JamieCoffey

Favorite films

  • Out of the Blue
  • Nights of Cabiria
  • Wings of Desire
  • Viva Las Vegas

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  • The Great Beauty

  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

    ★★★★★

  • An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano

    ★★★★★

  • Jules and Jim

    ★★★★★

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1969

★★★★★ Liked 1

Oh you sweet sweet comfort.
When raindrops fall on my head, I love to watch you !

An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano

1977

★★★★★ Watched

This movie snuck up on me & I was in tears by the end.
No idea what was around the corner.

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A/Way

2024

★★★★★ Liked Watched

Derek Garcia’s A/Way is a debut feature with immense heart and soul.

Garcia executed a unique, seamless blend of documentary and narrative film formats // remnants of the budding & so beloved (by me) American Neo-Realism genre throughout.

Jaw-dropping cinematography — illuminating Martinique as a place for retreat from one’s ghosts and mundanity, a place for dreams to tango with personal haunts, a place to dance with the curved limbs of tree trunks with strangers, a haven to connect to others…

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

2000

★★★★★ Watched

Cinema is innocent.

A toad in the snow. A toad in a puddle. 
And the photograph that captures your chin looking wrong and flabby. 
Flower stems in the wind and cat paws pawing at the last slice of bread — 

Love is flowers on the dashboard
Love distinguishes man from stone.

The beauty of the moment overcame him, he forgot all the moments that preceded it.

Backlit from the open window.
You’re a faceless thing.
You’re everything 

the ecstasy of…

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