3 things about Kenji Mizoguchi’s OSAKA ELEGY

Osaka Elegy [1936]

1. “Have you forgotten that you’re the owner, at least in name, of Asai Pharmaceuticals? Yet you’re still the servile little toad you always were.”
2. Elaborate tracking shot upon entering Suminoe Suites.
3. I like to think that at the end she’s ready to restart her own life.

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3 things about Matt Reeves’ THE BATMAN

The Batman [2022]

1. The look on his face as he’s being cuffed.
2. Glasgow cemetery cycle ride.
3. Joker next door.

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3 things about Wes Anderson’s THE FRENCH DISPATCH

The French Dispatch [2021]

1. “I’ll have my drink now.”
2. Cat-covered roofs.
3. Typographic memory.

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3 things about Bruno Dumont’s FRANCE

France [2021]

1. Iridescent jacket.
2. Enormous Gilbert & George (?) stained glass artpiece in the living room.
3. “I was married to a monster for 20 years.”

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3 things about Chris Carter’s THE X FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE

The X Files: I Want to Believe [2008]

1. Dirty glass.
2. Another chase scene at a construction site.
3. Severed head in a cooler bag.

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3 things about Mervyn LeRoy’s HEAT LIGHTNING

Heat Lightning [1934]

1. “You go your way, and we’ll go the way of all flesh.”
2. She proffers her face for a kiss and he complies unenthusiastically.
3. A guitar and a voice and the heat lightning in the sky, and everyone sitting outside quietly.

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3 things about Christopher St. John’s TOP OF THE HEAP

Top of the Heap [1972]

1. Racist taxi driver played by Allen Garfield.
2. Moon landing rehearsal.
3. Spiro T. Agnew, golfing giant.

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3 things about Preston Sturges’s THE GREAT McGINTY

The Great McGinty [1940]

1. A crowd of 75,000 at the baseball game.
2. “Got a new suit.”
“It looks more like the suit got you.”
3. Destroying dishes in the dark.

3 other things.

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3 things about Isaac Halasima’s WATERMAN

Waterman [2021]

1. When Duke Paoa Kahanamoku arrived in Australia, he didn’t have a board with him. So he carved a new one himself.
2. He was the best … until Johnny Weissmuller came along.
3. Taking a nap under the stands before the race.

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3 things about Hayao Miyazaki’s PORCO ROSSO

Porco Rosso [1992]

1. Secret meeting in a movie theatre.
2. “I’d rather be a pig than a fascist.”
3. The graceful way in which we are shown that his curse has been lifted.

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