Annual Opening Day rewatch. The reason this is the greatest of all baseball movies is that it's the only one that understands how many of the real pleasures of the game are found in a random mid-June game between two teams that aren't really going anywhere. I enjoy a good underdog triumph story as much as anyone, but most of the time when you go to the park or follow a team for a season there are some highs and some lows and then the season comes to an end, and this is the rare sports movie that both gets that and makes it compelling.
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A Mighty Wind 2003
I think by acclimation this is the most emotionally satisfying of Guest's trilogy from 1997-2003? It's probably my favorite from that run. The meanness toward some of his characters from the other movies is less on display here, and most of the songs pull off that Spinal Tap trick of sounding entirely believable and completely inane. And the Levy/O'Hara reconciliation is a note Guest never really even tried for anywhere else, but it's handled in a really lovely way.
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017
I think the most dispiriting response I've seen in my adulthood as a movie fan is everything that happened around this. It's a movie that is literally about the dialectic between the desire to make something new and the hold the past has over us, and the most vocal and toxic corners of the internet came out so resoundingly in favor of "just give us the old stuff" that they got a whole next episode that walked everything interesting in…
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Amadeus 1984
Theatrical cut finally available again.
Shaffer really did have such a great idea for a play, and he invented the now-familiar idea of a "Salieri-like" figure. The idea of being cursed with the ability to recognize greatness without having the skill to reach it yourself is a powerful one, and it's what ultimately lifts this film above the other staid costume dramas from the era that collected Oscars.
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