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  1. That Man from Rio (1964).

    Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a French soldier on leave who visits his girlfriend (Françoise Dorléac), only for her to get kidnapped because she supposedly knows the location of a statuette her late anthropologist father dug up.  Belmondo follows the kidnappers, which takes him to Brazil.

    Ben Mankiewicz called this one of the Bond spoofs with a bunch of other homages, but the one close homage I saw was to Hitchcock movies like The 39 Steps where the hero goes on a long journey to solve the mystery while trying to stay out of trouble.  It's a physically gorgeous movie to watch, especially for the vintage shots of Brasilia, a planned city less than a decade old at the time.  The brutalist, isolating architecture gives this section of the movie a dystopian feel reminiscent of Alphaville.  The characters, however, I found a bit difficult to warm up to.

    8/10.

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  2. 3 hours ago, limey said:

    If the History channel failed to show programming dedicated to Pearl Harbor on/around Dec 7th, I'd be surprised

    It's not all alien stuff?

    You should see some of the stuff the "American Heroes" Channel (formerly the Military Channel, but apparently you can only be a hero is you're serving the interests of state violence) shows.  I'm pretty certain I've seen "Mafia vs. ****" show up before.  I'm not certain which ones were supposed to be the American heroes.

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  3. Stachka (1925).

    Sergei Eisenstein's first film, an archetype about a bunch of factory workers who go on strike.  There's little plot and even less characterization here, but Eisenstein shows at this early age he has a very good grasp of camera techniques, and that does make the movie worth a watch.

    7/10.

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