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The T5 can be a cruel mistress . . .

Andrzej Wajda's Ten Best Films In light of Polish director Andrzej Wajda's recent passing, an alphabetical list of his ten best films.

BOTD Andrzej Wajda!!!
MCCT5: 5)Everything for Sale 4)Danton 3)A Generation 2)Man of Marble 1)Ashes & Diamonds
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@marbleicehook.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@klassiki.bsky.social: klassiki.online/the-watchlis...
@oleszczyk.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/far-flung-co...

Persona | Review by Susan Sontag - Scraps from the loft Susan Sontag reviews Ingmar Bergman's "Persona" for Sight and Sound magazine

3/6/67: Ingmar Bergman's Persona (NYC) 🙏🙏
w/Bibi & Liv, + Gunnar
From Us: midcenturycinema.org/2017/03/09/5...
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@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
@gointothestory.bsky.social: gointothestory.blcklst.com/classic-60s-...
Susan Sontag: scrapsfromtheloft.com/movies/perso...

Mark Knopfler - Brothers In Arms (Berlin 2007 | Official Live Video) YouTube video by Mark Knopfler

Mark Knopfler with the song of the day: m.youtube.com/watch?v=EMRJ...

The personal is political in Von Trotta's Rosa Luxemburg: The Skinny Margarethe von Trotta's celebrated biopic of socialist writer and activist Rosa Luxemburg comes to Blu-ray.

BOTD Rosa Luxemburg - Good day to catch Margarethe von Trotta's fine biopic, w/Barbara Sukowa
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Rob Aldam/ @backseatmafia.bsky.social: www.backseatmafia.com/blu-ray-revi...
Canby: www.nytimes.com/1987/05/01/m...
Gianni Marini/ @theskinnymag.bsky.social:
www.theskinny.co.uk/film/dvd-rev...

Pasolini 101 - Slant Magazine Pier Paolo Pasolini perpetually rebelled against moral hegemony, commiserating with outcasts and creating and dying as one.

BOTD Pier Paolo Pasolini!
Ferrara & Dafoe - @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/paso...
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@dfelsenthal.bsky.social: lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-ca...
@brucelabruce.bsky.social: www.indiewire.com/features/int...
@certifieded.bsky.social: www.slantmagazine.com/film/pasolin...

New From Us - On OBAA, via BLFJ:

"One Battle has but two scenes of such moving revelation (admittedly, this is two more times than in most. . . movies). The first is when Willa’s transponder goes off when she is alone in the bathroom at the high school dance"

brightlightsfilm.com/one-battle-a...

Harry and Dean The late stars of Paris, Texas

BOTD Dean Stockwell!!
MCCT5: 5)Psych-Out 4)Gardens of Stone 3)Compulsion 2)Paris Texas 1)Long Day's Journey
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@sheilakathleen.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/tributes/the...
@ashcclark.bsky.social:
ashleyclark.substack.com/p/harry-and-...

In this week's episode of That's 70s Movie Podcast, we went into the wheatfields with Terrence Malick's beloved Days of Heaven
But as we did not - sacré bleu! - belove it, we spent half the episode honoring Mr. Robert Duvall:

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

open.spotify.com/episode/4hgZ...

Looking Back at a Half-Forgotten Pioneer of Method Acting Marlon Brando was often credited as the first Method movie star, but that honor rightly belongs to John Garfield.

BOTD John Garfield!!
Hounded by HUAC
MCCT5: 5)Breaking Point 4)Fallen Sparrow 3)Ran All the Way 2)Force of Evil 1)Body & Soul
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John Prine 🙏: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3UT...
@martykudlac.bsky.social: cineuropa.org/newsdetail/4...
@isaacbutler.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

HBD Paula Prentiss!!
Notable #70s incl Move (w/Elliot Gould) Born to Win (Passer, w/George Segal, Karen Black) Catch-22 (Nichols) Parallax View (Pakula, w/Beatty)
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@hollywoodcomet.bsky.social: cometoverhollywood.com/2019/04/07/t...
@texasmonthly.bsky.social: www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

Thx!

New From Us - On OBAA, via BLFJ:

"One Battle has but two scenes of such moving revelation (admittedly, this is two more times than in most. . . movies). The first is when Willa’s transponder goes off when she is alone in the bathroom at the high school dance"

brightlightsfilm.com/one-battle-a...

3/4/66: Sidney Lumet's The Group
w/Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Shirley Knight, Jessica Walter & a party of favorites
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@rosaliekicks.com / @moviejawn.com: www.moviejawn.com/home/2022/12...
Kael: archive.org/details/sim_...
Melissa Anderson: www.4columns.org/anderson-mel...

3/4/70: Irvin Kershner's Loving [DP Mr. Willis]
w/George Segal, Eva Marie Saint, Sterling Hayden
Has a nice Cheever buzz
Sarris, impressed: news.google.com/newspapers?i...
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@flmfrkcentral.bsky.social: filmfreakcentral.net/2003/07/lovi...
@talkhouse.bsky.social: www.talkhouse.com/the-70s-seen...

