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Favorite films

  • The ion of Joan of Arc
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  • Shadow of a Doubt

All
  • West Indies

    ★★★★

  • Harper

    ★★★½

  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

    ★★★★

  • Grand Illusion

    ★★★★★

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West Indies

1979

★★★★ Watched

The basic conceit means it can sometimes default to a kind of theatricality. This can help or hurt depending on viewer readiness for something a bit more experimental.

Harper

1966

★★★½ Watched

Serviceable and twisty.

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Tuesday

2023

★★★★ Watched

Thoughtful, playful, reverential, and mysterious.

The Night of the Hunter

1955

★★★★ Watched

If Uncle Charlie from SHADOW OF A DOUBT had not been tossed under the wheels of a moving train, but crawled to safety and found religion; if Lonesome Roads from A FACE IN THE CROWD had not smoldered out alone in his apartment or thrown himself off the balcony but had wandered across a Bible and found a way to rebrand God as himself; if PSYCHO’s Norman Bates had switched conversation partners from Mother to the Almighty — we’d have Harry…

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