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Yesterday, 07:02 PM

baby doll replied to a thread Top 10 of 2021 in General Film Discussion

As someone who often feels overwhelmed by the viewing selections available to me (my MUBI watchlist currently has ninety-two items on it), I think...

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01-16-2022, 11:49 PM

baby doll replied to a thread Top 10 of 2021 in General Film Discussion

When I was in my early twenties, I used to feel an obligation to "keep up" with new movies and produce an annual top ten list, but over the years,...

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01-14-2022, 09:29 PM

baby doll replied to a thread Top Ten Films First Seen in 2022 in General Film Discussion

The Ghost That Never Returns (Abram Room, 1930) Le Signe du lion (Éric Rohmer, 1962) Trouble in Mind (Alan Rudolph, 1985) Bye Bye Africa...

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01-13-2022, 07:06 AM

baby doll replied to a thread 28 Film Discussion Threads Later in General Film Discussion

I have no problem with unserious fun; the problem with the super-hero movies I've seen is that, aside from Feuillade's Judex and Franju's 1963...

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01-12-2022, 08:51 PM

baby doll replied to a thread 28 Film Discussion Threads Later in General Film Discussion

I think in the context of the 1950s and 1960s, toppling the high/low art binary was a positive development since it made it possible to take...

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01-12-2022, 05:47 PM

baby doll replied to a thread 28 Film Discussion Threads Later in General Film Discussion

I haven't seen the films you're referring to, but I think the important point here is that you're making a case for these films in terms of their...

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01-12-2022, 06:56 AM

baby doll replied to a thread 28 Film Discussion Threads Later in General Film Discussion

At the risk of being that guy on the internet who goes on longwinded rants about how postmodernism is the devil, I think the idea, which I agree with...

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01-11-2022, 05:43 PM

baby doll replied to a thread Celeb (and Celeb SO's) Obit Thread in The Kitchen Sink

Opera singer (and Rebecca Hall's mom) Maria Ewing, 71.

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01-07-2022, 10:46 PM

baby doll replied to a thread 28 Film Discussion Threads Later in General Film Discussion

Pigs and Battleships and The Insect Woman are both great. A Man Vanishes has some interesting things in it but it struck me as a bit long and drawn...

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01-07-2022, 01:48 AM

baby doll replied to a thread Celeb (and Celeb SO's) Obit Thread in The Kitchen Sink

He's also in Noah Baumbach's Mr. Jealousy (where he also plays a therapist), which is pretty delightful.

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01-06-2022, 07:11 PM

baby doll replied to a thread Celeb (and Celeb SO's) Obit Thread in The Kitchen Sink

Saint Jack is an underrated movie. It's also apparently still banned in Singapore.

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01-06-2022, 07:05 PM

baby doll replied to a thread Top Ten Films First Seen in 2022 in General Film Discussion

Le Signe du lion (Éric Rohmer, 1962) Bye Bye Africa (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 1999) The Unseen River (Phạm Ngọc Lân, 2020)

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12-31-2021, 10:42 PM

baby doll replied to a thread Top Books First Read in 2021 in Literature

Novels: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë, 1848) Little Dorrit (Charles Dickens, 1855-57) War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy, trans. Ann Dunnigan,...

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12-27-2021, 02:34 AM

baby doll replied to a thread 28 Film Discussion Threads Later in General Film Discussion

It's not boring.

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12-24-2021, 07:09 AM

baby doll replied to a thread In Which I Just Talk About a Bunch of Movies I Watched Recently in General Film Discussion

Depressing or not, it's nevertheless obviously true. I'm not hearing a counter-argument that all, or even most, Chinese rom-coms, Mexican wrestling...

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12-24-2021, 02:30 AM

baby doll replied to a thread In Which I Just Talk About a Bunch of Movies I Watched Recently in General Film Discussion

I don't see why that's depressing. Literally hundreds, if not thousands, of films are released each year, most of which you and I will never hear...

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12-23-2021, 05:11 AM

baby doll replied to a thread In Which I Just Talk About a Bunch of Movies I Watched Recently in General Film Discussion

Most works of art in any medium are terrible. It doesn't follow from this fact (which I don't believe is at all controversial) that one shouldn't...

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12-23-2021, 01:07 AM

baby doll replied to a thread the Matrix Resurrections in Upcoming Film Emporium

I'm not saying I wouldn't ever watch it again (the 2003 sequels are another matter--although I liked them well enough at the time, life is just too...

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12-22-2021, 10:47 PM

baby doll replied to a thread In Which I Just Talk About a Bunch of Movies I Watched Recently in General Film Discussion

Most comedies, like most films in general, suck from the moment they're released.

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12-22-2021, 06:24 AM

baby doll replied to a thread Top Ten Films First Seen in 2021 in General Film Discussion

Une simple histoire (Marcel Hanoun, 1959) A Wife Confesses (Masumura Yasuzo, 1961) A Woman's Place (Naruse Mikio, 1962) The Insect Woman (Imamura...

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