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  Battleship Potemkin 1925

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Mar 2025

  Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Pearl Harbor, the Tet Offensive, 9-11. Why were we never taught the importance of the spoonful of borscht?

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  Faust 1926

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Mar 2025

  Doesn’t save a village, becomes a sex maniac, weaves a path of destruction, plays the “Liebe” card, goes to heaven

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  The Public Enemy 1931

  ★★★★½ Watched 30 Sep 2024

  I never knew how much this film influenced Miller’s Crossing

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  To Be or Not to Be 1942

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 Jan 2024

  Produced in the very dark year of 1941 (released in early ‘42), I am blown away by how well this WWII comedy holds up 82 years later, and how insanely edgy it was at the time. Concentration camp jokes? In 1942? Wow.

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