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Martin Starr recommended Harold and Maude (1971) in Movies (curated)

Harold and Maude (1971)

1971 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

8.6

(5 Ratings)

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"This is not just because the movie has an ampersand in it like Amira & Sam. Even still, an off-color romantic comedy — it’s a comedy, but off-color because of the older woman and a younger man. It’s still something that movie artists don’t touch on and it’s not an impossible scenario. It’s one of those things that is difficult to get right, and Hal Ashby told such an amazing story of friendship and caring and love and fun and life."

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Guy Maddin recommended Pandora's Box (1929) in Movies (curated)

Pandora's Box (1929)

1929 | Classics, Drama, Romance

9.5

(2 Ratings)

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"The zenith for both Pabst and star Louise Brooks—the latter has become almost solely emblematic of the flapper age because of this film! Adapted from playwright Franz Wedekind’s story of Lulu, a preternaturally powerful beauty blithely strolling through the mating marshlands of the world, where nature is savagely cruel to both the pursuers and the pursued. Watch this film at different stages of your romantic life span and behold your sympathies shifting all over the place! Ouch! Gorgeous! Ouch, again!"

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sheryet (699 KP) rated Moulin Rouge! (2001) in Movies

Jun 2, 2021

Moulin Rouge! (2001)

2001 | Drama, Musical, Romance

8.2

(34 Ratings)

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A wonderfully tragic tale

This is one of those films that really brings you in and you just want to keep watching even though you know it has a tragic ending.
Both Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman are amazing, and the supporting cast is incredible. Then the music, well it is amazing. It is spot on for the era with modern music lyrics in there.
I absolutely love this film it is fun and romantic and just so colourful.

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Sloane Crosley recommended The Red Shoes (1948) in Movies (curated)

The Red Shoes (1948)

1948 | Classics, Drama, Musical

8.3

(3 Ratings)

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"This is the finest movie ever made about art and the romantic choices made by artists. I blame it only for the total crap it’s spawned on the same subject, some very recent. It’s almost too beautiful and too heartbreaking to think about, which only makes me want to stop typing and see it again. I know nothing about ballet or cinematography, but even I can tell when a movie is not merely a movie but an indelible imagination tattoo."

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Lena Dunham recommended Gone with the Wind in Books (curated)

Gone with the Wind

Helen Taylor | 2015 | Film & TV

8.0

(1 Ratings)

Book Favorite

"Want a thousand pages of pure romantic anxiety in which the biggest war in our nation’s history is just a mere backdrop for the heartache of a woman who should probably be in Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous? Then this is the book for you! I loved the descriptions of food when I was younger, and also of fashion and French kissing, and it’s a real master class in plot, pacing and how to sew a dress out of window decorations!"

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie recommended Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery in Books (curated)

Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery

John Gregory Brown | 1994 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry

(0 Ratings)

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"I have always been drawn to fiction that is written in sublime language and looks at the world through a romantic-realist lens, and this book does just that. It is the story of a White family in New Orleans, in the American South, and their Black servant; a story of race and love and family and dreams. It is filled with longing, melancholy and nostalgia, and it is so atmospheric, so hauntingly described, that the reader never quite emerges from the book."

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