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Sword Fishing (DeLeon Anthony, 1939)

A Perfect Boss (Curtis Crawford, 2013)

The Dark Corner (Henry Hathaway, 1946)

Picnic (Joshua Logan, 1955)


19-year-old Kim Novak dances with “bad boy” William Holden at a Labor Day picnic.
Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson, 1952)
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A Sister’s Revenge (Curtis Crawford, 2013)

House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller, 1955)

The Breadwinner (Nora Twomey, 2017)


An Afghan girl poses as a boy to help her family get food and water and rescue her father from the Taliban.
Swept Under (Michel Poulette, 2015)
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Chris Rock: Tamborine (Bo Burnham, 2018)
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Fatal Justice aka Retribution (Michael Feifer, 2012)
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Strong Island (Yance Ford, 2017)


Oscar-nominated Documentary about a 25-year-old case of seeming-racism which basically destroyed the director’s family.
Leadbelly (Gordon Parks, 1976)
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A Father’s Secret aka Hard Truth (R.D. Braunstein, 2016)

A Film Like Any Other (Jean-Luc Godard & Groupe Dziga Vertov, 1968)

Mute (Duncan Jones, 2018)


Left mute by a childhood accident, bartender Alexander Skarsgård is frustrated by the Berlin underworld and the disappearance of his lover (Seyneb Saleh).
The Milky Way (Luis Buñuel, 1969)
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Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014)

The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel, 1974)
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Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, 2013)
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Medical engineer Sandra Bullock must survive the destruction of the space shuttle without communication from Earth.
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Damnation Alley (Jack Smight, 1977)
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If Looks Could Kill (James Cullen Bressack, 2016)

Unwritten Obsession (David Martin Porras, 2017)
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Last Men in Aleppo (Feras Fayyad & Steen Johannessen, 2017)


Syrian White Helmet volunteer and hero Khaled Omar Harrah works to recover living and dead bodies [and body parts] in Aleppo while trying to correct his children’s malnutrition.
Monolith aka Trapped Child (Ivan Silvestrini, 2017)
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F**k for Forest (Michel Marczak, 2012)

Social Nightmare (Mark Quod, 2013)
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Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1970)


The bravura opening of the film with General George S. Patton (George C. Scott) colorfully addresses his unseen troops.
Boy in the Attic aka Secrets in the Attic (Paul Shapiro, 2016)

Accidental Obsession aka Hit & Run (George Erschbamer, 2015)
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The Magician’s Daughter (Felix F. Feist, 1938)

The Snowman (Thomas Alfredson, 2017)


The snowy scenic wonders are the best part of this serial killer mystery set in Sweden but filmed in Norway.
Sami Blood (Amanda Kernell, 2017)
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Flight 7500 (Takashi Shimizu, 2014)

Kaili Blues (Gan Bi, 2016)

Anchors Aweigh (George Sidney, 1945)
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While telling young students a story, sailor Gene Kelly and the kids envisage him dancing with Jerry the Mouse.
Little Girl’s Secret aka Wait Till Helen Comes (Dominic James, 2016)
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Below the Surface (Damian Romay, 2016)

Je t'aime moi non plus (Serge Gainsbourg, 1976)

Ferdinand (Carlos Sandanha, 2017)


Ginormous but gentle Ferdinand the Bull gets in trouble when he follows the aroma of flowers into a china shop.



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MGM 40th Anniversary (No Director Listed, 1964)

The Assault (Jason Winn, 2014)
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Dear Basketball (Glen Keane, 2017)
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LOU (Dave Mullins, 2017)


A collection of objects in a school playground teaches a young bully-in-training a lesson.
The Silent Child (Lam Nguyen, 2009)

A Gun in His Hand (Joseph Losey, 1945)

Garden Party (6 Directors, 2017)

Dragon Blade (Daniel Lee, 2015)
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Peaceful warrior Jackie Chan rides out to battle the Romans if need be.
Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017)

Blood, Sweat and Lies (Lane Shefter Bishop, 2018)

Wanted – A Master (Gunther von Fritsch, 1936)
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Roxie Hart (William A. Wellman, 1942)


