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Favorite films

  • His Girl Friday
  • The Color of Pomegranates
  • Infinite Football
  • Red Psalm

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  • The Birdcage

  • Lost Soulz

  • Divine Intervention

  • A Prince

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  • Ballet

    Ballet

    ★★★½

    Wiseman on the scene with Jane the administrator yelling at Lincoln Center over the phone: “when you come across a sequence like that you think you’ve lived a clean and moral life and that God is on your side.”

  • The Romance of Astrea and Celadon

    The Romance of Astrea and Celadon

    ★★★★½

    The young Latin/Greek teacher ends his filmmaking career with an adaptation perfectly suited to his lifelong interests. It is worth noting that the source novel is 5,000 pages long, what percentage of which I have absolutely no idea how much this movie represents.

    Hylas may be one of my favorite Rohmer characters, a chaos gremlin sent to upend every “respectable” claim about love or fidelity espoused by any other character. And how expansive this film can be: there's time enough…