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Two french films
Perhaps it's just having seen its latter incarnations, Stalag 17, The Great Escape, etc., but I found this film greatly overrated. Renoir's mixture of comic and bleak works in Rules of the Game, whose void leaves its audience to ponder society's vacuity. In The Grand Illusion, most of the jokes fall flat, and one is left questioning the point of the film.
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Lou Reed's Berlin
About three weeks ago I saw Lou Reed perform his 1973 album Berlin, live at Royal Albert Hall. I'm not a huge Velvet Underground fan, and I can't say I know all of Lou Reed's stuff either, but Berlin is definitely an amazing album.
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There Will Be Blood
Although I don't see many new films, I enjoyed There Will Be Blood tonight, even though I can relate to someecards' take on it.
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Film log
Ratings are on a scale of zero to ten.
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Chopper
Just watched Chopper (2001), which was not what I was expecting but worth seeing. When I heard it was about a likeable serial killer I expected something like Man Bites Dog, which it certainly is not. While one is attracted to the charisma of the latter's protagonist at times, he is much more callous and consistently sadistic, whereas Bana in Chopper plays a killer with a more ambivalent relationship to his own brutality (though overall it's an inferior film).
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