One of Billy Wilder’s greatest films, and a textbook example of how to do a noir so right… and so good.
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Double Indemnity (1944)
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Tag / USA
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Feels Good Man (2020)
Pepe the Frog gets unceremoniously thrown into the US sociopolitical mixer in this insightful documentary about the pervasiveness of memes, perils of Internet culture and one man’s—creator Matt Furie—angst toward all that is wrong with American society.
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Rumble Fish (1983)
A feverish attempt at exploring the nature of wasted youth with strong visual and aural stylings that can’t quite hide its meandering narrative.
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Night Moves (2013)
Reichardt is such a skilled filmmaker that the moral consequences of eco-terrorism is given as nuanced a treatment as possible in this slow-burning gem.
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Sunset Boulevard (1950)
A bold, daring picture that shoots arrows at the Dream Factory that is Hollywood, and arguably Billy Wilder’s finest film.
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Jackie (2016)
An unconventional if poignant character study on Jacqueline Kennedy that draws a haunting, lingering effect as if we are witnessing the intimate spectres of fragmented history flow resplendently back to life.
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Other Side of the Wind, The (2018)
Superbly-edited and exuding a sense of ‘new wave’ energy, Welles’ previously incomplete film before his death is now complete (or not?) in this strange, kaleidoscopic but rather uncompelling work.
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Dead Man (1995)
A stylish revisionist anti-Western masterpiece by Jim Jarmusch that is both surreal, spiritual and poetic, backed by a stunning improvised ‘live’ score by Neil Young.
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Jackie Brown (1997)
Some pacing issues aside, Tarantino’s only screen adaptation mostly works because of our faith in his characters and where he takes them to.
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August: Osage County (2013)
Intense performances by the ensemble cast, in particular Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, elevate this honest and painful portrait of a feuding family to rather solid drama status.
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Eternality Tan 