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No Concessions: “My Blueberry Nights”

Started by popdose · 1 year ago

Reviewed by Bob Cashill

Thirty years from now, My Blueberry Nights may be considered a good film. It may even be considered a great film. Let me explain.

Some years ago, I selected for my film-watching group (19 years old and still going strong) Michelangelo Anton ... Continue reading »

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  • kshane

    1 year ago

    I loved Zabriskie Point then, and I'd love to love it now. Alas it is not available on dvd. If there was any small amount of good that could have come out of the great director's death last year it would have been the release of Zabriskie Point on dvd.
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  • DwDunphy

    1 year ago

    The description of the imagery, the eye-rolling title, the constant assertions that drama doesn't conclude so much as it just peters out whimperingly all stink of pretense, as if Wong was trying to make a big statement with a parody of an art film only to make, ta-dah, an art film.

    And I can't buy into the concept of characters trying to "find themselves". It's an inherently selfish Boomer codeword for screwing around and getting by on burger-flipping, and in that I just can't possibly work up an iota of concern.
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  • Miss_Lisa

    1 year ago

    Wow, what a cast. It might not be a good film, but it would make a great Chanel No. 5 commercial.
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