Is this one of the greatest films ever made? I have lately been thinking the peak of cinema is musicals that fire on every cylinder, the music, singing, dancing, the blocking of the scenes, the architecture of the buildings, the writing, that makes up most of what the cinema is, this is only “missing” human faces. Here instead you have an intense portrayal of a completely made-up world, filled with innumerable little touches that one never tires of rewatching. I…
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Rosewood 1997
One story among many. Watching it you become aware of the concessions it has to make to exist at all (a fictional lead character, a white boy so disgusted by his father's racism that he runs away from home at the end of the film), but that it exists at all is rather astonishing. It struck me as less afflicted by the 12 Years A Slave or Schindler's List dilemma (though obviously neither of those films is in the least…
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