Movies Watched -- The Lobster (2016)

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119 minute running time so at least 20 minutes too long, but I liked this one, it was weirdly wonderful and wonderfully weird … quite a few scenes almost made me fall out of my chair laughing … maybe I was in the mood for this … if I had been less patient, I might have seen it as hopelessly pretentious or contrived, but no, I loved it in the end, it’s just hilarious. I have to watch this crazy Greek director’s other stuff now. A mainstream audience would hate this movie, but the critics no doubt praised it endlessly, I’ll have to check. (Yes, they did, and yes, they did.)

Green-go! John Farr got it right this time.

… you have very beautiful hair and very nice breasts. [My Little Pony]

… you have very beautiful hair and very nice breasts. [My Little Pony]

Movies Watched -- Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (2019)

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Documentary. 95 minute running time … always loved Linda Ronstadt, what a voice, didn’t know about her inventor grandfather (mom’s side), or half-Mexican? grandfather (dad’s side) … or growing up in Tucson … or her Parkinson’s … or any of it, really, but now I do … she led an interesting life and is a sharp cookie. I enjoyed the documentary.

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Young Linda singing Different Drum:

Movies Watched -- On the Beach at Night Alone (2017)

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In Korean. 101 minute running time. The Koreans have reached the level of economic development where they can now make pointless talk talk talk movies like this one … who gives a shit about this girl and her old fart boyfriend? It’s true that she’s attractive and looks a bit like my old buddy Sara Jane, but really, who cares? John Farr did me dirty by recommending this one, but I can steer you right and say give this one a miss!

It’s boring to talk about yourself all the time, isn’t it?

It’s boring to talk about yourself all the time, isn’t it?

Movies Watched -- The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)

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96 minute running time … tells the story of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who unwittingly set John Wilkes Booth leg following the Lincoln assassination, and was convicted of being a conspirator and sent to Dry Tortugas as a result … he escaped and was re-captured and eventually was exonerated … interesting story pretty well told by director John Ford … Farr says Ford blends fact and fiction, but that’s OK.

Hiya Judas

Hiya Judas

Movies Watched -- Three Identical Strangers (2018)

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Documentary. 96 minute running time. SPOILERS … interesting story about a psychiatrist named Peter Neubauer who ran an experiment of separating twins (and one set of triplets) at birth by giving them to different types of adoptive parents to raise to see what the results would be … he used a Jewish adoption agency in New York City to help with this task. Ethically questionable but fascinating, the final study has never been published, apparently locked up until 2066, when all the participants will be dead (study ran from 1960-1980).

This is like Nazi shit

This is like Nazi shit

Movies Watched -- Shoplifters (2018)

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In Japanese. 121 minute running time so at least 20 minutes too long … slow at first, all of the revelation happens in the last 30 minutes or so, and it turns around everything that came before … I liked it in the end and can see why it won the Palme d’Or, although it did indulge the fantasy that these people living on the margins are truly happy, much happier than any conformist squares, which is nonsense of course. Sakuro Ando is beautiful and gave the most impressive performance, I thought. This is a winner, a green-go.

But sometimes, it's better to choose your own family.

But sometimes, it's better to choose your own family.