For your consideration: real movies!

Not watching enough movies these days. These days, it's easy gratification to get sucked into a series and stick with it through as many seasons as they produce... a harmless addiction. But how about cinema: a self-contained work that shows you something that will make you squirm, bore you into enlightenment, leave you stricken, amazed, or just a little different... or at least a little impressed? For your consideration:

Jafar Panahi's Taxi

Funeral Parade of Roses

Licorice Pizza

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Two more novels by Elizabeth Taylor

Angel

A Game of Hide and Seek 

Was it purely by accident that I happened to read her two best novels first, or was I just in a more receptive frame of mind when I read them? I loved A View of the Harbour and Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, and the books under consideration here share many of the same virtues: prose writing that takes your breath away, adept juggling of interior and exterior narrative. But how much interest can one generate in the sad life of a romance novelist who is a monster to everyone around her; or in a couple who, having fallen in love as kids, go on to lead separate lives of longing and misery? Not enough.

Trugoy, RIP