Chicago, 1927. Roxie Hart (Ginger Rogers) uses her sex and a murder confession to get famous.
Edith+Eddie (Laura Checkoway, 2017)

The Mudlark (Jean Negulesco, 1950)

Fatal Defense (John Murlowski, 2017)

The Greatest Showman (Michael Gracey, 2017)


P.T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman) uses a "magic lantern" to describe to his wife (Michele Williams and daughters) how his imagination will communicate with his intended audience.
Christmas Evil aka You Better Watch Out (Felix Jackson, 1980)

The French Way (Jacques de Baroncelli, 1945)

The Music Makers (Bryan Foy, 1929)

Batman vs. Two-Face (Rick Morales, 2017)


The allure of Catwomah (Voice of Julie Newmar) in prison almost gets to Batman (Voice of Adam West) before he recalls he's a crime fighter. Fun but less so than usual because West's voice couldn't complete all his fialogue; bonus is William Shatner doing Harvey Dent's voice.



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Her Honor, the Nurse (Harry W. Smith, 1956)

Galaxina (William Sachs, 1980)
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Final Destiny aka Brace for Impact (Michel Poulette, 2016)
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The Green Mile (Frank Darabont, 1999)



Even though he’s on death row, convicted killer Michael Clarke Duncan has a special power that affects most everyone, including guard Tom Hanks.
The Caretakers (Hall Bartlett, 1963)

British Sounds aka See You in Mao (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Robin & Groupe Dziga Vertov, 1970)
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Sins of the Mother (Paul A. Kaufman, 2010)
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Anatahan (Josef von Sternberg, 1953)


A group of isolated Japanese soldiers stranded on a remote jungle island miss the end of WWII and battle it out over the sexy “Queen Bee” (Akemi Negishi) of the island.
Fatal Lessons: The Good Teacher (Michael M. Scott, 2004)

The Maid aka A Housekeeper’s Revenge (Darin Scott, 2016)

Unexpected Uncle (Peter Godfrey, 1941)
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Faces Places (Agnès Varda & JR, 2017)
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Artist JR and prolific director Varda [who’s losing her sight] travel throughout France taking photos of people they meet, pasting them on huge outdoor surfaces and trying to make as many people as happy as they can.
Amber’s Story (Keoni Waxmam, 2006)

Desperate Hours: An Amber Alert (George Mendeluk, 2009)
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Righteous Kill (Jon Avnet, 2008)
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LA 92 (Dan Lindsay & TJ Martin, 2017)
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Riots at the corner of Florence and Normandie after the Rodney King verdicts are tied to the ’65 Watts Riots and the problems with justice for African-Americans to this very day.
Three Sisters (Wang Bing, 2012)
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Dealt (Luke Korem, 2017)
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Caught (Maggie Kiley, 2015)

Cowards Bend the Knee or the Blue Hands (Guy Maddin, 2003)


Maddin’s faux silent semi-remake of Hands of Orlac blends with numerous surrealistic touchstones of his life growing up in Winnipeg.



So glad you liked both LA 92 and Faces Places, Mark. They were both top ten of last year for me. LA 92 kinda destroyed me particularly because i wasn't aware of Latasha Harlins and also the way it was presented purely through news footage from the time.



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Psycho Wedding Crasher (David Langlois, 2017)

I Married an Angel (Maj. W.S. Van Dyke II, 1942)
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The Bottle and the Throttle (No Director Listed, 1961)
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Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper, 1982)


Still Raiders of the Lost Ark in a haunted house.
Daughter of the Dragon (Lloyd Corrigan, 1931)
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Way Back Home (William Seiter, 1931)

The Last Bid aka Storage Locker 181 (Casper Van Dien, 2016)
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Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943)


Watershed American surrealistic classic.
Her Dark Past (Kevin Shulman, 2016)

Step by Step (Phil Rosen, 1946)
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Honeymoon from Hell aka The Legend of Alice Flagg (Jake Helgren, 2016)

Don't Blink - Robert Frank (Laura Israel, 2016)
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Robert Frank is a terrific photographer and avant-garde vérité filmmaker.
16 and Missing (Michael Feifer, 2016)

A Hole in the Head (Frank Capra, 1959)
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Gone Missing (Tara Miele, 2013)

Quest (Jonathan Olshefski, 2017)


The Rainey family of South Philly are intimately shown in all the hopes, dreams and tragedies of their daily life.
Macon County Line (Richard Compton, 1974 )
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Return to Macon County (Richard Compton, 1975)
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Wild at the Wheel (Bob Ellis & Dick Sawyer, 1970)

La Soledad (Jorge Thielen Armand, 2016)


El Negro (José Dolores López) comforts his sick Grandma (María Agamez Palomino) at a trip to their Caracas welfare clinic where services are basically unavailable, just as they aren’t throughout their dying country.



