John Cazale was in only five films – The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather, Part Two, Dog Day Afternoon, and The Deer Hunter – each was nominated for Best Picture. Yet today most people don’t even know his name. I KNEW IT WAS YOU is a fresh tour through movies that defined a generation.

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A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next book by night.

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Joel and Ethan Coen’s Fargo is a refreshingly original and complexly taut film that operates on a multifaceted level that is, all at once: compelling, macabre, funny, tragic, and even romantic. From the opening sequence of a car navigating agilely through an endless snow covered road with a car in tow, the Coen brothers deftly craft a highly engaging and comically sinister contemporary masterpiece. Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy), a Minneapolis car salesman, arranges to meet with two petty criminals in a Fargo bar, Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) and Gaear Grimsrud (Peter Stormare). His plan: to have his wife kidnapped and, consequently, extort money from his wealthy, but selfish, father-in-law. His down payment for their services: a burnt umber Sierra stolen from his father-in-law’s dealership. Driving back from Minneapolis, the kidnappers are stopped by a state trooper on an empty stretch of road in Brainerd for a minor registration violation, where events begin to go horribly wrong, resulting in the death of three people. A very pregnant Chief Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) is called in to investigate the crime scene, and solve the murders.

The pervasive theme of isolation is an essential element that is carefully woven through several aspects of the film. Note the birdseye view of Jerry returning to his car after being turned down for a loan, the upward shot of the ominous Paul Bunyan statue, and the barren winter landscape. Even a seemingly incongruous encounter with a former classmate is a portrait of alienation. The film is an exploration of the consequences of isolation: from the curious dialect of the townspeople to the desperate measures undertaken by Jerry in order to secure capital for a business venture. Fargo is a humorous, acerbic, and fascinating journey through American culture: through small-town gangsters, lounge acts, all-you-can-eat buffets…and senseless violence.

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“Had The Death of Stalin been made in the 1950s, it might have been called Carry on Comrade—and yet it suggests the venerable mantra, “think Yiddish, act” (or “dress” or “look”) “British.” The Death of Stalin is not as funny or as transgressive as The Producers but it has some of the same flavor. The spirit is less that of a Punch and Judy show than a Purimshpiel—particularly those Purim plays that, performed for and by Holocaust survivors in the immediate aftermath of WWII, conflated Haman with Hitler.

What suffering gave Iannucci license to make Stalin a joke? And how accurate is his movie? While few might agree with the historian Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov’s theory that Stalin was poisoned by Beria, perhaps with Khrushchev’s knowledge, both men, as well as other members of the Politburo, had reason to believe themselves the targets of the impending purge. (The obscure Ukrainian apparatchik Semyon Ignatyev, who was then in charge of Stalin’s security and was an ally of his landsman Khrushchev was certainly a player in the palace intrigue, if not a character in the movie.)

In keeping with its attitude, The Death of Stalin advances a novel theory of the dictator’s demise—his fatal stroke is brought on by a fit of laughter provoked by a feeble attempt by a young concert pianist (Olga Kurylenko) to challenge his authority. Plenty of stuff is, however, too crazy to have been invented by the filmmakers. The opening scene, in which a Mozart concert has to be repeated with the audience kept in their seats because terrified technicians forgot to record it per Stalin’s request, did in fact (or legend) occur, albeit a decade earlier during WWII. Stalin was a music lover. Strains of Mozart are subsequently heard in Beria’s Lubyanka dungeon.”

From J. Hoberman’s review: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/the-death-of-stalin-by-way-of-monty-python

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A young man goes to prison and a tough, older convict takes him under his wing as a mentor.

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A Tom Waits song in movie form, Steve Buscemi’s directorial debut is a semi-autobiographical account of a barfly in his thirties who inherits an ice cream truck. The impressive extended cast includes Carol Kane, Anthony LaPaglia, Mimi Rogers, Seymour Cassel, the lovely Eszter Balint, and many others.

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This ultimate tribute to all independent filmmakers takes place during one day on the set of a non-budget movie.

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