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Alan Arkin recommended Gomorrah (2008) in Movies (curated)

Gomorrah (2008)

2008 | Crime, Drama, International

6.8

(4 Ratings)

Movie Favorite

"Another film that feels like a documentary. Garrone has managed to take all the sentimental glamour out of the Mafia—which sneaks into a lot of films on the subject—and shows it to be the frightening, feeling-less business that it must be. Paradoxically, the lack of emotion is what gives the film its power, and what ultimately makes it so moving and memorable."

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Rian Johnson recommended F for Fake (1973) in Movies (curated)

F for Fake (1973)

1973 | Documentary

(0 Ratings)

Movie Favorite

"Poetic and oh-so-funky, Orson Welles’s filmic essay on deception has balls of experimental steel. Cobbled together in his later years of European exile, it’s both a cheeky thesis on the nature of fakery and the best example I can imagine of filmmaking as giddy, childlike play. Now if someone would only do a decent DVD of The Trial, we’d be in business. (Nudge, nudge.)"

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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated The Light of Hidden Flowers in Books

Oct 5, 2020

Missy is 35, accomplished, intelligent, caring and it seems, happily single. Missy is also afraid of breaking out of her secure world. Then her father dies, leaving her a note that shakes her to her core. Read my review of this lovely novel about a quiet woman who becomes a heroine for the 21st century, here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2015/11/07/the-business-of-compassion/