Definitely would go t bat for your first three here . . .

Looking Back at a Half-Forgotten Pioneer of Method Acting Marlon Brando was often credited as the first Method movie star, but that honor rightly belongs to John Garfield.

BOTD John Garfield!!
Hounded by HUAC
MCCT5: 5)Breaking Point 4)Fallen Sparrow 3)Ran All the Way 2)Force of Evil 1)Body & Soul
More:
John Prine 🙏: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3UT...
@martykudlac.bsky.social: cineuropa.org/newsdetail/4...
@isaacbutler.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

Minimalist Excess: On Wim Wenders’ Kings of the Road - BW/DR It would seem paradoxical for a film to be both excessive and minimalist, and yet this synthesis is exactly what Wenders achieves with Kings of the Road, taking a storyline so small that it strains th...

3/4/76: Wim Wenders' Kings of the Road [DP Robby Müller]
w/Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler
Epic minimalism
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@glennkenny.bsky.social: mubi.com/en/notebook/...
@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/goings-on-ab...
E Warren/ @brightwalldarkroom.com: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2019/04/05/w...

One Battle After Another: On the Movie, the Critics, and the Moment - Bright Lights Film Journal For a popular entertainment, One Battle is ultimately hopeful but not pandering. Viewers do not leave the theater with the spoon-fed feel-good reassurances offered by a Rocky or a Star[...]

New From Us - On OBAA, via BLFJ:
"Entertaining, beautiful, accomplished, and depressingly timely"
"But to gain admission into the pantheon of the truly great, a movie must pass what can be dubbed 'the Scorsese test'"
"By this metric, One Battle falls short"

brightlightsfilm.com/one-battle-a...

In this week's That 70s Movie Podcast, we went into the wheatfields with Terrence Malick's beloved Days of Heaven
But as we did not belove this visually arresting stunner, we spent half the episode honoring Mr. Robert Duvall:

open.spotify.com/episode/4hgZ...

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Classic Corner: Lola — Crooked Marquee Jacques Demy’s enchanting, heartsick 1961 debut isn’t a musical, but that’s not for lack of trying.

3/3/61: Jacques Demy's debut feature/New Wave landmark Lola [DP Raoul Coutard], w/Anouk Aimée
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Veronika Ferdman: www.slantmagazine.com/film/jacques...
Ginette Vincendeau: www.criterion.com/current/post...
@splicedpersonality.bsky.social: crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...

Observe the birth of the modern police procedural in Jules Dassin’s “The Naked City,” restored via the Criterion Collection. From modern programs like Lucifer, The Flash, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Blue Bloods to more classic ones like Law and Order, The Mod Squad, and Hill Street Blues, each of these procedural variants ow…

3/3/48: Jules Dassin's The Naked City
Landmark NYC procedural
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@spectrumculture.bsky.social: spectrumculture.com/2021/04/26/r...
Sragow on Goldstein doc: www.criterion.com/current/post...
@elmntsofmadness.bsky.social: elementsofmadness.com/2020/09/07/t...

Thx x2!!

3/3/74: Wim Wenders' Alice in the Cities
From us, via NLR: "One of the cinematic achievements of the 1970s": newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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@glennkenny.bsky.social: mubi.com/en/notebook/...
@davidheslin.bsky.social / @sensesofcinema.bsky.social: www.sensesofcinema.com/2014/cteq/th...

Sils Maria

"Summer Hours" - Salon.com The director of "Irma Vep" offers a wistful portrait of a family struggling to let go of their late mother's belongings -- and the mysteries they contain.

3/3/08 Olivier Assayas' sublime, profound Summer Hours
From us - Our Q&A w/Assayas @ NYFF: midcenturycinema.org/2019/10/08/n...
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@celizotte.bsky.social: www.reverseshot.org/symposiums/e...
@noelmu.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/hoppers-revew
@szacharek.bsky.social: www.salon.com/2009/05/15/s...

Thanks Much!!

One Battle After Another: On the Movie, the Critics, and the Moment - Bright Lights Film Journal For a popular entertainment, One Battle is ultimately hopeful but not pandering. Viewers do not leave the theater with the spoon-fed feel-good reassurances offered by a Rocky or a Star[...]

New From Us - On OBAA, via BLFJ:
"Entertaining, beautiful, accomplished, and depressingly timely"
"But to gain admission into the pantheon of the truly great, a movie must pass what can be dubbed 'the Scorsese test'"
"By this metric, One Battle falls short"

brightlightsfilm.com/one-battle-a...

In this week's That 70s Movie Podcast, we went into the wheatfields with Terrence Malick's beloved Days of Heaven
But as we did not belove this visually arresting stunner, we spent half the episode honoring Mr. Robert Duvall:

open.spotify.com/episode/4hgZ...

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

The Velvet Underground - Coyote YouTube video by Dcee730

Missing Lou a bit on his BD
No, we never met
Love this, + the solo @ 2:35 ➡️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-avf...