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3 things about Lee Isaac Chung’s MINARI

Minari [2020]

1. He notices the sky is green.
2. “Ding-dong broken.”
3. When it’s hiding, it’s more dangerous.

3 things about Ossie Davis’s COTTON COMES TO HARLEM

Cotton Comes to Harlem [1970]

1. Their squad car smashes into a truck carrying watermelons.
2. Neon sign for MAMA CHILI.
3. Fistfight in the prop room of the Apollo Theater.

3 things about Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt’s DIAMANTINO

Diamantino [2018]

1. “I have lumps.”
2. Moors, building a wall.
3. “Did that nun just say, ‘Fuck you?'”

3 things about Andrew Patterson’s THE VAST OF NIGHT

The Vast of Night [2019]

1. They knew that even if they talked, no one would listen to them.
2. Expertly threading the tape recorder, again and again.
3. Sprinting with the baby.

3 things about Errol Morris’s THE FOG OF WAR

The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara [2003]

1. On the roof of a trolley, a crowd of people wearing masks and cheering the end of the Great War.
2. Telegram to his fiancée: “My middle name is Strange.”
3. He equates himself with Norman Morrison.

3 things about Zach Snyder’s JUSTICE LEAGUE

Justice League [2021]

1. Evidently, if you’re a man, any man, you’ve got daddy issues.
2. Fake Martha Kent.
3. “She’s 5,000 years old, Barry. Every guy’s a younger guy.”

3 other things.

3 things about Jonathan Demme’s SOMETHING WILD

Something Wild [1986]

1. A watermelon-shaped zipper pouch.
2. David Byrne’s mom suggests he get rid of the handcuffs.
3. Smear of blood through his hair.

3 other things.

3 things about David Lowell Rich’s MADAME X

Madame X [1966]

1. Painted on eyebags.
2. Ricardo Montalban plays a character named … Phil Benton. And lives in a fabulous split-level bachelor pad in Manhattan.
3. Spanish Inquisition-themed nightclub.

3 things about Hal Ashby’s BEING THERE

Being There [1979]

1. Hal Ashby’s cameo in the newsroom! I’ve seen this film countless times and yet I never noticed it till now.
2. “I’m glad you didn’t open, Eve.”
3. He gently tends to the bent sapling.

3 things about Nicholas Roeg’s SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH

Sweet Bird of Youth [1989]

1. She wants him now and she means now, not later.
2. “Don’t call me ‘honey.’ I can’t stand being called ‘honey’ by unknown persons of the same gender.”
“What’s gender, honey?”
3. A nautically themed bar for Black patrons.