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Mongol (Sergei Bodrov, 2007)
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On 35mm at the Piedmont Cinema with Lucía and Ben on 29 June, 2008, at 21:55.
The story of Mongol is interesting (and I was lucky enough to come into the film with no knowledge of the legends of Genghis Khan), although I got a little bored of the mystical aspects […]

Supermarket Woman (Itami Juzo, 2006)
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On DVD at home with Lucía on 25 June 2008 around 23:00.
Juzo Itami likes to make movies about self-improvement. About learning how to do something right, and about staying on the straight and narrow despite what obstacles you might find thrown at you. While much more focused […]

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On DVD with Lucía at home on 20 June 2008, quite late at night. We paused three quarters of the way through the film and continued the next night.
Not a whole lot to say about the film. One gets a sense of what people probably thought San Francisco was like at […]

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On DVD at home with Lucía on 23 June 2008 at around 22:30.
Manipulative? Maybe, but not in a way I really minded. You can certainly see the principles of neorealism sounding strong in this film, and in some ways I liked this better than Bicycle Thieves even if it was a […]

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On DVD with Lucía at home on 22 June 2008, fairly late at night.
An early femme fatale. Barbara Stanwyck is in peak form as the man-destroying seductress Lily Powers, hell-bent in making her way to the top (quite literally). Once there (and really, it takes her now time at all to […]

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On DVD with Lucía at home on 20 June 2008 pretty late in the evening.
A little rough around the edges, this gritty thriller has the visual flair, attention to detail, and rather bizarre acting I’ve come to expect from Jules Dassin. I haven’t really loved any of the Dassin films I’ve seen […]

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On DLP(?) at AMC Bay Street 16 with Lucía, Aman, Arvinder, Margarita, Rashpal, and Ruchi on 13 June 2008 at 21:45.
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On 35mm at the Metreon with Lucía on 3 June 2008 at 20:15.
The Wachowski brothers definitely have an eye for special effects and a sense for fight scenes. The story was ___, the dialogue was even more ___, but John Goodman, Christina Ricci, and Roger Allam were great. It’s a shame […]

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On 35mm at the Century San Francisco Centre with Lucía on 2 June 2008 at 20:35.
I enjoyed this much more than I expected. Harrison Ford is as entertaining as usual and while the story is ridiculous/formulaic the dialogue is not painful. I can’t say that I was ever really that excited […]

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On DVD at Delsa’s house with Lucía (asleep) on 28 May 2008 at around 22:30.
Ace in the Hole is a very dark, cynical film. A deep shade of noir. While perhaps not as extreme as Sweet Smell of Success, it certainly comes close, and is probably more relevant after all these […]