3 things about Kaige Chen’s FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE

Posted on March 12, 2024 by robchristopher

Farewell My Concubine [1992]

1. Aquarium and opium.
2. Passing the headdress.
3. Ending with a real sword.

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3 things about Wim Wenders’ PERFECT DAYS

Posted on March 10, 2024 by robchristopher

Perfect Days [2023]

1. He always leaves his wristwatch behind … except on the weekend.
2. “Patricia Highsmith knows everything about anxiety. She made me realize that fear and anxiety are different things.”
3. Second best use of Nina Simone in a film? (First is Inland Empire, of course.)

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3 things about Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri’s THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY IN THE WORLD

Posted on March 8, 2024 by robchristopher

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World [2021]

1. Visconti’s direction largely consisted of four things: Go, Stop, Turn Around, Smile.
2. Ten days of apartment cleaning.
3. Manga icon.

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3 things about Josell Ramos’s MAESTRO

Posted on March 7, 2024 by robchristopher

Maestro [2003]

1. Reading the grooves without headphones.
2. An array of tweeters suspended over the dancefloor.
3. Gwen Guthrie’s farewell speech at the closing of the Paradise Garage.

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3 things about Griffin Dunne’s JOAN DIDION: THE CENTER WILL NOT HOLD

Posted on March 5, 2024 by robchristopher

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold [2017]

1. During a party at their house, she walks into her child’s bedroom and finds drug paraphernalia
2. Ice-cold Coke in the fridge at all times.
3. Collecting the latest gossip during his morning walks in Central Park.

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3 things about Wes Anderson’s ASTEROID CITY

Posted on March 4, 2024 by robchristopher

Asteroid City [2023]

1. Cocktail vending machine.
2. The host apologizes and bows out.
3. “Everything is connected but nothing’s working.”

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3 things about Denis Villeneuve’s DUNE

Posted on March 3, 2024 by robchristopher

Dune [2021]

1. Net-veil.
2. “I’m not in the mood.”
3. The three men sink and vanish.

3 other things.

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3 things about Robert Fuest’s THE FINAL PROGRAMME

Posted on March 2, 2024 by robchristopher

The Final Programme [1973]

1. “Try and get some sleep.”
“But I don’t need any sleep.”
“I know you don’t, but it’s much easier to run a hospital with all the patients sleeping.”
“It’s the easiest way to run the world for that matter.”
2. A security system that induces a form of epilepsy.
3. “Well, cleanliness is next to godliness, but the two should never be confused.”

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3 things about Sean Durkin’s THE NEST

Posted on February 26, 2024 by robchristopher

The Nest [2020]

1. Before retrieving her cashbox she insists that he leave the bedroom.
2. The same white bread sandwiches from both his mother and his daughter.
3. Graffiti left on the wall in the entryway.

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3 things about Claude Chabrol’s LA CEREMONIE

Posted on February 25, 2024 by robchristopher

La Cérémonie [1995]

1. “You can’t prove anything.”
2. When watching TV she never changes the channel.
3. “I’m recording it.”

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