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Wallace Shawn recommended Brief Encounter (1945) in Movies (curated)

Brief Encounter (1945)

1945 | Drama, Romance

9.3

(3 Ratings)

Movie Favorite

"I adore that film also. I believe Noël Coward is a shared passion of ours. Since I was a very young man, I have always been in love with the various recordings of his nightclub performances, and among those twentieth-century performers who have died, he’s sort of my favorite. And you gave me that incredible collection of his letters, each one of which is more or less engraved on my heart."

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Kasi Lemmons recommended Fish Tank (2010) in Movies (curated)

Fish Tank (2010)

2010 | International, Drama

(0 Ratings)

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"I first saw this film when I started seeking out movies directed by women. This one stood out. There’s something so believable about that lead character—she’s a teenager I can understand. I loved her anger and her passion, and I was touched by her relationship with her mother. And I find Michael Fassbender’s performance so creepy in the midst of all this mundaneness, which Andrea Arnold depicts in such a raw and powerful way."

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Atom Egoyan recommended Vivre sa vie : Film en douze tableaux [My Life to Live] (1962) in Movies (curated)

"I made a short film for the sixtieth anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival (Artaud Double Bill), which is a meditation on the scene where Anna Karina goes into a cinema to watch Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc and sees Antonin Artaud on-screen. Something about this sequence seemed to define the essence of cinephilia. Perhaps it’s just the thought of seeing actors watch another film within a film I’m watching."

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Lupita Nyong'o recommended Saga in Books (curated)

Saga

Brian K. Vaughan | 2012 | Comics & Graphic Novels

9.2

(21 Ratings)

Book Favorite

"A friend of mine recommended it as a good introduction to comic book reading for adults, and I latched onto it. It’s Romeo and Juliet passion meets Star Wars epic and Game of Thrones provocativeness but with sharp and witty dialogue and incredibly imaginative illustration. My favorite character: Lying Cat: a cat that, instead of meowing, says, ‘lying’ every time someone lies in its presence – now that’s a superpower I would want!"

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