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Vanity Fair (2004) (Reese Witherspoon)

Get On Up (Chadwick Boseman) (2014) — a tour de force of impersonation by Boseman.

Luis Bunuel: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972).

Hilarious. Bunuel "told a reporter at Newsweek that his favorite characters in the film were the cockroaches" (Wikipedia).

Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds (2009). An alternative history in which Jewish-American soldiers mimic Nazis by torturing and killing them indiscriminately.

HBO's series His Dark Materials (2018), based on Philip Pullman's novels.

Django Unchained (2012) by Quentin Tarantino

"The D is silent."

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzN1OPhwQSc

Frances Ha by Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig (2012)

a beautiful film, which among many other admirable things, such as its scintillating dialogue, is a tribute to the French New Wave.

City of God (2002). Finally saw it.

Joker (2019). Missed it in the theaters. Streamed a short sample. Will catch it after Jan 7 when I buy the DVD. Pretty unrelenting so far. Taxi Driver without Cybill and Jodie to compensate.

Viewed The House of Mirth (2000) 2 more times, just to absorb Wharton's riveting dialogue before reading her long book.

Theory of Everything (2014)

Inspired me to borrow and read Hawking's Brief History of Time.

Little Women (1994) with Winona Ryder

Age of Innocence ((1993)

Little Women (2019)

Splendid. Loved it. Now I must read the book.

Two New Yorker reviews helped explain for me what director Greta Gerwig was up to.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-f ... -women/amp

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020 ... -women/amp

Double Feature

Much Ado About Nothing, dir by Kenneth Branagh (1993).

Les Miserables, dir by Billie August (1998).

1917 (2019) by Sam Mendes.

A cinematic tour de force. If I had to make the case that the movies are the great art form of our time, this would be one of the flicks I would show.

In wide release right now. Won't be available on DVD and Blu-ray till March 24.

Cinematographer Roger Deakins holding the Arri ALEXA Mini LF he used to shoot 1917

Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

Boy Erased (2018)

Hearts and Minds (1974) - Classic Vietnam War Documentary supposedly better than the Ken Burns which I have not yet seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo

Rewatching 2 excellent guilty-pleasure action/adventure flicks:

Mission Impossible V: Rogue Nation
Mission Impossible VI: Fallout

Love both. The opera sequence in Rogue Nation (Turandot in Vienna) is a cinematic tour de force.

Sense and Sensibility (1995) - deserves all the accolades it received.

Troy (2004) with Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom, while reading the Iliad.

The Conversation (1974) with Gene Hackman on Amazon Prime video.

Robert Mitchum & Charlotte Rampling in Dick Richards's Farewell My Lovely (1975)