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2023

★★★★★ Liked Watched 25 Feb 2025

Paul Vecchiali cries throughout the whole film. The first instance occurs within the first few minutes when Vecchiali’s character reunites with his estranged son, played by Pascal Cervo, the actor known for his roles in many of Vecchiali's late digital films. Later, he becomes emotional as he reflects on friends and lovers who are no longer with him. The ones he can no longer call or write to. He nearly tears up while discussing Ford (“7 Women is my favorite”).…

1952

★★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2018

Erik Ulrichsen's 1952 review of The Quiet Man. I have highlighted specific paragraphs that demonstrate why I find Ulrichsen to be Denmark's most important/only important critic.
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Many kilometers of junk had run across the screen before our puzzled eyes at the 13th Venice Film Festival. There had only been a few highlights: Some unusual short films by American James Broughton (not in competition) and René Clement's excellent children's film “Jeux Interdits”. Otherwise, conventional documentaries from England, hysterical melodrama from…

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1950

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched 20 May 2022

Transcription of Pedro Costa’s introduction at the Cinematheque Stockholm, May 20, 2022:

"I don’t want to bother you with too much talking because if you know Tourneur’s film, they don’t talk much. They speak very softly. So, for now, two or three things... This is a very special film. I think Tourneur said it was his favorite of his own films. It must have been. It looks like something he wanted to do for a long time. It’s not a…

2006

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched 01 Aug 2016

In an essay about 'In Vanda’s Room', Thom Andersen writes that it has been critiqued for portraying poverty, issues of immigration, and drug abuse to the point of miserabilism. Defending Costa, Andersen writes that: “those who regard In Vanda’s Room as a misérabiliste … simply haven’t seen it … They have seen the actions but not the images”. One aspect of Andersen’s point is that the film doesn’t show images of the world’s misery, but its beauty. Adapting Andersen’s argument…

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