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  • Clueless

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    Clueless  (1995)

    "So what'd you do last night?"
    "I, uh, I watched Clueless."
    "How'd you like it?"
    "I thought it was terrific, I thought it was, uh, a terrific film."
    "Were you sober during all this?"
    "I think mostly."

  • La Chinoise

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    La Chinoise  (1967)

    For the first two thirds of this film I thought it looked amazing and was funny and Godard was pulling everything out of his bag of cool tricks, so I thought I'd just try to ignore the ridiculous Maoist politics that these kids were spouting the whole way through because, I mean it's stupid, but it was the 60s so I'll make some allowances even if I'll mark the film down for them in the long run. But then in the third act the film starts taking apart the whole thing and it's awesome. It's like Jean-Luc reached through the screen and bitch-slapped me, as if to say "You thought I'd believe shit like this? Who do you take me for? Vilgot Sjoman?", and I'd be all like "Nice 60s art film reference right there, Mr. G!", and he'd be all like "Thanks man, you're cool too," and we'd go eat croissants together. It was beautiful. And this is finally a Godard film in color that looks every bit as good as his black and white ones, so basically that's the reason you should see it.

  • Two-Lane Blacktop

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    This one has an atmosphere not quite like that of any movie I've ever seen, sort of in a way similar to Badlands without all that stuff happening or maybe what would happen if Antonioni directed a road movie. The unnamed characters drive around, talk shop, and challenge each other to vaguely defined and interminable races. Feelings of post-hippie malaise permeate. James Taylor, Dennis Wilson, and Laurie Bird aren't really called upon to act so much as they're called upon to sit around looking doped up, but they (particularly Taylor and Bird) do so to great effect. Warren Oates is alone among the stars actually doing some acting, and he does a good job of it. The only problem is that, in its attempts to evoke ennui it ends up just as often causing it. I had a hard time keeping still and focused for certain stretches, and suspect that a good half hour could've been cut off the film to positive effect. Still, I dug it.

 

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