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CITIZEN
KANE (dir: Orson Welles, Not Rated) -
Michelle says, "It’s a little silly for me to review this
movie, especially when others have written reams about cinema’s
most important film. So I guess I could just ruin it and tell you
what “Rosebud!” refers to. But instead, I’ll point out that
the dude who dies whispering “Rosebud” lives in a mansion called
Xanadu, the namesake of that awesome Olivia Newton John movie. Thus
Orson Welles’s directorial debut clearly ties to a disco
roller-skating musical extravaganza – one that also explores the
trajectory of our lives, and the power of inspiration and ambition
to pave the dream paths upon which we all eventually crash and die.
Hah, smarty-pants movie critics! Bet you never thought of
that!" |
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DUMBO
(dir: Ben Sharpsteen, Not Rated) - Michelle says, "I associate
elephants with memory, not just based on the cliché, but because I
saw some documentary clip on YouTube featuring elephants that
remembered each other after like a generation of being separated. It
made me cry to see them reunited, all wrapping their long trunks
around each other lovingly, and they weren’t even related. So
think how this kid movie, with a mommy and a baby elephant separated
then rejoined, affects my hormonally-powered aesthetic? And how
about those crazy jazzy crows, Disney’s best impression of people
of color in the 1940s? Plus, your kid will certainly appreciate the
creepy hallucination scene, when Baby Dumbo and his buddy the mouse
get wasted, halfway through. What a movie!" |
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49TH
PARALLEL (dir: Michael
Powell, Not Rated) - Bart says,
"This WWII-set adventure film follows a group of German
soldiers stranded in Canada when their U-boat is sunk as they try to
make their way to the then-still-neutral USA. Sure, it's propaganda
- these Nazis couldn't be nastier - but it's surprisingly
successful at wringing suspense from its episodic
structure in which a series of ordinary citizens,
including Laurence Olivier as a happy-go-lucky French-Canadian
trapper, must prove themselves heroic against a band of roving
villains." |
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