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Movies of the Week #7 (2026): Genius, Divorce, and the Masks We Wear
This week’s movies cover performance as survival: genius and jealousy on imperial stages, a gentle divorce finding new purpose at open mics, and rented relationships that blur comfort with fraud. Even the apocalypse becomes a road-trip for connection, where style outpaces story and the dead grind on. Across eras and genres, you return to the… Read more
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Movies of the Week #50 (2023)
Man with a Movie Camera (1929): I picked this up for no clear reason whatsoever and with just as little background knowledge. Dziga Vertov’s “urban life” cinematic diary is amazing. Without a narrative, it just shows instances of the day to day, but with such dynamic vibrancy that the movie feels way ahead of its… Read more
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