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179. 84 Charing Cross Road - 1987 Anne Bancroft And Anthony Hopkins

Sun Aug 17, 2025, 11:59 PM

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Based on actual correspondence between a New York bibliophile (Bancroft) and the gentlemanly London bookstore owner (Hopkins) who finds what she's looking for. Sweet and sad and a love letter to reading.

Ran - 1984 - Akira Kurosawa's last big movie. Overwhelming - "King Lear" set in feudal Japan. Pride, greed, arrogance and filial duty meet up at the castle and immolate themselves, featuring one of the greatest battle scenes ever filmed. Cool trivia - Nakadai Tatsuya, who plays the Lear character, is the protagonist in "Hara-Kiri" from 1962, one of the greatest demolitions of samurai mythology ever.

The Decline of Civilization Part II - The Metal Years - Penelope Spheeris takes on the LA metal scene in the mid-to-late 1980s. A scabrous, dark and funny documentary.

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