JPFerguson
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| 40 13% | 51 Birch Street (2005) - Rated 24 Apr 2024
"I do admire the candour of Doug Block and his father Mike, but I do question whether this film would have been better off as a home movie (which is exactly the same criticism I have of Kirsten Johnson's 'Dick Johnson Is Dead'). I find Doug's narration quite annoying, and his constant response of "nope" to Mike comes across as childish and suggests that Doug is one boring dude."
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| 70 74% | A Married Couple (1969) - Rated 23 Apr 2024
"Obviously this fails Wiseman's 'bullshit test' for a documentary, but just as obviously King is aiming for something different here, but also it's not quite docudrama or docufiction. It is more akin to the highly performative and melodramatic 'Grey Gardens'. But even then, the story of the Edwards is portrayed much more cinematically than the Maysles brothers' film. So, it's a unique film, and highly entertaining, even if not as remarkable as some might claim."
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| 85 93% | Warrendale (1967) - Rated 22 Apr 2024
"This is a spectacle, not in form - as in the way in which King and colleagues portray events - but in content. By that I mean that so much of what is shown is what is wrong with institutional care, and so much of what is shown is what is good about caring for other individuals. It is this intense combination of good and bad which makes it impossible to look away or block your ears. The scene in which the children are informed of Dorothy's death exemplifies this. A remarkable film."
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| 65 64% | The Dark Past (1948) - Rated 21 Apr 2024
"As Ted Danson says to his estranged on-screen daughter in the TV show 'Bored to Death'; "Freud is very important." Lee J. Cobb as Dr Andrew Collins is such a badass in this. His scenes with William Holden are genuinely compelling."
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| 70 74% | Evil Does Not Exist (2023) - Rated 20 Apr 2024
"A story not so much about saving the environment as people trying to save themselves. Moments of salvation that don't come to pass."
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| 55 41% | Cage of Evil (1960) - Rated 19 Apr 2024
"Exactly what it says on the label, but with unexpected sass. "Remember honey you, ah, never surrender on a double murder charge. You just don't do that sort of thing.""
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| 60 54% | Tower (2016) - Rated 18 Apr 2024
"The combination of archival audio/video and rotoscoped dramatisation and interviews work surprisingly effectively to convey the gravitas and sadness of this tragedy. Although, the tacking on to the end of news footage from recent mass shootings does cheapen the experience."
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| 65 64% | The Brandon Teena Story (1998) - Rated 17 Apr 2024
"What gets me is the surprising honesty of these Nebraskan rednecks, all except of course for John Lotter and Thomas Nissen. As I was watching this, it felt in an odd way like a non-existent Korine film ('Gummo' was released a year earlier in 1997), and then I realised afterwards that it was the basis for 'Boys Don't Cry' that features Chloë Sevigny as Lana Tisdel (Sevigny at the time was Korine's girlfriend). The film really does feel like a tribute to Brandon, Lisa, and Philip, as it should."
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| 70 74% | The Garden (2005) - Rated 16 Apr 2024
"Certainly essential viewing for the Wiseman completionist, and if you've seen one Wiseman film then you ought to feel compelled to see them all. Even in the somewhat compromised form in which it is available - a VHS rip - it is still better than most documentaries. Confirms my belief that circuses are weird."
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| 40 13% | The Love Witch (2016) - Rated 15 Apr 2024
"The thing is, I think the men in this are alright! In particular, Wayne seems like a good dude. I wonder if Naomi Wolf has seen this? And, yes, it did not need to go for two hours."
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