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2025

Watched 11 Jun 2025

I’ve been thinking Wes has been leaning distinctly Roy Andersson lately so never would have expected this marked turn toward The Archers but I am here for it.

1953

Watched 08 Jun 2025

The focus Oscar Levant puts into 30 seconds of “dancing” in the “That’s Entertainment!” number 😅

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1995

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Programmed on a gorgeous 35mm from the Academy Film Archive thanks to king Barry Dale Johnson and got to meet Elizabeth Berkley and see how much this night meant to her and then met her parents and while peeking at the monitors back stage watched her tell them “Dad come over here this scene is safe you can watch this one” was the most wholesome thing I’ve ever seen.

1991

★★★★ Added

Shot on location in the desolate daytime desertscape of Las Vegas, Nevada, Menkes’ third feature-length film, which premiered in competition at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival, is a subversive rumination on isolation and despair. Following the titular “queen,” a casino blackjack dealer played by Nina’s long-time collaborator and sister Tinka, the work unfolds in a Jeanne Dielman-esque patience. “The female protagonist is both deeply estranged and psychically powerful,” says Menkes of her film. “Her loner position is the backside of centuries of Western Heroes: she stands in the center as a watcher and victim of a system which is starting to crack.”

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