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Ethan Hawke recommended Reds (1981) in Movies (curated)

Reds (1981)

1981 | Classics, Drama, Romance

9.0

(2 Ratings)

Movie Favorite

"Warren Beatty directed, about the life of John Reed. Jack Nicholson is Eugene O’Neill, one of his greatest performances. It combines everything I love about movies: great acting, unbelievable romance, and politics. Sondheim did the music, Elaine May helped write it. It’s kind of the bar. I just think of what cinema can accomplish. It’s like a great, great novel, only better. And with one of the great endings of all time. Just so beautiful."

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Kazu Kibuishi recommended La Grande illusion (Grand Illusion) (1938) in Movies (curated)

La Grande illusion (Grand Illusion) (1938)

1938 | International, Classics, Drama

(0 Ratings)

Movie Favorite

"The fact that this is down at number 9 on this list goes to show how difficult it has been to make the list. I’m a real sucker for seeing down-to-earth human interaction trump the machinery of politics during wartime, and this is a film that documents the idea of a “gentleman’s war” as a dying concept, and does it very well. Erich Von Stroheim’s performance is also magnificent and timeless."

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Michael Barker recommended Contempt (1963) in Movies (curated)

Contempt (1963)

1963 | Drama, Romance

(0 Ratings)

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"A visual and aural feast. The best movie ever made about moviemaking. Greece and Brigitte Bardot provide the purest form of seduction; Jack Palance provides the sleaziest. The subtext that explains the title is sexual politics at its most provocative. Every frame of this movie is invigorating. Cinematographer Raoul Coutard and composer Georges Delerue deserve to be canonized. The already anointed Fritz Lang, playing himself, gives the film yet another pleasurable dimension of film truth."

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