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Harry Solomons

Student watching films to procrastinate. I love anything Coen Brothers, everything with Leslie Nielsen and pretty much anything that’s either unbearably slow or under 90 minutes. I’ve watched Cats three times, and regretted it every time.

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Silent Land (Film Review): An Expansive Kind of Claustrophobia

Directed with a remarkable sense of style for a debut feature, Silent Land subtly and noiselessly radiates a venomous anxiety all its own.

Mulholland Drive (Review): Lynch’s Twisted L.A. Romance

Mulholland Drive is dense, enigmatic, and frequently bewildering, yet stands as one of David Lynch’s most emotionally resonant pictures.

Raiders of the Lost Ark (Review): Treasure, but no Relic

Cementing Steven Spielberg’s place as the greatest blockbuster director ever, Raiders of the Lost Ark well deserves its spot as the jewel of action cinema.

North by Northwest (Review): Bond Before Bond

One of Hitchcock’s crowning achievements, North By Northwest remains as fun as ever and serves as the finest example of a genre it helped to create.

Total Recall (Review): Martian Memory-Bending Masterpiece

Total Recall succeeds where hundreds of its contemporaries fail; a sci-fi epic turning grand philosophical questions into undeniable and ludicrous fun.

The Elephant Man (Review): Lynch’s Most Human Masterpiece

Tender, wonderfully acted, and profoundly moving, The Elephant Man is a unique ray of sentimentality in David Lynch’s oeuvre.

The Graduate (Review): Comedy Classic as Seductive as Ever

Now as iconic as any great of the 1960s, The Graduate remains, by far, the most joyful treatise on the divide between the American young and old.

The Outsiders (Film Review): Saving a Novel from Itself

Uniquely and stunningly overdramatic, The Outsiders is turned by Francis Ford Coppola and his cast, against all odds, into an incredibly engrossing picture.

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie: Film Review

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is wonderful when leaning into the camp, but is a little too by-the-books to be truly fabulous.

Mr Klein: Walking the Line Between Citizen and Alien (Review)

Mr Klein, Joseph Losey’s thriller of mistaken identity in Vichy France, is all-too-relevant in this glorious restoration.