Joseph Finn

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5 months ago

A ★★★ review of BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes, and Sadomasochism (1995) A pretty solid documentary about the state lesbian leather S&M at the time and the arguments to make people understand it's not some kind of sick thing,

#285: BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes, and Sadomasochism (1995) - Pretty solid documentary about S&M of the time.

★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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5 months ago

A ★★★ review of BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes, and Sadomasochism (1995) A pretty solid documentary about the state lesbian leather S&M at the time and the arguments to make people understand it's not some kind of sick thing,

#285: BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes, and Sadomasochism (1995) - Pretty solid documentary about S&M of the time.

★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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5 months ago

A ★★★★★ review of Buddies (1985) Bless the Decades Project for getting me to watch something this amazing. A story of two gay men, one dying of AIDS in 1985 and the other volunteering to be his companion while they are suffering a pl...

#282: Buddies (1985) - Why yes, this wrecked me.

★★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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5 months ago

A ★★★★★ review of Buddies (1985) Bless the Decades Project for getting me to watch something this amazing. A story of two gay men, one dying of AIDS in 1985 and the other volunteering to be his companion while they are suffering a pl...

#282: Buddies (1985) - Why yes, this wrecked me.

★★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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5 months ago

A ★★★★★ review of Sholay (1975) Action! Excitement! More crazy action! It's no wonder this is well regarded in film circles, a wild ride of a tale of two crooks hired by a police inspector to go after a bandit because he thinks ther...

#277: Sholay (1975) - My god is this a blast of fun.

★★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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5 months ago

A ★★★★★ review of Sholay (1975) Action! Excitement! More crazy action! It's no wonder this is well regarded in film circles, a wild ride of a tale of two crooks hired by a police inspector to go after a bandit because he thinks ther...

#277: Sholay (1975) - My god is this a blast of fun.

★★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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6 months ago

A ★★★★ review of Pierrot le Fou (1965) OK, being realistic, a lot of Godard bounces off me. I'm mid on Breathless, for instance. Alphaville is science fiction made by someone who doesn't seem like he understands science fiction. But for so...

#260: Pierrot le fou (1965) - So weird and colorful and entertaining, even as the bodies hit the floor

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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6 months ago

A ★★★★ review of Pierrot le Fou (1965) OK, being realistic, a lot of Godard bounces off me. I'm mid on Breathless, for instance. Alphaville is science fiction made by someone who doesn't seem like he understands science fiction. But for so...

#260: Pierrot le fou (1965) - So weird and colorful and entertaining, even as the bodies hit the floor.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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6 months ago

A ★★★★ review of Forever a Woman (1955) Sad but never mawkish, this tale of a woman suffering a divorce and the breakup of her family and a double mastectomy should be dreary but it's also still full of sad hope that doesn't always get real...

#257: The Eternal Breasts (1955) - Heartfelt and touching but never mawkish.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

@josephfinn.bsky.social

6 months ago

A ★★★★ review of Forever a Woman (1955) Sad but never mawkish, this tale of a woman suffering a divorce and the breakup of her family and a double mastectomy should be dreary but it's also still full of sad hope that doesn't always get real...

#257: The Eternal Breasts (1955) - Heartfelt and touching but never mawkish.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

@josephfinn.bsky.social

6 months ago

A ★★★½ review of Scarlet Street (1945) It's a very solid noir but I think it suffers from just one twist too many. But that's a little beside the point because we've got a damn interesting acting trio of people trying to pull one over with...

#254: Scarlet Street (1945) - One plot twist too many but it’s very cool to see a different version of Edward G. Robinson.

★★★ 1/2 / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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6 months ago

A ★★★½ review of Scarlet Street (1945) It's a very solid noir but I think it suffers from just one twist too many. But that's a little beside the point because we've got a damn interesting acting trio of people trying to pull one over with...

#254: Scarlet Street (1945) - One plot twist too many but it’s very cool to see a different version of Edward G. Robinson.

★★★ 1/2 / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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6 months ago

A ★★★½ review of The Beast (1975) Is it a beautiful movie? Absolutely. Is there a ton of weird nudity of both the human and the equine varieties? Yep. Is it kind of a weird take on both Alice In Wonderland and Beauty & The Beast? Sure...

#253: The Beast (La Bête, 1975) - Let’s be clear, there’s a pretty racist element to this movie, beautifully shot as it is.

★★★ 1/2 / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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6 months ago

A ★★★½ review of The Beast (1975) Is it a beautiful movie? Absolutely. Is there a ton of weird nudity of both the human and the equine varieties? Yep. Is it kind of a weird take on both Alice In Wonderland and Beauty & The Beast? Sure...

#253: The Beast (La Bête, 1975) - Let’s be clear, there’s a pretty racist element to this movie, beautifully shot as it is.

★★★ 1/2 / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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7 months ago

A ★★★★ review of Variety (1925) Mesmerizing and a great example of how silent film was by no means primitive; the cinematography in this is absolutely excellent, with some motion shots that were simply perfect. And the story is up t...

#242: Variety (Varieté, 1925) - Yep, that’s the good stuff, a German silent movie full of obsession and betrayal and some really cool cinematography.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

@josephfinn.bsky.social

7 months ago

A ★★★★ review of Variety (1925) Mesmerizing and a great example of how silent film was by no means primitive; the cinematography in this is absolutely excellent, with some motion shots that were simply perfect. And the story is up t...

