Tokyo Story
Tokyo Story is a 1953 film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama, and Setsuko Hara. Often listed among the...
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Crazy Rich Asians
Before I watched this one I didn't know what to expect, and I almost gave it a pass because it looked too sappy. Crazy Rich Asians (2018)...
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A Good Man in Africa
William Boyd's novel A Good Man in Africa (1981) follows the misadventures of Morgan Leafy, a hopelessly self-centered employee of the...
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The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon (1941) is considered by some to be the starting point for the film noir movement. I'd recently watched Fritz Lang's...
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Kwaidan
Kwaidan (1965) (meaning "ghost stories") is a 182-minute horror film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. Based on works by Lafcadio Hearn,...
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Rolling Thunder Revue
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019) chronicles a freewheeling concert tour (Rolling Thunder Revue) and...
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Lolita (1997)
Adrian Lyne’s version of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, starring Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella, and Dominique Swain, came...
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Lolita (1962)
While Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita (1962), based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, is a fairly light adaptation of the book, incorporating...
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M (1951)
After watching the classic thriller M (1931), directed by Fritz Lang, I wanted to see the 1951 Hollywood noir version, directed by Joseph...
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Lolita
Lolita—Never have I wanted to get through to the end of a book so quickly. Written by Vladimir Nabokov and published in 1955, this novel...
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M (1931)
From Austrian-German-American filmmaker Fritz Lang, this classic German thriller, M (1931), often makes it into lists of top 100 best...
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French Exit
French Exit (2018) is the latest novel by Canadian author Patrick deWitt, who gave us The Sisters Brothers (2011), later adapted into a...
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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Hedy Lamarr once said, “Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.” The Austrian-born actress is the...
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Nobody Knows
Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda (known also for Maborosi (1995) and Our Little Sister (2015)) breaks the viewer's heart with Nobody...
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Elle
Provocative, disturbing and shocking, darkly funny, neo-noir and offensive, the film Elle (2016) invites an abundance of words to...
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At the Strangers' Gate
When Adam Gopnik's At the Strangers' Gate (2018) isn't irritating and inaccessible in its verbosity, it's highly entertaining and...
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White Heat
White Heat (1949) starring James Cagney and Virginia Mayo is considered a classic. This gangster-prison noir film, as it's called, treats...
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The Story of Tomoda and Matsunaga
Junichiro Tanizaki (1886–1965) is considered to be among the greats of modern Japanese literature. The Story of Tomoda and Matsunaga...
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The Other Side of the Wind
After They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead (2018), a documentary by Morgan Neville about the making of Orson Welles’ final production, The Other...
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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead (2018) is a documentary film about the grueling making of a film, which is about the making of a film...
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