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OPERETTE (Willi Forst) One of these musical frivolities Forst specialized in, the sort of thing that generally charms me at first before beginning to wear out its welcome in the second half. The director/star obviously had a lot of fun making it, even though one would assume that 1940 was not really...

Darn, now you've got me curious.

Meanwhile: De Mayerling à Sarajevo is definitely lesser Ophüls. Given the story and the setting you'd think surefire Ophüls masterpiece, but it's rather pedestrian.

The Shop around the Corner The Mortal Storm His Girl Friday The Grapes of Wrath The Great Dictator Nobuko (Shimizu Hiroshi) City for Conquest (Anatole Litvak) The Philadelphia Story The Long Voyage Home Rebecca My Universities (Mark Donskoy) Traveling Actors (Naruse Mikio) Christmas in July Night T...

Triple threat: Peter Hutton v James Benning v Frederick Wiseman. Sounds like a good cure for insomnia. Well, I dunno, I don't mind me a good dull ole director's showdown, cos I think that everyone has a few pet figures they think are underappreciated (springing immediately to mind: Masashiro Shinod...

karl! hope all's been well with you i had a pretty rough 2018, flip. i don't recommend trying to start a business in uzbekistan. or tajikstan, either, for that matter. but now movin' on, tryin' somethin' new. gonna tryn get them good vibes back. life is easy and fun, or ought to be. https://www.you...

Through the Olive Trees Lamerica A Borrowed Life Vive L'amour To Live The Taebaek Mountains (Im Kwon-taek) Drunken Master II Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker We the Children of the XX Century (Vitaly Kanevsky) In the Heat of the Sun An Unforgettable Summer (Lucian Pintilie) Burnt by the Sun Chara...