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Movies from comedy to drama to your favorite Hollyweird Star.

Most Speilberg films,

American Beauty, Finding Forrester, Goodwill Hunting, etc. etc.

vs.

Anything by

Bergman
Renoir
Atonioni
Hitchcock
or
pre-1990 Woody Allen

It's the director's fine honing of his art - a sort of minimalism, if you will, vs. the "sledgehammer" approach of modern day Hollywood.
There are a few exceptions, of course, but by and large, Hollywood is only good at escapism fare. And the problem isn't the existence of escapism fare, it's the absence of substantial alternatives.

Sorry if my previous post was a little too "spunky". My diet is limiting my wine intake - and it's making me damn irritable!


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