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Lost Command (Mark Robson, 1966)
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Prince of Players (Philip Dunne, 1950)

Land of the Incas (James A. FitzPatrick, 1937)

The Counterfeit Cat (Tex Avery, 1949)
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A hungry cat has to trick a dog to make a meal out of a tweety bird.
Beau Brummel (Harry Beaumont, 1924)

Trader Hound (Zion Meyers & Jules White, 1931)

Room (Larry Abrahamson, 2015)

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (Ron Howard, 2016)


Early Beatles concert at the height of Beatlemania with Ringo as the Headless Drummer.
Laughing Boy (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934)

Marci X (Richard Benjamin, 2003)

Lover Come Back (Daniel Mann, 1961)
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Stranger on the Third Floor (Boris Ingster, 1940)
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Reporter John McGuire begins to feel guilty about his testimony which helps to convict cab driver Elisha Cook Jr. of murder, especially when he decides mysterious Peter Lorre is the real killer.
Time Out of Mind (Oren Moverman, 2014)
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Popeye the Sailor (Dave Fleischer, 1933)

Empire State (Dito Montiel, 2013)

Blade of the Immortal (Takashi Miike, 2017)



After his sister is killed, samurai Takuya Yimura fights and defeats an infinite number of enemies to help those deserving.
The Heroes of Telemark (Anthony Mann, 1965)

Born Reckless (Malcolm St. Clair, 1937)

The Odessa File (Ronald Neame, 1974)

Annihilation (Alex Garland, 2018)


Predator meets Stalker as some otherworldly-cancer invades a section of the Earth and teams of scientists investigate.



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Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul (Gerald Fox. 2017)

The Inherited aka Stranger in the House (Devon Gummersall, 2015)
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Love in the Afternoon aka Chloe in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer, 1972)
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The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson, 2017)
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Rey (Daisy Radley) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) are involved in a light sabre battle which could clarify what’s going on between the Resistance and the First Order.
Dark Delusion (Willis Goldbeck, 1942)
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Rogue’s March (Allan Davis, 1953)
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Mimosas (Oliver Laxe, 2016)

Wind from the East (Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin & Gerard Martin, 1970)


Never take or make an image [here of Anne Wiazemsky] for anything personal or commercial or you’re a capitalist swine!!
The Last Installment (Walter Hart, 1945)

Aida’s Secrets (Alon Schwarz & Saul Schwarz, 2017)
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Killer Reality (Jeff Fisher, 2013)
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Paddington 2 (Paul King, 2017)
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Paddington (Voice of Ben Whishaw) gets into lots of trouble despite his always being kind and polite.
The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra, 2016)

Cubalibre (Albert Serra, 2013)

Queer China, 'Comrade' China (Cui Zi’en, 2009)

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, 2015)
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Earl (RJ Cyler) and Greg [me] (Thomas Mann) get involved with a student (Olivia Cooke) from their high school who’s suffering from leukemia.
Doctor Faustus (Richard Burton & Nevil Coghill, 1967)

Guns of the Timberland (Robert D. Webb, 1960)
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X Y & Zee (Brian G. Hutton, 1972)

Yosemite the Magnificent (James A. FitzPatrick, 1941)


Yosemite’s Half Dome.



Sorry if I'm rude but I'm right
Wind from the East (Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin & Gerard Martin, 1970)
That's harsh! Haven't seen any Dziga Vertov era Godard yet, but heard it's his weakest era. Kind of afraid to tackle it. Almost everything I've seen by him was pretty good to masterpiece so far and I'm afraid I'm going to be disappointed.
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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.



