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wantonsoup

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  • Mulholland Drive
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  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Hamlet

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  • Curse of the Golden Flower

    ★★★

  • Human Desire

    ★★

  • Prêt-à-Porter

  • The Mirror Crack'd

    ★★★

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  • Human Desire

    Human Desire

    ★★

    Women always have to pay for the abuse visited upon them all their lives.

  • Prêt-à-Porter

    Prêt-à-Porter

    Very blah and meh film which rattles on for a couple of hours while managing to say absolutely nothing of interest beyond the most surface level bits of cleverness here and there about the general vapidity of the world as expressed in the culture surrounding Paris fashion shows. Some funny gags, Sophia Loren being super beautiful, a charming moment here and there, but hardly worth the time it takes to get through it.
    I'm sure everybody had a fun vacation in France while shooting this movie though.

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  • Vision Quest

    Vision Quest

    ★★★★

    A classic, 80s pump-your-fist soundtrack and a great score from Tangerine Dream frame the story of a young student who sets his sights on making a wrestling championship. A film from when American movies featured working class characters with working class issues and everyone wasn't a secret retired operator assassin or some sort of unrecognized princess waiting to be saved from capitalism. As we follow protagonist Louden Swain (Matthew Modine), his father's farm has been foreclosed and he tries to…

  • Testament

    Testament

    ★★

    The American "Threads", basically, but maudlin rather than gut wrenching, and it seems the production had a budget of about $1000. In true American fashion, the survivors mostly just wither and die in a subdivision rather than organizing themselves.