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The Bad and the Beautiful 1952

★★★★★ Rewatched 26 Nov 2023

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“Some of the best movies are made by people working together who hate each other's guts.”
The Bad and the Beautiful is a rich tribute to collaboration in filmmaking.
Unlike other behind-the-scenes industry films that, while brilliant, cynically condemn Hollywood, here director Vincente Minnelli thrives by existing in a far more gray area. Kirk Doulgas, as producer Jonathan Shields, is both charming and evil. He is a genius in decision-making but a brute in how he handles his relationships.
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Breathless 1960

★★★★★ Rewatched 14 Mar 2023

Jean-Paul Belmondo is a goofball in Breathless.
Despite attempts to emulate the cool and sophisticated persona of Humphrey Bogart, Belmondo’s Michael merely comes across as a child playing pretend. But it is with this failure that we become completely charmed by his character.
It is difficult not to love one so hopelessly out of his league. Regardless of his murder, cheating, and thievery, one cannot help but smile as reality regularly puts Michael in his place.
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All That Jazz 1979

★★★★★ Rewatched 28 Jun 2022

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In All That Jazz, director Bob Fosse utilizes a chaotic period of his own life to thoroughly examine his relationships, morals and overall purpose. The result is among the closest examples of what a diary put to film would look like.
Joe Gideon produces great art. He loves his girlfriend. He wants to live. But are these beliefs and desires genuine? Gideon, as Fosse's proxy, admits that he has lost trace of what is truth and what is mere posturing.…
In a Lonely Place 1950

★★★★★ Rewatched 11 Jun 2022

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While we may witness the events that kick off the plot of In a Lonely Place, Nicholas Ray masterfully maintains suspense by having us continually question whether the film itself was truthful in what was or was not shown.
Like all noirs the script is loaded with cynicism, of which Gloria Grahame plays off of so effortlessly well.
When first questioned at the police station, Grahame's remarkable talent is on full display as her every glance and motion builds upon…