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[proximoception]

I wonder if the late '90s will ever be recognized as the greatest period for films--in the English-speaking world.

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Yeah, it's both silly and impossible to summarize such things. And like you I'm only really sure that the movies of the last few years have been unprecedentedly wretched. Some combination of CGI, the demographic shift to Y/Tweens, and Sept 11?

Never did see Riff Raff. Land and Freedom had some great moments. I think I saw some of Bigger Than Life on TV a few years ago? I remember the widescreen being good for couches, lots of lamps being turned on and off, Grade A Masonic hamming. I miss the widescreen of '50s/early '60s movies on the Turner stations, that tiny band of toylike people leaning among aquarium hues and porcelain textures.