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Cass Milne
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I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion.
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A ★★★★★ review of PlayTime (1967)
Jacques Tati meticulously constructed an expensive citywide set (a character in it's own right) on the outskirts of Paris to create this leisurely paced, whimsical, and visually brilliant film that wo...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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A ★★★★★ review of Le Samouraï (1967)
Jean-Pierre Melville( a hero of the French Resistance) and Sergio Leone similarly reconstructed American genre films through a highly stylized European lens--transforming pulp fiction into high art. L...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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A ★★★★★ review of Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
Elevator to the Galllows is a sly but clear commentary on France's colonial involvement in Algeria and Indochina and the moral rot of contemporary France. This innovative and essential noir and precur...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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A ★★★★★ review of Wise Blood (1979)
John Huston's adaptation of Flannery O'Conner's Wise Blood prefigures the regionalism, dark humor, gothic violence, and the spiritual inquiries of the grotesque and flawed individuals of the Coen brot...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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A ★★★★★ review of Cutter's Way (1981)
Ivan Passer's neo-noir Cutter's Way is one of the best films of the 1980s but it really belongs to the 1970s cinema of paranoia and dread like Klute, Winter Kills, Chinatown, Night Moves, Nashville, T...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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A ★★★★★ review of Petulia (1968)
Richard Lester's "Petulia" belongs alongside Antonioni’s “Eclipse” and Resnais’ “Last Year at Marienbad" for exposing the soul sickness, impatience, and every day irritation of modern life. A relative...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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A ★★★★★ review of The Parallax View (1974)
One of the great paranoid thrillers of the 70's. The film within a film ( the montage designed by the sinister Parallax corporation to program Amercan citizens to become assassins) is a tour de force ...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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A ★★★★★ review of Wake in Fright (1971)
A depiction of alcohol induced debasement in Outback Australia not for the faint of heart. Booze, violence, sex, and animal cruelty define the the little-known territory, and the true horror of the fi...
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November 19, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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A ★★★★★ review of Zabriskie Point (1970)
The gloriously cathartic and apocalyptic finale of the film bleeds into abstraction while Pink Floyd explodes on the soundtrack. One of my favorite endings to a film ever. Who could forget the slow mo...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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A ★★★★★ review of Vanishing Point (1971)
An existentialist and mythical cult film made for motorheads, that captures the counterculture lifestyle of the seventies-- containing elements of rebellion, drugs, sexual freedom, and rock and roll. ...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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A ★★★★★ review of Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
It is hard to believe that Robert Aldrich's apocalyptic noir Kiss Me Deadly came out in 1955 but it's no surprise, with it's cutting edge and experimental technique that it influenced Jean-Luc Goddard...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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November 18, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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A review of Little Murders (1971)
Alan Arkin deftly combines comedy and serious social criticism in Little Murders. Urban violence and insanity are a metaphor for a breakdown of values within the film. The film depicts the breakdown o...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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A review of Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
One of the most sheerly entertaining movies of all time. A film about men under pressure and the romance and safety they forsake, even though they yearn for it without admitting it. The South American...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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A ★★★★★ review of After Hours (1985)
I wish Scorsese made more movies like this. A black comedy, in the vein of Kafka depicting the ill-fated trek of office worker Paul Hackett( Dunne) who attempts to make his way home from the SoHo dist...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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A review of Waiting for Guffman (1996)
Perhaps Christopher Guest's funniest mockumentary. In the small city of Blaine Missouri Corky St. Clair( Guest) leads a community theater production of Red, White, and Blaine, a musical recounting the...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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A ★★★★★ review of In a Lonely Place (1950)
A devastating noir that exposes the dark side of Hollywood and one of the greatest depictions of alcohol abuse and the anger that men are capable of. The film atypically avoids depictions of gangsters...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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A ★★★★★ review of Repo Man (1984)
A film that is just a part of the fabric of my being. It openly invites you to hate ordinary people and bask in the glory of those who live by a code. Alex Cox brilliantly esques formula and prefigure...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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November 6, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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A ★★★★★ review of Paris, Texas (1984)
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November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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A ★★★★★ review of Punishment Park (1971)
A polemical and dystopian mockumentary from Peter Watkins, set during the height of the Vietnam war and the post Kent State crack down of left wingers and counter culture figures. Members of the count...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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