3 things about Joseph H. Lewis’s MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS

Posted on June 17, 2019 by

My Name Is Julia Ross [1945]

1. “She’s perfect.”
“There’s even a small resemblance.”
2. She keeps a locked drawer full of her son’s knives.
3. Unhelpful vicar.

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3 things about François Ozon’s FRANTZ

Posted on June 15, 2019 by

Frantz [2016]

1. Black & white. They enter the cave, pass through, and on the other side the world is in color.
2. She studies the painting. “It makes me want to live.” Manet’s “Le Suicide.”
3. Without reading it, she tosses the letter into the fire.

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3 things about Alex Thompson & Kelly O’Sullivan’s SAINT FRANCES

Posted on June 14, 2019 by

Saint Frances [2019]

1. Roberto Bolaño t-shirt.
2. “I love you, Dad.”
They hug.
“Change the oil in your car.”
3. A Northwestern graduate, she’s the author of Resting Rich Face.

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3 things about Yorgos Lanthimos’s THE FAVOURITE

Posted on June 10, 2019 by

The Favourite [2018]

1. “Must the duck be here?”
2. Sectional lace-up leather corset.
3. “Have you come to seduce me or rape me?”
“I am a gentleman.”
“So, rape then.”

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3 things about George Cukor’s A STAR IS BORN

Posted on June 8, 2019 by

A Star Is Born [1954]

1. She kisses him first.
2. A tiny, squelched “no.”
3. Spanish musical troupe rehearsing backstage.

3 other things.

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3 things about Alan Gibson’s DRACULA A.D. 1972

Posted on June 6, 2019 by

Dracula A.D. 1972 [1972]

1. “Com’on Jess, it’s only for a giggle.”
2. A truly great edit: tilt up from a gravestone in 1872 to the sky, in which a jet plane suddenly appears.
3. Bubbling blood and ashes in a chalice.

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3 things about Alain Resnais’ LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD

Posted on June 5, 2019 by

Last Year at Marienbad [1961]

1. Abandoned tea service on the table in front of her.
2. The group adjourns to the library to research last year’s weather reports.
3. A drawer filled with hundreds of copies of the same photograph.

3 other things. I’d like to live inside this movie sometimes, its stillness and physical spaces. Someday I’ll watch this without subtitles so that I can experience it more purely.

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