An extravagant Art Deco set illuminated with neon lights gives My Man Godfrey an unforgettable title sequence. It leads one to believe that this will be a love letter to Gotham or, at the very least, to the design style that continues to capture the city in the romantic imagination a century later. However, Gregory La Cava frames most of the action within the gaudy estate of the Bullock family. This Depression Era story of this family and their new…
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Down with Love 2003
A masterclass in how to recapture a bygone era/genre without delving into outright spoof. David Hyde Pierce is at his absolute best as exemplified by being able to convey believable attraction for wet-fish Sarah Paulson.
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The Royal Tenenbaums 2001
From a checked-out library book framing to Nico's "These Days," arguably providing the greatest needle-drop of the twenty-first century, this is the film in which Wes Anderson undoubtedly became an auteur.
The Tenenbaum children on whom Anderson centers the film, with their precocious upbringing and adult anxieties, are essentially grown-up members of the Peanuts gang. You can almost imagine Margo Tenenbaum deeply sighing over Schroder's piano in the fur coat she wraps herself in like a security blanket. At the…
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