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Volume #217 - Whit Stillman
The Last Days of Disco (1998)
Barcelona (1994)
Metropolitan (1990)
2002 Sight & Sound Challenge: 318 Last Watched: Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Last 7 Films Watched: Sugar - B+ / Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone - B / The Lower Depths - B / Downhill Racer - B+ / Whatever Works - B / The Legend of Jimmy the Greek - B
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- Location: St. Louis, MO
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1. Barcelona - B+ (Witty comedy portraying an "ugly American" naval officer visiting his mild-mannered brother in the titular city.)
2. The Last Days of Disco - B+
3. Metropolitan - B- (Remember when director's first films looked like a first film? Metropolitan is one of these.)
Own: 0
Edited by Brook K - 11/3/09 at 10:45am
2002 Sight & Sound Challenge: 318 Last Watched: Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Last 7 Films Watched: Sugar - B+ / Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone - B / The Lower Depths - B / Downhill Racer - B+ / Whatever Works - B / The Legend of Jimmy the Greek - B
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Same old, same old. Never seen, never even heard of.
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock"My great humility is just one of the many reasons that I...
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Saw Barcelona and recall being thoroughly underwhelmed.
They flutter behind you, your possible pasts.
Some bright-eyed and crazy, some frightened and lost.
- Joined: March 2005
- Post Count: 378
Last Days of Disco - A- (at the top of my "Comtemporary Movies I Need On DVD" list.
I don't care for modern films. All crashing cars and close-ups of people's feet.
-Lillian Gish
Why I\'m Poor And Skinny
- Joined: February 2000
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Metropolitan - B-
2002 Sight & Sound Challenge: 318 Last Watched: Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Last 7 Films Watched: Sugar - B+ / Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone - B / The Lower Depths - B / Downhill Racer - B+ / Whatever Works - B / The Legend of Jimmy the Greek - B
- Joined: February 2000
- Location: St. Louis, MO
- Post Count: 9,036
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The Last Days of Disco - B+
Love me some Chris Eigeman!
2002 Sight & Sound Challenge: 318 Last Watched: Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Last 7 Films Watched: Sugar - B+ / Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone - B / The Lower Depths - B / Downhill Racer - B+ / Whatever Works - B / The Legend of Jimmy the Greek - B
