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An Angel at My Table (1990) dir. Jane Campion
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A glorious pre-The Piano Jane Campion film about the life and times of Campion's fellow New Zealander, the author Janet Frame. The story is not upbeat (Frame was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and institutionalized for years) but a stubborn current of hope runs through all three chronological chapters, each one played by a different actor. Campion initially prepared the story as a TV miniseries and applied a more straightforward visual style than we expect from her other, more expressive work. The result is an intimate experience that keeps us tightly focused on this singular, captivating figure as she goes through her ups and rather down-y downs. It's a little weird to call it a treat but I don't think you'll disagree if you give it a go. If you do, please enjoy.
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Gosford Park
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Watching Gosford Park is the answer to many of life's small-scale problems. Were you unsatisfied by the latest Knives Out and/or much of Downton Abbey? Do you miss Maggie Smith? Are you someone who prefers rain but you live in a drought-prone region? Etc. Gosford Park is Robert Altman for people who like Agatha Christie via Jean Renoir but actually none of that matters because it's just a great movie with a truly epic cast. 2001 was an amazing year for movies and I rewatch lots of those films but I find many people slept on this one, perhaps because its smooth edges felt out of step with the times. It's been my honor over the years to squeal at anybody who tells me they've never seen it. Please enjoy.
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Enjoy a private theater
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Apparently ~10% of AMC movie showings sell zero tickets. This site finds them. Throw on your best sparkly striped two-piece suit and enjoy a private theater.
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The Swimmer (1968)
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Woefully underrated movie starring the endlessly charismatic Burt Lancaster as Ned, a man who decides to swim home one summer day through all his neighbor's pools in the upper middle class suburbs of Connecticut. If you're slightly confused but intrigued, you'll love it. It's a perfect entry into the midcentury white suburban malaise sub-genre that I personally love, based on a very good short story by John Cheever that first appeared in the New Yorker in 1964.
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The Secret Agent (2025)
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I thought this was just about perfect. A Brazilian friend of mine was concerned that North Americans wouldn’t find it interesting without the historical context (and I’m sure some background reading on the military dictatorship in the 70s wouldn’t hurt) but I experienced it as an outstanding political thriller——intimate, funny and universal in its portrayal of fear, violence and love.
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Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
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Inscrutable in a very sleek, extremely stylized, slightly upsetting way. If you’ve seen Melancholia, you’ll see some pieces from its mood board here.
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Colin Firth’s house in A Single Man
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Tell me you wouldn't give your life to put on lots of black eyeliner and lie on a shag carpet with Colin Firth smoking pink cigarettes. The film was shot at the Schaffer Residence in Glendale, built by architect John Lautner in 1949 for the mother of one of his employees.
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Alexandra Clark
Helvetica (Gary Hustwit)
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This great rec by @Alexandra Clark makes me want to rewatch that whole little series with Objectified and Urbanized and--and--gets me excited to check out Gary Hustwit's whacky, generative Brian Eno doc when it premieres on the Criterion Channel next month.
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Harlan County, USA (1976)
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A special May Day rec for this Barbara Kopple documentary which plops you in the midst of a Kentucky coal miner strike circa 1973. It's harrowing and painful and also somehow hopeful. Watch if you like: bearing witness to the struggle of the working class; politically charged folk music; Direct Cinema-style docs like Grey Gardens.
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
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This movie is a very good, very tense, and very funny time. Great eyewear, too.
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Le Cinéma Club
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A very chic streaming platform that programs one cool movie a week for free, globally, with special attention paid to short films. Many great discoveries await you!
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Sense and Sensibility (1995), dir. Ang Lee
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A very good rainy day movie, possibly the best J.A. adaptation (c/o Emma Thompson). Everyone is a bit sad, a bit damp, a bit manic and beef is too expensive.
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kogonada video essays
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Very pretty, very satisfying little educations on directorial motifs, etc.
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PlayTime (Jacques Tati)
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Jacques Tati in general, really! Functionally wordless and all the more beautiful for it.
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Eephus
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I don't understand baseball in any meaningful sense but baseball movies are somehow the best? Watch if you like: low-stakes arguments; New England in the fall; the films of Frederick Wiseman
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The American Friend
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Wim Wenders adapts Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game as an existential thriller so thick with atmosphere that—per Roger Ebert in his 1977 review—“we’re almost swimming in it” <<LAPL has 7 copies of the Criterion DVD!>>
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