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Dennis Lehane recommended Mona Lisa (1986) in Movies (curated)

 
Mona Lisa (1986)
Mona Lisa (1986)
1986 | Drama, Mystery, Romance
7.5 (2 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"My favorite film of the eighties. Maybe Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris and Robert De Niro in Raging Bull can compare with Bob Hoskins’s performance here, but very few others can. Who else could have fully mined the depths of unrequited love and authentic heartbreak while wearing a pair of glittery, heart-shaped sunglasses? Who else could have so completely personified the rage, hope, humor, pathos, and cruel decency at the heart of Neil Jordan’s dreamy masterpiece? No one. Absolutely no one."

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Guy Maddin recommended Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits) (1952) in Movies (curated)

 
Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits) (1952)
Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits) (1952)
1952 | International, Classics, Drama
(0 Ratings)
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"For me, the most devastating childhood remembrance film—if that’s what it is. The story is too remarkable and strange to be fiction. Six-year-old Brigitte Fossey—trying to make sense of her just-witnessed parents’ deaths by urgently assembling a beautiful little animal graveyard—might just nudge out Dean Stockwell as my all-time favorite child star, and she makes me cry a lot more! Comedy mixed in with such sadness, sadness, sadness!!! This is early childhood distilled and put in a very dangerous bottle!"

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Jenni Olson recommended Brief Encounter (1945) in Movies (curated)

 
Brief Encounter (1945)
Brief Encounter (1945)
1945 | Drama, Romance
9.3 (3 Ratings)
Movie Favorite Watch

"“It all started on an ordinary day, in the most ordinary place in the world.”—Brief Encounter David Lean’s depictions of two ordinary women (Celia Johnson’s Laura and Katharine Hepburn’s Jane) restraining their desires for Trevor Howard and Rosanno Brazzi, respectively, are two of my all-time favorite cinematic portrayals of forbidden heterosexual love. Incidentally, both use the writing of gay playwrights as source material: Brief Encounter is based on Noël Coward’s Still Life, and Summertime adapts Arthur Laurents’s The Time of the Cuckoo."

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Karley Sciortino recommended White Noise in Books (curated)

 
White Noise
White Noise
Don DeLillo | 2011 | Fiction & Poetry
4.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"If I had to choose my number 1 favorite book of all time, it would be this. (And as this is widely considered one of the great American novels, I’m clearly not the only person who’s been hugely affected by it.) White Noise uses the story of a college professor and his family in small Midwestern town to explore American paranoia, consumerism, and novelty academic intellectualism. I love this book for its ability to to be dark, beautiful, smart, and hysterically funny, all at the same time."

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