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Vision Quest 1985
I saw this inspiring film for the first time tonight in a pristine Warner Brothers archival 35mm print at the Paris Theater.
Matthew Modine found a great iconic role to play as an idealistic high school wrestler with big dreams whose life becomes complicated when he meets a somewhat older drifter artist played by Linda Fiorentino. The movie is full of likable working class characters living in 1980s Spokane, Washington. Look out for a young Forest Whitaker and Madonna. I was thrilled to meet and talk with Modine after the movie. Such a nice guy!Translated from by -
Donkey Skin 1970
Jacques Demy is best known for his masterpiece The Umbrellas of Cherbourg but Donkey Skin deserves equal attention. It’s a charming musical based on an unusual fairy tale in which a beautiful princess needs to avoid her widower father the King who thinks he should marry his daughter to fulfill his dying wife’s wish: that if he remarries, the woman should be more beautiful than his wife. The princess luckily has the help of a mischievous fairy godmother.
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Memory 2023
I attended an advance screening tonight of Memory, written and directed by Mexican director Michel Franco. The narrative takes the viewer in unexpected directions which makes it so moving. Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard are remarkable together as two damaged characters who unexpectedly connect through kindness. The film is well cast and director Franco uses long takes for scenes allowing the actors a lot of freedom. He doesn’t believe in filming a lot of coverage so the actors have to get the scenes right in one or two takes.
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A Complete Unknown 2024
I loved A Complete Unknown directed by James Mangold which is an engrossing recreation of Bob Dylan’s beginning years as a singer-songwriter starting with his arrival in NYC in 1961 when he met Pete Seeger up to 1965 when he went electric at the Newport Folk Festival right before his best-selling Highway 61 Revisited album was released. Timothee Chalamet is superb as Dylan, singing all his songs live. He is surrounded by a fine supporting cast including Edward Norton as…
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