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Aug 6, 2023Liked by Robert F. Graboyes

As a UNC film major, we spent long hours over beer, burgers and coffee debating the celluloid of the days gone by. The great directors ... Wells, Hitchcock, Wertmuller and Truffaut. ... Pekinpah

The hours of film that have washed over me then and since are innumerable.

In Atlanta my frequent haunt was the Film Forum showing the likes of Man Friday, The Ruling Class, Harold and Maude and The King of Hearts which, oddly they always paired with Bambi Meets Godzilla as a short at the beginning

:smiles in remembrance:

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Aug 6, 2023Liked by Robert F. Graboyes

Were most of the ballots unfolded?

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Aug 6, 2023Liked by Robert F. Graboyes

Reminds of me "Used Innocence." Wow, what a brain destroying waste of 95 minutes. Also, it featured a character named Bambi!

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Aug 6, 2023Liked by Robert F. Graboyes

saw it at nyu, as a cinema grad student. chantal akerman attended. she was in town fir the premiere of her commercial flop tgat starred wm hurt and j binoche, a couch in ny. the other grad students loved it. i hated it. compression is one of the hallmarks of movie story-telling, and the movie chosr not to ude it, instead making us suffer the tedium and boredom of the main chatacter. this was the artistic choice of the director, on the anti-bourgoise postmodernists love as it proved, in their minds, that the role of homemaker and mother and wife are degrading, dehumanuzing and anti-femininist. and thats why it won this poll, too: ideology over aesthetics. the star of the film, the beautiful delphine seyrig - buried in the cemetery montpatnasde, also starred in last year at marienbaf, a masterpiece of surrealism.

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This review of yours reminds me of why I rarely care to watch movies and often end up having contempt for the time I wasted at it. Kudos!

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Oddly enough, my wife and I were scrolling through the films available to us on TCM and came across this last night. Alerted to its #1 Sight and Sound ranking by your article, we started watching. Although impressed with Jeanne's potato boiling prowess at the beginning, we quickly decided to "cleanse our palates" by watching an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

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Exactly! But thanks to your article we only spent 10 minutes with our fingers in our ears

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Aug 7, 2023Liked by Robert F. Graboyes

Adam Arkin… great director

Casting superb

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