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Quotes of better days

The only thing worse than being incompetent,
or being unkind or being evil, is being indecisive.

Thoroughbreds (2017)

Poetry doesn’t belong to those who write.
It belongs to those who need it.

Il Postino (1994)

It’s like, when you don’t know someone, they’re more interesting.
They can be anything you want them to be.

Sing Street (2016)

We crave the mistery
because there is none left.

Under the Silver Lake (2018)

This must be the station they told me about, with the funny name.
Not the station where the train stopped, but the station where the station stopped.

Der Himmel über Berlin (1987)

Week In, Week Out

Movies of the Week #9 (2021)

5 Mar 2021
Fourteen (2019): This is a powerful, lesser known drama about two friends, Mara and Jo, one sober and pragmatic, the other exuberant and quirky, and the frustrating dynamic between them.…
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Movies of the Week #7-8 (2021)

26 Feb 2021
Holiday (1938): It's good to see that even going back to the 1930s, there were people thinking of ways to retire in their 30s - if only they'd had some…
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Movies of the Week #6 (2021)

12 Feb 2021
In & of Itself (2020): A surprising find (from the HBR podcast), Derek DelGaudio's "documentary" is the rare example of an engrossing one-man performance that's both clever and insightful, without…
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Movies of the Week #5 (2021)

5 Feb 2021
The Dig (2020): A good period piece is always enjoyable and, for the most part, The Dig is just that. Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan are fascinating to watch in…
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Movies of the Week #4 (2021)

29 Jan 2021
Une fille facile (2019): A little dormant gem on Netflix, Rebecca Zlotowski's An Easy Girl is a coming of age story that turned out considerably more wholesome than I expected.…
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Movies of the Week #3 (2021)

22 Jan 202129 Jan 2021
See You Yesterday (2019): We're back in the Bronx, this time with a time-travel story that proves considerably more impactful than last week's vampire saga. In a way it's funny,…
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Movies of the Week #2 (2021)

15 Jan 2021
Minari (2020): We're getting close to awards season, Minari being one of this year's contenders - and definitely a movie I relished. Looking at familiar tales of family and patriarchal…
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Movies of the Week #1 (2021)

10 Jan 202112 Jan 2021
Requiem for a Dream (2000): So why not start the year with something shocking and daunting? Twenty years ago, Aronofsky rocked our puny world with his ramped up, drug infused…
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Movies of the Week #51 #52 (2020)

27 Dec 202010 Jan 2021
The End of the Tour (2015): This movie set me on a four-year adventure of reading Infinite Jest, which I finally finished last week. So, naturally, I immediately re-watched James…
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Movies of the Week #48-50 (2020)

19 Dec 2020
Heroes (2020): Coming from Manish Pandey, writer and executive producer on Senna (2010), this latest documentary on the lives, careers and intertwined fates of five memorable racing drivers of the…
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Movies of the Week #46 #47 (2020)

29 Nov 2020
All the Real Girls (2003): You know those movies all sweet and dripping with melancholy like your highschool crush as she pushes herself up against the edge of the swimming…
Week In, Week Out

Movies of the Week #45 (2020)

13 Nov 202013 Nov 2020
During the last few days, I eked beyond the mark of 3,500 movies watched. That's over 6,000 hours, but still some way to go until I round out a full…

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