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The Only Game in Town (George Stevens, 1970)

Secret Ceremony (Joseph Losey, 1968)
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Elizabeth Taylor - An Intimate Portrait (Pat Shields, 1975)

Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)


Sure, it makes perfect sense.
Blondie’s Big Deal (Edward Bernds, 1949)
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The Big Stampede (Tenny Wright, 1932)

Droopy Leprechaun (Michael Lah, 1958)

I Yam What I Yam (Dave Fleischer, 1933)


Popeye and Olive Oyl land in America and take on a multi-racist version of "Indians".
Roaming Through Northern Ireland (James A. FitzPatrick, 1949)

Ride Him, Cowboy (Fred Allen, 1932)
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Spring Dreams (Keisuke Kinosh!ta, 1960)
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The Panic in Needle Park (Jerry Schatzberg, 1971)
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One of the few moments where Kitty Winn and Al Pacino aren’t shooting up.
Flight of the Doves (Ralph Nelson, 1971)
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A Wife’s Nightmare (Vic Sarin, 2014)
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Paddy O’Day (Lewis Seiler, 1936)

The Sand Pebbles (Robert Wise, 1966)


1920s China. Rebellious U.S. Navy machinist mate Steve McQueen trains coolie Mako to help him work on his new gunboat’s engine.
Steve McQueen: American Icon (John Erwin & Ben Smallbone, 2017)

King of the Lumberjacks (William Clemens, 1940)
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Furlough (Laurie Collyer, 2018)

The Player (Robert Altman, 1992)
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Altman’s satire on the Hollywood studio system involves executive Tim Robbins receiving death threats from an unknown writer whose pitch he rejected.



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Madigan (Donald Siegel, 1968)

Struggle in Italy (Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1971)

sherrybaby (Laurie Collyer, 2006)

Charley Varrick (Don Siegel, 1973)


Witty, suspenseful action thriller which resolves itself in a meeting between mob hitman Joe Don Baker [in his ’67 Imperial Crown] and expert thief Walter Matthau [in his crop duster].
Spring Fever (Edward Sedgwick, 1927)

Springtime in the Netherlands (James A. FitzPatrick, 1950)
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Cherry Blossom Time in Japan (James A. FitzPatrick, 1936)
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Farewell to Spring (Keisuke Kinosh!ta, 1959)


A group of twentysomething friends reunite at their hometown where history and family melodrama rear their heads.
The Canary Comes Across (Will Jason, 1938)

Oscar Pistorius: Blade Runner Killer (Norman Stone, 2017)

Monkey Business (Robert F. McGowan, 1926)
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Ponette (Jacques Doillon, 1996)


Four-year-old Victoria Thivisol learns her mother is dead and tries to communicate with her as well as meet her in Heaven.
Spring Fever (Hal Roach, 1919)

Her Husband’s Betrayal (Ron Oliver, 2013)
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Menendez: Blood Brothers (Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato, 2017)

Earth: One Amazing Day (Richard Dale, Peter Webber & Lixin Fan, 2017)


Baby pandas share the day with kimodo dragon hatchlings, zebras, penguins, giraffes, narwahls, sperm whales, three-toed sloths, glow worms and many others.
The Anderson Tapes (Sidney Lumet, 1971)

Behind the Wall (John Schneider, 2008)

Whisperin’ Bill (Ben Holmes, 1933)

I Don’t Kiss (André Téchiné, 1991)
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The big city of Paris eats up many young people - including Gascon Manuel Blanc and Emmanuelle Béart who dreams of being a singer.



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You mean the whole thing or a certain exact part? I love the film because it seems like you know what's happening all the time but you never really do. That plus the performances, the wit, the action, etc.



You mean the whole thing or a certain exact part? I love the film because it seems like you know what's happening all the time but you never really do. That plus the performances, the wit, the action, etc.
When she shoots; I thought it was very brutal for it's time and I didn't expect it.



Wind from the East (Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin & Gerard Martin, 1970)
Struggle in Italy (Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1971)
Every time i see a rating like this from you i expect Godard to be involved in some capacity

Interesting that you liked The Last Jedi that much, thought it would get a low rating for a Star Wars film from you. Where would you have it in the series?



