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Tortoise Wins by a Hare 1943
Pure Cinema. Bugs Bunny as a manic Captain Ahab obsessed with getting vengeance on Cecil Turtle. The short opens with recycled footage of the first Bugs/Cecil short only to reveal Bugs stewing over it with hate in his heart. These shorts where he strives and panics and whines and flips out are like dispatches from a better world where Bugs was unburdened with greatness and allowed to flex dramatic and low status muscles that would atrophy in the fifties. As…
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The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat 1897
Didn’t catch the end; I ran screaming from the theater in terror as a train approached the screen.
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Ænigma 1987
"I heard you were kicked out of the marines for cruelty"
A lot to love, here. I've seen some pretty lukewarm reviews of this thing and all I can say is: what the fuck movie were you watching? This is an unmistakable Fulci picture -gleefully mean spirited and funny- about a group of evil teen girls getting picked off in surreally violent ways after bullying Kathy and then chasing her with a car while they laughed at her. It's assembled like…
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The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! 1972
Excruciating and exhilarating, often at the same time and for the same reasons. Andy Milligan and Ed Wood occupy a similar corner of cinema. But where Ed Wood's best work is powered by an enthusiasm that couldn't be channeled cleanly into the language of cinema and could only be witnessed as an overwhelming ambiance that was documented on film, Milligan's engine seems to run on actual hate. He hates filming this movie. He hates these actors. He hates you for…
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Beetlejuice 1988
Thank GOD Tim Burton made this movie in 1988 and not 2008. Can you imagine what a piece of shit this would’ve been with a ton of green & purple CGI swirls and Johnny Depp as Beetlejuice? Goddamn.
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The Godfather 1972
“Do you renounce Satan and all his works?”
*Michael looks at the camera like Jim Halpert*