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Splendor in the Grass 1961
This is my grandmother's favorite film from her youth, and I wanted to surprise her by just putting it on one night. I wasn't expecting too much - a sweet little romantic drama, I guessed. How I was wrong!
It's uncompromising, and pretty daring for Hollywood and its time. It takes place in 1928, but the story is universal in a way - the hypocrisy regarding love and sexuality and the unfairly different standards boys and girls are held to…
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Smart People 2008
Insufferably Indie. I mean, come on - starring: two mid-level stars, some actor I've never heard of, and Ellen Page, the story is about a weird, dysfunctional, downright bizarre family (one that's still more relatable than your average Hollywood Family™), the title on the poster is spelled with Scrabble tiles, the soundtrack... it's even directed by a guy called Noam Murro - doesn't he just sound like an indie director? Jokes aside, you can probably guess exactly what kind of…
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Main Theme 1984
OK, so it's an opinion I've held for a while, but after this film, if anybody seriously throws my way the idiotic notion that the 1980s were a "lost decade" for Japanese cinema, which was probably put forward by one of the critics who think that Japanese cinema began and ended with Ozu™ anyway, I am seriously going to punch something.
It's just absolutely perfect, Yoshimitsu Morita channeling Obayashi via Kadokawa - can you seriously think of anything better? I…
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Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald 1997
Hilarious! Staff at a radio station are preparing to broadcast a radio drama live, based on a script by the housewife Miyako Suzuki. Everything seems to be going quite fine - the stars have rehearsed and are all set for the broadcast. However, the female lead, enka superstar Nokko Senbon, has an itsy bitsy problem: she doesn't like the fact her character is called Ritsuko, because of a past relationship that ended on a sour note. In fact, it seems…
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