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Trainspotting (1997)
“I get a very specific image in my head when I think about this movie,” De said as I excitedly hurled us down Danny Boyle’s most famous cinematic rabbit hole. “And I’m no… more →
Movies With De
Trainspotting (1997)
wrote 1 year ago: “I get a very specific image in my head when I think about this movie,” De said as I exc … more →
The finest French TV Series
wrote 1 year ago: The two very best French TV Series at Europeanmovies.org Here is our quick summary of the very best … more →
SubUrbia (1996)
wrote 1 year ago: The weirdest thing I’ve discovered about nostalgia since I invented the word in 1991 is how ev … more →
Escape From New York (1981)
wrote 1 year ago: “I heard you were dead,” goes the joke that recurs several times throughout Escape From … more →
The Passenger (1975)
wrote 1 year ago: If I had my way, all movies from the early 1970s would involve Jack Nicholson. It’s hard to im … more →
F for Fake (1973)
wrote 2 years ago: If Charles Foster Kane is really Orson Welles (and of course he is, obvious similarities to certain … more →
Velvet Goldmine (1998)
wrote 2 years ago: Imbedded within any “style over substance” criticism is usually the implication that the … more →
Mallrats (1995)
wrote 2 years ago: You might not expect Mallrats, Kevin Smith’s sophomore (and admittedly sophomoric) effort, to … more →
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
wrote 2 years ago: Much has been written (whole books, in fact) about the audacity of Billy Wilder’s frank exposé … more →
The Endless Summer (1966)
wrote 2 years ago: The term “misspent youth” is usually associated with the sort of basement drug abuse, su … more →
Wall Street (1987)
wrote 2 years ago: Though neither De nor I had seen Oliver Stone’s Wall Street until this summer, we’ve bee … more →
Easy Rider (1969)
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wrote 2 years ago: Regardless of whether or not we’re inclined toward the kind of lifestyle embodied by Wyatt, Pe … more →
The 'Burbs (1989)
wrote 2 years ago: If we didn’t have the evidence to support us, it would be hard to convince someone that the … more →
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974)
wrote 2 years ago: While it’s never been the explicit goal of this series to convince De to watch a type o … more →
Shadows (1959) / The Exiles (1961)
wrote 3 years ago: John Cassavettes never made much of an impression on mass audiences, but if imitation is flattery, i … more →
Tron (1982)
wrote 3 years ago: You can say what you want about Tron — that it was ahead of its time; that it defined an entir … more →
The Killing (1956)
wrote 3 years ago: The Killing feels like the kind of movie the Coen brothers might make today… If only Stanley K … more →
Metropolitan (1990)
wrote 3 years ago: Minutes into Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan, a young girl retreats to her bedroom in a rush of f … more →
Annie Hall (1977)
wrote 3 years ago: “Do I listen to pop music because I’m miserable or am I miserable because I listen to po … more →
