A marvel: creepy and endlessly inventive, with great worldbuilding and coming of age themes. A couple portions drag.
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Hannah and Her Sisters, the second drama by Woody Allen after a long string of comedies, is a fantastically crafted slice-of-life drama of three sisters with interlocking lives.
A twisted Japanese noir with one of the greatest femme fatales committed to celluloid.
The visuals are astonishing (especially the colors! holy crap!), and the story doesn’t lack for scope or invention or polish. But a polished turd is still a turd, and this script is pretty rough.
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Tokyo Drifter (1966)
An impressionist masterpiece of composition, editing, and poetic suggestion.
If you love movies and escapism and romance, go watch this film. Hugely entertaining and also smart as hell, brilliantly made, and delightfully acted.
A movie character hops out of the screen and falls for a film-obsessed local girl, and the line between reality and cinema blur. Daniels and Farrow are great.
Kind of like Enchanted but for classic Hollywood instead of golden age Disney.
Broadway Danny Rose is Woody Allen at his peak filmmaking powers. The framing story of wiseacres narrating the story gives the movie a tall tale-like feeling. Mia Farrow is amazing and completely transformed, and Gordon Willis’s black and white photography is intoxicating. World-class stuff. The straightforward romantic comedy elements are elevated by melancholic thematic guts, plus the visual grandeur. This is a borderline masterpiece.
More chaotic than I recalled from childhood — for me as an adult, too chaotic. But it’s charming with lovely watercolor backgrounds and great characters
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Tourist Trap (1998)
