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John’s Favorite 1990’s Movies

18 Tuesday Feb 2020

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1990: Pretty Woman I always dreamed of Richard Gere, (or some other generic salt-and-pepper daddy), to sweep me off my feet and carry me away.

1991: My Own Private Idaho

1992: Fried Green Tomatoes

1993: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?

1994: Fresh Superbly well-written and acted, a chess prodigy making real-life moves to save his and his sister’s lives

1995: Pulp Fiction

1996: Fargo

1997: The Ice Storm “The Ice Storm is about two dysfunctional New Canaan, Connecticut, upper-class families who are trying to deal with tumultuous social changes of the early 1970’s, and their escapism through alcohol, adultery, and sexual experimentation.” *starring one of my earliest, longest lasting crushes: Henry Czerny

1998: As Good as it Gets

1999: Shakespeare in Love

1996: Basquiat My most honorable mention and my favorite modern artist, with David Bowie as Andy Warhol

Other favorites: The Object of My Affection, The Joy Luck Club, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Grace of My Heart, (I was in love with Bruce Davison, right along with Illeana Douglas), Corrina, Corrina, White Men Can’t Jump, Crooklyn, Sabrina, Reality Bites, Poetic Justice, Muriel’s Wedding

American Honey

28 Saturday Jan 2017

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Young and fresh and so different! Sasha Lane was getting some (small) Oscar buzz, and I live for the fantastic Riley Keough (the Girlfriend Experience and Elvis’s granddaughter)…amazingly still very good with loser Labeouf in some scenes (he def ain’t the star)

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Jared Leto

02 Sunday Mar 2014

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Jared Leto

“To all the dreamers out there around the world watching this tonight in places like Ukraine and Venezuela, I want to to say we are here, and as you struggle to make your dreams happen and live the impossible, we are thinking of you tonight.”

“This is for the 36 million people who have lost the battle to AIDS. And to those of you who have ever felt injustice because of who you are and who you love, I stand here in front of the world with you and for you.”

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O Brother, Where Art Thou?

27 Thursday Feb 2014

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A 2000 comedy film written, produced, edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson, with John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning in supporting roles. Set in 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression, the film’s story is a modern satire loosely based on Homer’s Odyssey.

Sirens had the gift of singing in a very seductive manner. Sailors were enchanted by their voice and condemned to stay on their island forever and die. All over the island of the Faiakes, there were bones of sailors who weren’t able to resist the Sirens’ divine melody.

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I am Lauren Bacall

23 Sunday Feb 2014

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I am Lauren Bacall

I took Playbuzz’s “Which Hollywood Bombshell Are You?”

You love the 1940s and film noir. You’re partial to an older beau, but you are smart and in control. You are beautiful, but wouldn’t describe yourself as a pin-up girl. You’re the wonderful Lauren Bacall!

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The Best Offer

23 Sunday Feb 2014

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I went to see Inside Llewyn Davis this afternoon, and fortunately the Best Offer had taken it’s place at the little art house theater. Go see this movie ASAP if you love the idea of love and you can appreciate art…or if you can appreciate love and love art, that works as well.

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Darwin’s Nightmare

02 Tuesday Apr 2013

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This documentary centers around Tanzania, and the desperate plight of her people. The Nile perch is not a fish indigenous to Africa. It was introduced into Lake Victoria (probably by European tourists) and it flourished, decimating all the local fish. Now there are huge factories that process the perch and send it to Europe for sale, while the Tanzanian people slowly starve. The documentary also reveals that the planes transporting the perch also move other cargo (guns and drugs).

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Beasts of the Southern Wild – 2012

26 Saturday Jan 2013

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You will fall in love with Hushpuppy when you meet her. I was emotionally exhausted after seeing this movie, wanting to help her and parent her and protect her as she so bravely struggles. Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the movie is also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.

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Sense and Sensibility – Love is not Love

23 Wednesday Jan 2013

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“Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds
Or bends with the remover to remove
Oh no, it is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests
and is never shaken”

Willoughby breaks Marianne’s heart, she almost dies after he deserts her…

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City of God -2002

15 Tuesday Jan 2013

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The City of God is one of the most dangerous, crime-ridden and impoverished slums of Rio de Janeiro…the gritty realism, the poverty, the hope, the hopelessness of the Cidade de Deus on display make this one of the best movies ever directed.

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The Ice Storm

05 Saturday Jan 2013

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Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood, Tobey Maguire, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Allen, Allison Janney, my boyfriends Henry Czerny and Kevin Kline…and Katie Holmes before her lobotomy.

Directed by Ang Lee

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Requiem for a Dream – 2000

29 Saturday Dec 2012

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Fascinating, horrible, dirty, terrifying…watching Jared Leto, Jennifer Connolly, Ellen Burstyn and Marlon Wayans slowly be destroyed by their drug addictions. Graphic, troubling, skin-crawlingly uncomfortable…nightmarish and fantastic at the same time.

Summertime – 1955

18 Tuesday Dec 2012

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Piazza San Marco

I fell in love with the beautiful Rossano Brazzi right along with Katharine Hepburn, even though I knew he was going to break our (her) heart. We (Katharine & I) fell in love with Venice as well.