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Those are the two lowest ratings I give to a film in which Godard was involved. They're horrible. I do hand out that rating a lot less than you do. No comment on The Last Jesi ranking. I liked it a lot, especially compared to other recent movies. I think you'd adore Ponette.



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Then it must be 1 you hand out more than me. At IMDb, I've rated 66/24,305 films a 3, including those two; 5/24,305 a 2 and 0 movies 1. I might be ready to just drop those 71 films one rating each soon/now.

Ponette has one of the most natural, entrancing characters and "performances" ever.



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The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (Ronald F. Maxwell, 1981)

The Wizard of Lies (Barry Levinson, 2017)
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Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper, 1942)

A Dark Song (Liam Gavin, 2017)


Ominous Wales seems appropriate for a ritual which a woman (Catherine Walker) and her knowledgeable “coach” (Steve Oram) but even they dom’t kmow what to expect.
Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)

Nobody Speak. Trials of the Free Press (Brian Knappenberger, 2017)

The Night I Swam (Damien Manivel & Kohei Igarashi, 2018)

Storm Over Mont Blanc (Arnold Fanck, 1930)


On Mont Blanc in the Alps, observatory worker Sepp Rist has little contact with the outside world, except for a pilot and radio operator Leni Riefenstahl.
The Burglar (Paul Wendkos, 1957)

A Flirtatious Woman aka Une femme coquette (Jean-Luc Godard, 1955)
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Polina (Valérie Müller & Angelin Preljocaj, 2016)
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The Liberator (Alberto Arevalo, 2014)
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Caracas-born Simón Bolívar (Edgar Ramirez) rebels against the Spanish Empire, freeing the native people and becoming popular although not in all circles.
Foul Play (Colin Higgins, 1978)
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Blow Me Down! (Dave Fleischer, 1933)
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Pup Star: Better 2Gether (Robert Vince, 2017)

The Early Bird Dood It! (Tex Avery, 1942)
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A friendly worm tries to keep a bird from eating him by recruiting a cat.
Haunted Gold (Mack V. Wright, 1932)

Deep Purple in Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra (Aubrey Powell, 2000)

Home Invasion (David Tennant, 2016)

Ethel & Ernest (Roger Mainwood, 2018)


Animated version of graphic novelist Raymond Briggs’ tale of his parents (Voices of Brenda Blethyn & Jim Broadbent) life in London before and during his life.



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Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation (Laura Archibald, 2012)
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Breakheart Pass (Tom Gries, 1975)

Teknolust (Lynn Hershman Leeson, 2004)

The Walls of Malapaga (René Clément, 1949)


Criminal Jean Gabin flees France to Genoa, Italy, where he gets his tooth pulled and falls in love with peasant Isa Miranda.
Battles (Isabelle Tollenaere, 2015)

Holiday Camp (Ken Annakin, 1947)
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The Circle Closes (Mark Rappaport, 2015)

Fortune Teller (Xu Tong, 2010)


Li Baicheng practices fortune telling to support him and his wife although it’s illegal and both of them are poor and disabled.
Their Big Moment (James Cruze, 1934)

Love on a Bet (Leigh Jason, 1936)
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They All Come Out (Jacques Tourneur, 1939)
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Silverlake Life: The View from Here (Tom Joslin & Peter Friedman, 1993)
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Devastating depiction of the latter days of the 20-year relationship of Mark Massi and Tom Joslin who videotape each other as their bodies shrivel and fall apart from AIDS.
The H-Man (Ishirô Honda, 1958)

That Justice Be Done (George Stevens, 1945)

Malta Story (Brian Desmond Hurst, 1953)
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Vladimir and Rosa (Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1971)
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The best Groupe Dziga Vertov film I’ve seen – Satirical retelling of the Chicago 8 Trial with Gorin as Karl Rosa and a surprisingly-funny Godard as Vladimir Lenin.
The Magnetic Monster (Curt Siodmak, 1953)

The Sun Down Limited (Robert F. McGowan, 1924)
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Abducted: The Jocelyn Shaker Story (Conor Allyn, 2015)

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (Mark Jonathan Harris, 2000)


During the early days of WWII, 10.000 Jewish children were transported to Britain [and other countries] from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia.