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  Garbo Talks 1984

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Jan 2025 7

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  “You had me in the palm of your hands. Every time you moved, I sighed. You walked from one end of the room to the other, and it was as if your feet never touched the ground. Wanda and I saw every movie you ever made. She thought I loved you because I had big feet, too. It’s true. I wore size 10. I was only going on twelve years old. Wanda moved away.
  “… I wrote you a letter…

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  Meet Me in St. Louis 1944

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Dec 2024

  There was something especially dreamy about spending two hours in a world that takes place exactly a century before I was born, reconstructed with false glamour for the silver screen forty years later, viewed through the rose-tinted glasses of a world that’s even further away now than this one was in 1944. Not that time shouldn’t pass — thank God it does and did. Never get too lost in the elegance. I’ll watch anything with Judy Garland in it so I…

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  George Carlin's American Dream 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Jan 2025

  “It’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe in it.” 

  It’s a well-made documentary and Carlin, a unique and intelligent person, was frequently hilarious and made a lot of very good political points that will be worth repeating forever, but the pessimistic and misanthropic attitude he peddled towards the end of his career was obnoxious and that being the focus of the end of the doc kind of soured my opinion of him, though I…

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  Network 1976

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Jan 2025

  Literally invented end credits. I realized I need to closely read a lot more other screenplays and think about them as much as possible before I revise my own screenplay and resubmit it for new feedback once the basic issues are patched. I was brought here from a list of the greatest screenplays of all time and it really delivered. Network represents America scathingly and perfectly. I didn’t realize I’d unintentionally chosen such a suitable film to follow after The Apprentice, but…

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  Janet Planet 2023

  ★½ Watched 27 Jun 2024

  Not for me but probably life-changing to someone else so good for them whatever

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  The Birdcage 1996

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 03 Aug 2023

  “Yes, I wear foundation. Yes, I live with a man. Yes, I'm a middle-aged fag. But I know who I am, Val. It took me twenty years to get here, and I'm not gonna let some idiot senator destroy that. Fuck the senator, I don’t give a damn what he thinks.”