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Christmas Special Recommendation: A Christmas Story (1983)

Dir.: Bob Clark

Cast.: Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, Peter Billingsley, Ian Petrella, Scott Schwartz.

Genre: Comedy

Plot: Christmas is approaching and 9 year-old Ralphie wants only one thing: a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun. When the big day arrives he gets lots of present under the tree including a lovely gift from his aunt that his mother just adores. But what about the BB gun?

Filmphilics score: 7'5/10

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Miss Julie (1951) dir. Alf Sjöberg

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The Unforgivable (2021)

– What else do you remember? – There’s music. And a woman close to me, but I can’t make out who it is. I don’t know what she was to me.

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Clockers, 1995, Spike Lee

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2️⃣5️⃣ Un flic (1972)

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Have Dreams, Will Travel (2007)

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No lady’s dangerous if you know how to handle her.

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios (1988) dir. Pedro Almodóvar.

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The flowers of David Lynch

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Polka dots. In the whole world, only Nathan Detroit could blow a thousand bucks on polka dots.

Guys and Dolls (Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1955)

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Did you get what you came here for? You know why I did it? Because you wanted to.

No Man of God, dir. Amber Sealey, 2021

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every morning their shoes were found to be quite worn through as if they had been danced in all night

An Angel at My Table (1990) | dir. Jane Campion

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Films watched in 2021.

65: The Front Page (Billy Wilder, 1974)

★★★★★★☆☆☆☆

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The Eye [Gin gwai] (2002) dir. Danny & Oxide Chun Pang

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Camp de Thiaroye (1988)

Director - Ousmane Sembène, Cinematography - Smaïl Lakhdar-Hamina

“They’ve called on you to persuade us. Are there two rules in the military - one for whites and one for blacks? A right is neither discussed or negotiated. We’re back from Europe where we fought your enemies, now we fight for Africa.”

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“I haven’t found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.”

RIP Sean Connery (25 August, 1930 –31 October, 2020)

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Il generale Della Rovere  1959

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Then you be damned. The Last Duel (2021) dir. Ridley Scott