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Best Movies Seen in 2016

12/11/2016

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Imitation of Life (1959), directed by Douglas Sirk / written by Eleanore Griffin & Allan Scott
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Du côté de la côte (1958) & Oncle Yanco (1967), directed & written by Agnès Varda
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The Things I Cannot Change (1967), directed by Tanya Ballantyne
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Alucarda (1978), directed by Juan López Moctezuma / written by Alexis Arroyo & Juan López Moctezuma
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Miele di donna (1981), directed by Gianfranco Angelucci / written by Gianfranco Angelucci & Liliane Betti
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Charades [aka Felons] (1998), directed by Stephen Eckelberry / written by Richmond Riedel & Karen Black
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Bedevilled (2010), directed by Cheol-soo Jang / written by Kwang-young Choi
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The Act of Killing (2012), directed by Joshua Oppenheimer / co-directed by Christine Cynn
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Stories We Tell (2012), directed by Sarah Polley / written by Sarah Polley & Michael Polley
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Moonlight (2016), directed by Barry Jenkins / written by Barry Jenkins & Tarell Alvin McCraney
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This Is Me Watching: Limelight

22/4/2014

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Limelight asks us to care about the worst human being in the world. (He has “performing fleas.”)
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He’s scaring people away! That’s why he has no public!
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I feel like I’m watching the 1950s version of a star having a public meltdown.
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It’s like if Sharon Stone kept making movies.
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I think we’re supposed to like him because he saved a girl from suicide.
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I thought there was an Asian man in the movie for a moment and I was happy.
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Chaplin is being very old-white-man “I have a lot of wisdom to impart to you…”
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I hope this ends with her screaming at everyone, “I HOPE YOU KNOW YOU’RE WATCHING A FUCKING GENIUS!!!”
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I wonder how much drugs Chaplin did.
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I would have given it 5 stars if the woman had found him hanging from the ceiling after his old friend tells him his act sucks.
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How long is this movie??
RATING: 3 metaphorical deaths staged by Chaplin himself

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    Sylvain Verstricht

    has an MA in Film Studies and works in contemporary dance. His fiction has appeared in Headlight Anthology, Cactus Heart, and Birkensnake.

    s.verstricht [at] gmail [dot] com

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