length silent film, this *felt* more like an academic exercise than a typical movie-watching experience for me. The version I saw had been restored using a variety of sources, the B&W reels toned in different colors and interstitials re-created with typefaces to match as closely to the originals as possible. So, like, immersion in it was tricky for me personally. Nonetheless! The artistry is unavoidable and the mood-setting really effective.…
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Mr. Deeds inherits a ton of money and immediately gets branded a loony for having the audacity to give it all away to people who actually need it in a story that is partly an indictment of the press and partly a socialist parable. The journalist villain-cum-lover named Babe Bennet betrays his trusting nature and his need for connection, falling for him as she files features damning his naïveté as debauchery. He just plays his big blasting tuba, blows money,…
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The Paper 1994
The greatest New York journalism movie ever made, hands down. Laugh out loud funny, full of heart, committed to the truth at all costs, and features both a short man attacking a very tall man and a separate fight scene between Michael Keaton and Glenn Close. It's a rewarding rewatch, full of jokes and asides I missed on the first run years ago.
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