3 things about Bernardo Bertolucci’s THE LAST EMPEROR

Posted on January 2, 2021 by robchristopher

The Last Emperor [1987]

1. “I told you, I hate you.” The disengaged look on her face as the spy sucks her toes.
2. Beneath the sheets.
3. A cricket cage still hidden under the cushion.

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3 things about Howard Hawks’s BRINGING UP BABY

Posted on January 1, 2021 by robchristopher

Bringing Up Baby [1938]

1. The way she laughs.
2. Backless dress.
3. “Did we get across?”
“No, we’re right back where we started, only we’re wet.”

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A selected inventory of 2020.

Posted on January 1, 2021 by robchristopher

By the numbers …

207: feature films I watched in 2020 (10 of which I viewed in a theater)
47: books I read in 2020
29: pizzas we ordered from The Art of Pizza
86: mystery green statistic

Happy New Year!

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3 things about Richard Linklater’s WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE

Posted on December 31, 2020 by robchristopher

Where’d You Go, Bernadette [2019]

1. Star-shaped opening in the carpet revealing the green shoot of a houseplant.
2. Microsoft money.
3. “Interventions are above my paygrade.”

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Best films I watched for the first time in 2020.

Posted on December 31, 2020 by robchristopher

Years don’t matter any more, if they ever did. True is true.

CAMERAPERSON (Kirsten Johnson)
DON’T THINK I’VE FORGOTTEN: CAMBODIA’S LOST ROCK’N’ROLL (John Pirozzi)
FIRST COW (Kelly Reichardt)
I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (Charlie Kaufman)
JASPER MALL (Brett Whitcomb & Bradford Thomason)
THE LONG WALK (Mattie Do)
PARASITE (Bong Joon-ho)
QUEEN & SLIM (Melina Matsoukas)
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (Matthew Rankin)
THE WIND: A DOCUMENTARY THRILLER (Michał Bielawski)

I consider CITY SO REAL (2020, Steve James) to be a series, not a film, or else it would surely be on my list!

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3 things about Paul Thomas Anderson’s INHERENT VICE

Posted on December 29, 2020 by robchristopher

Inherent Vice [2014]

1. “Molto panacako!”
2. A bare patch on the sofa cushion’s vinyl cover.
3. “So, justice was served?”

3 other things.

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3 things about Patty Jenkins’ WONDER WOMAN 1984

Posted on December 28, 2020 by robchristopher

Wonder Woman 1984 [2020]

1. Fanny pack.
2. “Mind your business.”
3. Unwanted cows.

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3 things about Frank Capra’s IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

Posted on December 27, 2020 by robchristopher

It’s a Wonderful Life [1946]

1. Mr. Gower’s voice is the first we hear.
2. Fifty cents on the dollar.
3. “Yeah, yeah yeah, soybeans, yeah.”

3 other things.

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3 things about John McTiernan’s DIE HARD

Posted on December 26, 2020 by robchristopher

Die Hard [1988]

1. Japanese artifacts in the vault.
2. Is the nerd the only bad guy who doesn’t die?
3. “Now I know how a TV dinner feels.”

3 other things.

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3 things about Lulu Wang’s THE FAREWELL

Posted on December 23, 2020 by robchristopher

The Farewell [2019]

1. Professional crier.
2. She pulls up her shirt, revealing the cupping marks on her back.
3. Outside the window of her hotel room, a plume of cigarette smoke dissolves in the air.

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