Favorite films

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  Despicable Me 2 2013

  ★★½ Watched 07 Jan 2014 1

  I never saw Despicable Me 1. It looked bad. Like one of those movies that try to be cool or funny but aren't really because it's forced, the way much of DreamWorks' CG kiddie movies tended to be. That's why I didn't watch that one. This one I decided to watch because of a small clip that played on the FX channel from this movie. I was on the computer in the kitchen/dining room and it was my little sister…

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  Jules and Jim 1962

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Sep 2013

  Better display of FNW than in Breathless. The "narrator" style works with an interesting situation like here, with a woman loving two men and all three being friends.

Popular reviews

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  Sansho the Bailiff 1954

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 07 Jun 2013 5

  THE GREATEST REDEMPTION FILM OF ALL TIME

  No one else seems to be able to name one movie that does the redemption feeling as well as Sansho.

  NOT ONE.

  DVD release by Criterion. My public library has almost all the Criterion DVDs. WHAT ABOUT YOURS? I'm going to steal some things said in the special features and in the pamphlet that came with the DVD. This is the film by Kenji Mizoguchi that is on the same (as esteemed by…

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  Breathless 1960

  ★★★½ Watched 09 Jun 2013 5

  Spent 8 hours and 36 minutes watching, taking breaks and rewinding a lot, from 9:34 PM to 5:02 AM.

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  I was supposed to watch this right after Sansho the Bailiff, but I just couldn't get myself in the mood to watch it right through all the way. And then I went and watched Saltimbanco thinking it would be the same one I watched some years ago to impress the elder of my two little sisters (she walked away in…