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That They May Face the Rising Sun (2023)

A soft drama about a couple that have recently left London and returned to Country Leitrim in Ireland, she an art dealer and he a writer. Interacting with the old locals can be challenging to say the least as the area they live in is pretty much deserted farmland. It's portrayed well as we really see little youth to indicate that most have cleared off and don't want to keep up traditions. The quiet atmosphere and the haunting piano music are very well done.

2nd Rewatch...Adam Sandler was robbed of an Oscar nomination for his raw nerve of a performance in this intense drama about a fast talking New York jeweler trying to stay ahead of some serious gambling debts and having to walk a very thin tightrope to do so. Sandler really proved himself an actor of substance with this unhinged performance that keeps this drama on sizzle.

2nd Rewatch...A frighteningly unhinged performance by James Franco that should have earned him an Oscar nomination anchors this offbeat biopic of an eccentric and enigmatic filmmaker named Tommy Wiseau, who earned his 15 minutes directing a bizarre little movie called The Room. The movie follows Tommy's relationship with Greg (Franco's real life brother, Dave) and how their lack of success at getting acting jobs leads Tommy to the decision to write and direct a movie himself and have Greg star in it. The real meat of the story is the mystery behind who Tommy Wiseau really was...he spoke with a middle European accent and claimed he was from New Orleans, he spent 5 million dollars to make the movie and wouldn't tell Greg or anyone else where the money came from and wouldn't tell anyone how old he was. Especially love the end of the film where they show excerpts the movie's version of The Room and the same clips from The Room. Franco also directed the film and it received an Oscar nomination for Adapted Screenplay. An oddly riveting film experience.

1st Rewatch...Surprisingly rich film version of the Judy Blume bestseller that follows a young girl adjusting to her family's move form Manhattan to suburban New Jersey and thrown into an emotional tailspin about the fact that she hasn't gotten her first period. Fans of the Bo Burnham movie Eight Grade will have a head start with this often movie look at pre-teen growing pains that pre-teens go through, not just puberty but a completely believable look at religious beliefs that climaxes in a sizzling dinner party where Margaret's Christian grandparents and her Jewish Grandmother battle for her soul. Abby Ryder Forston is a revelation as Margaret and gets solid support from Rachel McAdams as her mom and veteran scene-stealer Kathy Bates as her Jewish grandma.

Never heard of it, but it’s in my watchlist now.

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1st Rewatch...Clint Eastwood initially seemed an odd choice for the director's chair on this one, but he actually nails this beautifully expanded version of the Broadway jukebox musical that traces the rise and fall of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. With solid assistance from the screenplay Marshall Brickman and Rich Elice, Eastwood mounts a full bodied story that makes no bones about the fact that the group was initially funded by the mob. John Lloyd Young is allowed to reprise his Tony-Award winning role as Frankie Valli, utilizing that gorgeous voice of his, I could listen to this guy sing all day. That scene in the nightclub where Bob Gaudio first hears Frankie sing gives me chills. The real acting honors go to Erich Bergen as Gaudio and especially Vincent Piazza, who Boardwalk Empire fans might remember as Lucky Luciano,who pretty much steals the show as group leader Tommy DeVito. This film never got the acclaim it deserved for making a real movie out of a jukebox stage musical. As always with an Eastwood movie, production values are splendid, loved the way the musical numbers were given authentic sound and didn't sound just like dubbed in original recordings.

Because of Eve (1948) Watched on Tubi. A married couple, each with a sexual secret, go to a doctor while trying to conceive. Secrets are revealed and the doctor shows the couple education films about sexually transmitted diseases and childbirth. An explicit, at times graphic film, with more nudity than you would expect for 1948. If you enjoy these types of pretend educational (ie. exploitation) films, you will likely get a kick out of this. It's entertaining in its own way.

Frances Ha (2012)
Agh man.
So. Like, firstly I think they over do it imo. A fair bit of the middle of the movie for me is 'this is too much, it's too silly'. It loses marks for that.
Secondly, it's a beautiful looking film. Really, top quality work and all natural (I think). Now that is odd in a comedy, particularly a kooky comedy. It loses some of its beauty marks for that, but still gets some marks all the same.
Thirdly, "you're engaged?" is worth AT LEAST 0.25 on its own. Fourthly, it pulled it back to a really strong ending.
Sod it, I'll give it a 9.

IIRC, I liked this movie.

Hated Frances Ha...a link to my review:

https://www.movieforums.com/reviews/...rances_ha.html

This might be completely unfair of me, but I wonder if maybe you don't understand people who have to struggle?

I don't know, I do know I didn't understand this movie.

Strong statement from someone who’s only been here one month.

This might be completely unfair of me, but I wonder if maybe you don't understand that people have different tastes?

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A Kiss Before Dying (1956)

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That's a good one. Virginia Leith one of my favorite 1950s actresses. Link to my review

Repulsion 1965

10/10 (I can't think of anything that would have improved this film)

The Meetings of Anna - 4/10
Chantal Akerman sucks. But I know some think they're supposed to like her.

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