#242: Variety (Varieté, 1925) - Yep, that’s the good stuff, a German silent movie full of obsession and betrayal and some really cool cinematography.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

@josephfinn.bsky.social

8 months ago

A ★★★★ review of In Jackson Heights (2015) An hour in I was starring to get restless, thinking that perhaps Wiseman could learn to trim a bit. But after that I started to become transfixed as this moves from conversation to performance to stre...

#236: In Jackson Heights (2015) - Sprawling and maybe a tad too long but it’s a lovely and thoughtful look at a neighborhood.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

@josephfinn.bsky.social

8 months ago

A ★★★★ review of In Jackson Heights (2015) An hour in I was starring to get restless, thinking that perhaps Wiseman could learn to trim a bit. But after that I started to become transfixed as this moves from conversation to performance to stre...

#236: In Jackson Heights (2015) - Sprawling and maybe a tad too long but it’s a lovely and thoughtful look at a neighborhood.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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8 months ago

A ★★★★ review of The Aggressives (2005) A very solid documentary about six male-presenting people living in New York and their relationships, their jobs and families and how they each have their own ideas about how to present themselves in ...

#228: The Aggressives  (2005) - A really interesting look at 6 male-presenting people in NYC from 1998-2003 and I need to catch up on the update from 2024.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

@josephfinn.bsky.social

8 months ago

A ★★★★ review of The Aggressives (2005) A very solid documentary about six male-presenting people living in New York and their relationships, their jobs and families and how they each have their own ideas about how to present themselves in ...

#228: The Aggressives  (2005) - A really interesting look at 6 male-presenting people in NYC from 1998-2003 and I need to catch up on the update from 2024.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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8 months ago

A ★★★½ review of Empire Records (1995) Look, I was 22 when this came out and it somehow missed me at the time though it probably would have been right up my alley. This is right in the Reality Bites mode of "don't be a sellout" nonsense of...

#220: Empire Records (1995) - Pretty standard as a hangout movie but Maxwell Caulfield shows up and just elevates the heck out of it.

★★★ 1/2 / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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8 months ago

A ★★★½ review of Empire Records (1995) Look, I was 22 when this came out and it somehow missed me at the time though it probably would have been right up my alley. This is right in the Reality Bites mode of "don't be a sellout" nonsense of...

#220: Empire Records (1995) - Pretty standard as a hangout movie but Maxwell Caulfield shows up and just elevates the heck out of it.

★★★ 1/2 / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

@josephfinn.bsky.social

8 months ago

A ★★★½ review of Shinjuku Boys (1995) Really interesting look at three men working in a Japanese karaoke club who just happen to be transgender and what that means in their particular society and in the society of their friends and relati...

#201: Shinjuku Boys (1995) - Really interesting doc about onabe working at a club in Tokyo.

★★★ 1/2 / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

@josephfinn.bsky.social

8 months ago

A ★★★½ review of Shinjuku Boys (1995) Really interesting look at three men working in a Japanese karaoke club who just happen to be transgender and what that means in their particular society and in the society of their friends and relati...

#201: Shinjuku Boys (1995) - Really interesting doc about onabe working at a club in Tokyo.

★★★ 1/2 / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

@josephfinn.bsky.social

8 months ago

A ★★★★ review of The Pied Piper (1985) A masterpiece of stone and wood and puppetry about the legend we all know of Hamelin and how the piper led all the rats out, then was cheated and then led all the children away. Except this goes in a ...

#187: Pied Piper (1985) - Would be much higher except for the use of live rats.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

@josephfinn.bsky.social

8 months ago

A ★★★★ review of The Pied Piper (1985) A masterpiece of stone and wood and puppetry about the legend we all know of Hamelin and how the piper led all the rats out, then was cheated and then led all the children away. Except this goes in a ...

#187: Pied Piper (1985) - Would be much higher except for the use of live rats.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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9 months ago

A ★★★★ review of God's Country (1985) In 1979 Louis Malle visits the town of Glencoe, MN, a farming community that's pretty white, pretty German and is the epitome of smaller town where everyone knows each other, the Dairy Queen is one of...

#180: Gods Country (1985) - As always, I hope Reagan is in hell.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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9 months ago

A ★★★★ review of God's Country (1985) In 1979 Louis Malle visits the town of Glencoe, MN, a farming community that's pretty white, pretty German and is the epitome of smaller town where everyone knows each other, the Dairy Queen is one of...

#180: Gods Country (1985) - As always, I hope Reagan is in hell.

★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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9 months ago

A ★★★★★ review of Manila in the Claws of Light (1975) Jesus, this feels like it should be homework, a tale of a young man following his love to Manila from a fishing town after she's moved to the city for a supposed education and factory job but has stop...

#176: Manila In The Claws Of Light (1975) - Tragic of course, but never a slog.

★★★★★ / ★★★★★

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Joseph Finn

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9 months ago

A ★★★★★ review of Manila in the Claws of Light (1975) Jesus, this feels like it should be homework, a tale of a young man following his love to Manila from a fishing town after she's moved to the city for a supposed education and factory job but has stop...

#176: Manila In The Claws Of Light (1975) - Tragic of course, but never a slog.

★★★★★ / ★★★★★

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