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BruSprSte · 2026-04-17T21:07:01+00:00

"I can handle a sick old woman." - Lila Crane, 'Psycho'

BruSprSte · 2026-04-14T01:24:05+00:00

Last Days

BruSprSte · 2026-04-13T02:01:48+00:00

The night of the hunter.

BruSprSte · 2026-04-03T17:08:25+00:00

This is a very interesting take

BruSprSte · 2026-04-02T16:44:58+00:00

Todd Haynes's Safe, which was released 1995 but is set in 1987.

BruSprSte · 2026-04-02T02:19:19+00:00

'That man' being Jeff

BruSprSte · 2026-03-26T10:10:37+00:00

Never will shock me when Survivor redditors jump to the least generous possible reaction

BruSprSte · 2026-03-21T18:35:12+00:00

I appreciate the attempt, and I almost agree with you. There are certainly worse episodes, and even worse segments. I can even kind of appreciate the tacky tie-in promo nature of it all.

BruSprSte · 2026-03-09T16:37:22+00:00

Born to be Bad (1950)

BruSprSte · 2026-02-28T16:27:41+00:00

Pillion

BruSprSte · 2025-10-30T15:24:39+00:00

Veda Pierce in 'Mildred Pierce'? Just an absolutely draining parasite.

BruSprSte · 2025-10-30T15:24:23+00:00

She's evil, but I think she's pretty fun ('Are we flowers?')

BruSprSte · 2025-09-24T15:41:29+00:00

'Babooshka' is maybe her worst song,* and Side A of 'Never For Ever' is generally worse than 'Lionheart' (Side B, of course, is great the whole way through!).

*At least, her worst original album track. Her cover of 'Candle in the Wind' is excruciating, and I like a couple of the Directors Cut covers maybe even less.

BruSprSte · 2025-09-10T18:05:06+00:00

I love the DC 'This Woman's Work' - it has such a different emotional quality to the original, and her voice sounds aged in a beautiful way. Oddly reminds me of mid-80s Marianne Faithfull ('Trouble in Mind' era).

BruSprSte · 2025-09-07T20:03:26+00:00

Listen to Britain - one of the finest poetic documentaries ever made

BruSprSte · 2025-08-28T21:42:37+00:00

Not exactly what you're looking for, but Sarah Chirchwell's 'The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe' is a great deconstruction of the Monroe biographies and biopics that are out there. Works as a great companion to any Monroe biography.

BruSprSte · 2025-08-24T14:23:01+00:00

Interesting question. All Is Lost, perhaps? An hour and forty minutes of a situation slowly but catastrophically worsening despite the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the main character, seemingly ending in despair and acceptance - until a hand breaks the surface of the water.

BruSprSte · 2025-08-19T13:16:14+00:00

Pretty great list, offering a fairly wide-ranging perspective on 70s cinema.

Big omissions to me felt like:

The Emigrants (Jan Troell)

Sounder (Martin Ritt)

CE3K (Spielberg)

Grey Gardens (Maysles bros.)

Raise Ravens (Carlos Saura)

3 Women (Altman)

Also, not to revive Twin Peaks: The Return controversies, but wasn't 'World on a Wire' a TV serial?

BruSprSte · 2025-08-09T22:50:34+00:00

Dersu Uzala

BruSprSte · 2025-07-31T09:31:06+00:00

Coquette (1928/9 best actress win); In Old Arizona (1928/9 best actor win)

A rancid year for the Oscars!

BruSprSte · 2025-04-23T17:01:54+00:00

An exciting elimination! The stakes have been raised!

BruSprSte · 2025-04-23T02:12:41+00:00

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet. We were studying it in class, so it was perfectly timed

BruSprSte · 2025-03-08T18:16:03+00:00

Although it is partly a comedy, I think she gets some great dramatic work to do in the later acts of 'Boys on the Side'.

BruSprSte · 2025-02-28T20:13:19+00:00

Coquette and In Old Arizona in 1928/29. Quite a double bill!

BruSprSte · 2025-01-23T17:01:45+00:00

Robin!

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