Category: 5 Stars
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2001: A Space Odyssey on the big screen at New York’s Ziegfeld theater
One of the best movies ever made, on one of the biggest screens in New York. What could be better? It’s taken me many years and many viewings to realize that the movie is actually very, very funny. Perhaps this shouldn’t be surprising for a movie that directly followed Dr. Strangelove, but the sombre serious air…
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La Cité des enfants perdus (The City of Lost Children)
After having my mind blown by Delicatessen in college, I managed to catch The City of Lost Children in the 1995 Cambridge, England film festival. Any bits of my brain left over were blown out again.
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Woody Allen’s Match Point plays with your sympathies
Woody Allen’s Match Point is fantastic. Brilliant. Morally complex. Almost unbearably intense. It plays with your sympathies in way I haven’t seen since Hitchcock’s Frenzy (which I personally found cruel and sadistic, unlike Match Point). Up there with Crimes & Misdemeanors among Allen’s best.