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#282: Buddies (1985) - Why yes, this wrecked me.

★★★★★ / ★★★★★

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A ★★★★★ review of Buddies (1985)
Bless the Decades Project for getting me to watch something this amazing. A story of two gay men, one dying of AIDS in 1985 and the other volunteering to be his companion while they are suffering a pl...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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#282: Buddies (1985) - Why yes, this wrecked me.

★★★★★ / ★★★★★

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A ★★★★★ review of Buddies (1985)
Bless the Decades Project for getting me to watch something this amazing. A story of two gay men, one dying of AIDS in 1985 and the other volunteering to be his companion while they are suffering a pl...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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#8: Detour (1945) - Come for the Ann Savage viper performances, stay for how I manage to tie this in with 500 Days Of Summer.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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A ★★★★½ review of Detour (1945)
Oh YEAH that's the nasty noir stuff. A tale of identity swapping, blackmail, criminal plots gone horribly wrong and all told in flashback. And there's where it gets really interesting for me; our prot...
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January 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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#277: Sholay (1975) - My god is this a blast of fun.

★★★★★ / ★★★★★

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A ★★★★★ review of Sholay (1975)
Action! Excitement! More crazy action! It's no wonder this is well regarded in film circles, a wild ride of a tale of two crooks hired by a police inspector to go after a bandit because he thinks ther...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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#104: Ulysse (1982) - Varda looks back at a photo she took decades ago and ruminates on the nature of time and the fleetness of art.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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A ★★★★ review of Ulysse (1983)
Take it as a rumination on the fleeting nature of time or the fleeting nature of art, or how someone can have a cherished memory that no one else remembers besides the clothes they wore; Varda weaves ...
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April 4, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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#106: Time Piece (1965) - Jim Henson writes and directs this charming short using jazz to show a man trying to escape the mundanity of time. It’s a lot of fun!

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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A ★★★★ review of Time Piece (1965)
OK, this is just FUN as it plays with jazz and clocks and imagery to tell a short story of a man trying to run away from time. The use of the jazz rhythms coupled with actions is really pretty great a...
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April 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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#146: Embrace Of The Serpent (El abrazo de la serpiente, 2015) - Thoughtful & horrifying work confronting the rubber apocalypse in Columbia over the last century+. Absolutely great.

★★★★★ / ★★★★★

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A ★★★★★ review of Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
I wasn't expecting Hearts Of Darkness in Colombia; this is at times a horrifying movie from two time periods about the white man coming in and fucking everything up and destroying nations for riches a...
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May 13, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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#260: Pierrot le fou (1965) - So weird and colorful and entertaining, even as the bodies hit the floor.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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A ★★★★ review of Pierrot le Fou (1965)
OK, being realistic, a lot of Godard bounces off me. I'm mid on Breathless, for instance. Alphaville is science fiction made by someone who doesn't seem like he understands science fiction. But for so...
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October 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Decades Project Time! Now watching: THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET (Obchod na korze, 1965). Because sure, a classic movie about collaborating with Nazis is good timing.

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January 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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#107: Simon of the Desert (Simón del desierto, 1965) - Buñuel being Buñuel in all his playful ways.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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A ★★★★ review of Simon of the Desert (1965)
Buñuel being Buñuel; Simon is a bit of an ass of an ascetic, standing on top of a pillar and judging the people who come to see him and ask for miracles. He's easy pickings for Satan and then the movi...
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April 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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All righty, Saturday Decades Project time! Now watching: Mirror (Зеркало, 1975). And par for Tarkovsky I’m sure this will all be easily comprehended and accessible.

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February 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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#236: In Jackson Heights (2015) - Sprawling and maybe a tad too long but it’s a lovely and thoughtful look at a neighborhood.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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A ★★★★ review of In Jackson Heights (2015)
An hour in I was starring to get restless, thinking that perhaps Wiseman could learn to trim a bit. But after that I started to become transfixed as this moves from conversation to performance to stre...
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August 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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#161: The Band Concert (1935)- So much fun.

★★★★★ / ★★★★★

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A ★★★★★ review of The Band Concert (1935)
It's fun to see Mickey being the stick-in-the-mud for once as Donald tries to get in on the fun of performing with an orchestra in the park. Absolutely lovely goofy animation; this is a Disney short a...
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May 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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#201: Shinjuku Boys (1995) - Really interesting doc about onabe working at a club in Tokyo.

★★★ 1/2 / ★★★★★

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A ★★★½ review of Shinjuku Boys (1995)
Really interesting look at three men working in a Japanese karaoke club who just happen to be transgender and what that means in their particular society and in the society of their friends and relati...
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July 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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#260: Pierrot le fou (1965) - So weird and colorful and entertaining, even as the bodies hit the floor

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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A ★★★★ review of Pierrot le Fou (1965)
OK, being realistic, a lot of Godard bounces off me. I'm mid on Breathless, for instance. Alphaville is science fiction made by someone who doesn't seem like he understands science fiction. But for so...
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October 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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#49: Falling Angels (1995) - Intersecting lives in a hyperactive-filmed Hong Kong? Why yes please.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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A ★★★★ review of Fallen Angels (1995)
It's twisty and weird, the story of 5 people in Hong Kong whose stories keep intersecting. Mostly we see a hitman and his partner who handles the business side (and for some reason cleans his flat) an...
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February 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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#254: Scarlet Street (1945) - One plot twist too many but it’s very cool to see a different version of Edward G. Robinson.

★★★ 1/2 / ★★★★★

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A ★★★½ review of Scarlet Street (1945)
It's a very solid noir but I think it suffers from just one twist too many. But that's a little beside the point because we've got a damn interesting acting trio of people trying to pull one over with...
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September 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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#17: Pather Panchali (Song Of The Little Road, 1955) - Oh hell yes I’m going to watch the rest of this trilogy.
★★★★★ / ★★★★★
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A ★★★★★ review of Pather Panchali (1955)
Slow? Hell yes. Measured? Also yes as hell. The story of Apu and his older sister Durga and their parents Sarbajaya and Harihar, living in a small village outside of Calcutta. Things are bad; there's ...
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January 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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#175: Chimes At Midnight (1965) - Maybe the best of this years Decades Project so far.

★★★★★ / ★★★★★

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A ★★★★★ review of Chimes at Midnight (1965)
I honestly was not expecting a tragedy of the best Shakespearean actors of their generation, working on an amalgam of the Henry and the Richards plays. And then it gets grim and dark and glorious as w...
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June 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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#100: Order (1955) -Almost a perfect movie but has one big misstep for me that undercuts the themes.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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A ★★★★ review of Ordet (1955)
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March 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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#69: Mustang (2015) - I have little to say about this wonderful, sad movie because damn it really does speak for itself.

★★★★★ / ★★★★★

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A ★★★★★ review of Mustang (2015)
Patriarchy in all it's awfulness, made all the worse by also being imposed by the women in this village. And yet the movie has some hope at the end.
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March 3, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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#140: Lady Vengeance (친절한 금자씨, 2005) - To quote MC Frontalot, “Everybody’s guilty on the Oriental locomotive.” It’s better than Oldboy.

★★★★★ / ★★★★★

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A ★★★★★ review of Lady Vengeance (2005)
I have no chill about this capper to the Revenge trilogy. This is better than OLDBOY.
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May 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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#187: Pied Piper (1985) - Would be much higher except for the use of live rats.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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A ★★★★ review of The Pied Piper (1985)
A masterpiece of stone and wood and puppetry about the legend we all know of Hamelin and how the piper led all the rats out, then was cheated and then led all the children away. Except this goes in a ...
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July 21, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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#125:Grim (1985) -Just who is the ghost in this scenario?

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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A ★★★★ review of Grim (1985)
An experimental film where we see superimposed images and individual frames with long exposures that makes it an ominous tour of one apartment, including glimpses of a woman in white that make you won...
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April 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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#146: Embrace Of The Serpent (El abrazo de la serpiente, 2015) - Thoughtful & horrifying work confronting the rubber apocalypse in Columbia over the last century+. Absolutely great.

★★★★★ / ★★★★★

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A ★★★★★ review of Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
I wasn't expecting Hearts Of Darkness in Colombia; this is at times a horrifying movie from two time periods about the white man coming in and fucking everything up and destroying nations for riches a...
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May 13, 2025 at 1:05 AM