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The last 20 movies I happened to see

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A View to a Kill (1985) Day of the Jackal (1973) The Living Daylights (1987) 21 Grams (2003) You Can't Take It with You (1938) The Libertine (2004) Little Children (2006) The Three Lives of Thomasina (1964) The Mikado (1939) Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010) The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) Flesh and the Devil (1926) (silent) Rocky Horror Picture Show (1974) The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) Toy Story 3 (2010) The Da Vinci Code (2006) The Freshman (1990) The Prince of Tides (1991) Happy Go Lovely (1951) State of Grace (1990) Marlon Brando, Penelope Ann Miller, Bruce Kirby, Matthew Broderick in The Freshman Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron, Grayson Russell in Diary of a Wimpy Kid Martyn Green as Ko-Ko in The Mikado (filmed in color) Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in Flesh and the Devil (silent) Edward Fox and Cyril Cusack in Day of the Jackal Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Donald Meeks, Edward Arnold, Spring Byi...

10 movies I watched in the past 3 weeks.

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Since Meera signed up for Netflix, I find my film-watching frequency has increased...the watch-it-or-lose it effect. Miller's Crossing (1990) Pornography (2009) Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) Rachel Getting Married (2008) Planet of the Apes (2001) Stranger than Fiction (2006) The Shaggy Dog (2006) Other Men's Women (1931) Office Space (1999) Jabberwocky (1977) Grant Withers and Joan Blondell in Other Men's Women Pete Scherer in Pornography Anne Hathaway and Rosemarie DeWitt in Rachel Getting Married Nobody told me just how bad Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes was, but I probably would have watched it anyway. As clumsy as the pacing and tone of Other Men's Women , the kiss, a pivotal scene in the film, was done with passion, power, and sensitivity. From the Forbidden Hollywood DVD series of TCM, which I highly recommend. Miller's Crossing , an old favorite when I hadn't seen since it came out, still the stunning film I remembered. Pornograp...