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Directed by: Agnès Varda

The great Agnès Varda's film career began with this graceful, penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the locals, Varda's discursive, gorgeously filmed debut was radical enough to later be considered one of the progenitors of the coming French New Wave.

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CD Smiles added Giant to wanted list

 Giant 

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January 16th Directed by: Agnès Varda The fact that this was Varda's first film just completely blows my mind. Would you believe that some imagery later made iconic by Ingmar Bergman would be seen here first? Varda was a photographer before she decided to make this film and surely the talent would transfer over but that hardly explains the way the camera moves. The only explanation is Varda is a visionary savant who was born to make films.

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January 15th Directed by: François Truffaut People say Truffaut has no real discernible style, and I would definitely agree that he doesn't have a singular, overarching style his entire career, but that's not to say there's no flair to these films. It is interesting how he never seems to do anything exciting visually on purpose. There's definitely a lot of fantastic images in this film (and others of course) but it's never in a way that screams "look at this" like it is with most directors. His style is in service to the story. A story which I have no clue about. Nowadays, everyone wants to say something with a film and even moreso audiences expect a film to have something to say. Bed & Board just sort of happens. It is a continuation of the Antoine Doinel character but Truffaut has changed so much as a filmmaker, these films don't resemble each other at all. He would continue to do so.

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CD Smiles added 1 item to Top Ten Movies of 2011 list

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January 15th Directed by: Joachim Trier More often than not I don't like movies like this one. I wouldn't say it's exactly like what one would expect from a bleak Scandinavian drama about a recovering drug addict, it's not just bad getting worse the whole time, in fact it's not that at all. The film is only 90 minutes and somehow feels even shorter than that, instead of trying to depress you with the protagonist's misfortune, the film lingers on the happy moments with a quiet reflection on his strife always on the back of your mind. It all comes together in the ending which seemed a little hamfisted and preachy to me at first, but if you think about it in context of how the film opened, and the other vignette sequences in the film it's brilliant.

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CD Smiles rated I Shot Jesse James

 I Shot Jesse James 7/10

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January 15th Directed by: Sidney Lumet This film is an adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending. Thinking about it under that title makes it a little bit more interesting to me. I would describe this film as interesting though, certainly moreso at the beginning. There's a lot of potential here, but it just kind of descends into meandering, and not interesting meandering. I don't know if that's the fault of the playwright or Sidney Lumet.

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CD Smiles added Loveless to wanted list

 Loveless 

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CD Smiles added Æon Flux to wanted list

 Æon Flux 

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CD Smiles added Seven Women in Prison to wanted list

 Seven Women in Prison 

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January 11th Directed by: Woody Allen (This is going to sound very familiar) The first 4 minutes of Manhattan could be taken away and designated as it's own little short film and I would love that. I'd honestly recommend the movie just for that. The film appears in black and white like Woody Allen's character describes how he sees it in the opening, and there's something about New York in black and white that elevates it and makes it so charming. Otherwise, I'd say this is pretty standard Woody Allen fare, which is to say it's really good.

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January 10th Directed by: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger The first 10 - 15 minutes of this movie are so fucking fantastic, so epic in scope, unfortunately the film gets quite a bit less interesting visually and otherwise afterwards but c'mon, this is Powell and Pressburger, you know it still looked amazing. This film was definitely almost a favorite of mine, the story I think nowadays would be seen as "preachy", I would be guilty of this probably, but the message is so genuine and so lovely that I don't care if they hit me over the head with it.

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CD Smiles added National Gallery to wanted list

 National Gallery 

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