Favorite films

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  Make Way for Tomorrow 1937

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Jun 2021

  “When you're seventeen and the world's beautiful, facing facts is just as slick fun as dancing or going to parties. But when you're seventy you don't care about dancing, you don't think about parties anymore and about the only fun you have left is pretending that there ain't any facts to face.”

  Leo McCarey’s most touching film that stands alone in a sea of movies that aren’t about old age. aging younger actors to put on a most sad show…

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  To Be or Not to Be 1942

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 22 Jul 2021 1

  "It's becoming ridiculous the way you grab attention. Whenever I start to tell a story, you finish it. If I go on a diet, you lose the weight. If I have a cold, you cough. And if we should ever have a baby, I'm not so sure I'd be the mother."

  there’s something about Lubitsch that i’ll never quite understand, he’s personal and has the ability to sway audiences, never crossing the line he always got so close to. It’s…

Recent reviews

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  Merrily We Go to Hell 1932

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  The way Dorothy Arzner tells stories is so personal and beautiful

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  Pride & Prejudice 2005

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  Kicking and screaming so incredible

Popular reviews

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  Houseboat 1958

  ★★★★ Rewatched 07 Sep 2020 1

  this whole movie is basically a bunch of kids roasting cary grant for 2 hours.

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  Witness for the Prosecution 1957

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Apr 2021 2

  "I am constantly surprised that women's hats do not provoke more murders.”
  
  randomly seeing this on prime was great as it’s been on my watchlist for so long. i’m happy to say it was so much better than I thought it would be. every character seems very written out, like we know so much about them even though we really don’t. there’s plenty of comic relief and insight into everything. without Marlene Dietrich this movie would obviously be a lot…