Inspired by @paulmasonnews I will try to create a list of films and vignettes that I couldn’t possibly live without, as recommended binging this Christmas weekend.

As a warmup, here’s Fred Astaire dancing drunk in “Holiday Inn.”
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And here’s what happened when Bette Davis didn’t get her way in “Of Human Bondage.” 2/
And here’s where Barbara Stanwyck learns Nietzsche in “Baby Face.” Yeah.
And here, Bette Davis performs Shakespeare drunk in “Dangerous.” Some true meta sh*t.
Richard Widmark wasn’t a racist, but he played one in Joseph Mankiewicz’ “No Way Out,” which features the exquisite debut of Sidney Poitier—playing a doctor who diagnosis Widmark’s cruelty as fear. Linda Darnell—a product of her environment—is perfection.
Been wearing ripped tights ever since seeing goddess Anna May Wong in “Piccadilly” dancing in the scullery. (15 min in).
The complexities of how poorly men and women communicate with each other and their capacity to destroy each other internally captured by Godard in “Contempt.”
The moment when Joan Crawford taught me how to flirt, in the perfect movie, “The Grand Hotel.” Been taking John Barrymore’s dictation ever since.
“Dinner At Eight” is another perfect film, and here Jean Harlow and Marie Dressler pontificate the future.
Godard predicted Russia’s assault on truth, and men like Robert Mercer in “Alphaville.”
The French New Wave is my happy place.
“Chernobyl” for me is the best modern filmmaking.
When Bogart took his career into his own hands and started producing films with a reporter pal, he created “In A Lonely Place,” a perfect writer’s noir.
Jean-Pierre Melville’s film about the French Resistance “Army of Shadows” is not only a perfect film, it explores the psychological mindf**k of war. Something anyone who is fighting in the current Resistance endures daily. Stay close to those you trust—FTR
Ingmar swoon. Start with The Seventh Seal and work up to the Passion of Anna.

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