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Film · France · 1895

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Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory

45Watch it awake.

The gates open, the workers leave, and a minute with no story is the whole film.

The review

The gates open and the workers go home. That is the picture. About a minute, the Lumière brothers, 1895, and one of the pictures on the first public film program. No plot to spoil, no star to follow. A house can watch it. I did, and I felt a little foolish waiting for a story that had already told me it was not coming.

They have finished the day. The day ending is the whole event. I don't need to hang a moral on people walking out of a factory. The work was real enough that someone pointed a camera at the leaving. When the minute stops, they are gone, and the rest of their evening is not ours to invent.

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Keep Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in the record.

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Live Historic number 45. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story

56 instead of 45

Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story is still a documentary film, and it scores 56 instead of 45. What you gain is courage: She says the frightening thing in front of a room, and she does it again the next night.

The eight

8
Industry
The gates open on workers who have finished the day and are going home.
3
Household
They go home, and no child or marriage is a life on the screen.
1
Piety
The minute never asks anyone to stop, refuse, or think twice.
1
Courage
Walking out at the end of a shift risks nothing they would miss.
4
Republic
A factory's people leave together, on a picture shown to a public.
5
Temperance
It ends when they have gone, and it does not sell another minute.
8
Truth
Workers leave a factory, and no plot is pasted over that fact.
6
Stewardship
Once the gates open, the rest of the day belongs to them.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 2018

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A Star Is Born

45Watch it awake.

Love is not a cure for a man who will not put the drink down. The film knows. It still asks you to ache for him.

The review

Ally has a gift and a job she is afraid to claim. Jackson has a gift he is spending to stay numb. The film sees both, and then it makes his death the door to her voice, which is an old lie about artists: that the ruin is the price of the true note. The true note was already there in the parking lot, before the ruin was asked to be meaningful.

Adults only. If you watch it, refuse the last alchemy. A person who kills himself is not a chord. Say that in the room so the song does not get the last word.

Journal

Keep A Star Is Born in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 45. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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Don't Say Good Luck

63 instead of 45

Don't Say Good Luck is still a drama film, and it scores 63 instead of 45. What you gain is temperance: Sentiment is thick.