Sleeper Awakened

WITHOUT FILM, SOMETHING SLEEPS INSIDE US AND SELDOM AWAKENS. THE SLEEPER MUST AWAKEN.

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THE FRENCH DISPATCH (2021)

November 10, 2021 by Jacob Nelson in 2021, 6, COMEDY, DRAMA, F

“If you want an Anderson film, you get it, but in a gluttonous gorging.'“

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November 10, 2021 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Wes Anderson, Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Lea Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Lyna Khoudri, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Steve Park, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Bob Balaban, Henry Winkler, Lois Smith, Tony Revolori, Christoph Waltz, Rupert Friend, Liev Schreiber, Willem Dafoe, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Elisabeth Moss, Jason Schwartzman, Fisher Stevens, Anjelica Huston, Tom Hudson
2021, 6, COMEDY, DRAMA, F
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LITTLE WOMEN (2019)

January 03, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2019, 7, DRAMA, L, ROMANCE, Oscars 2020

“I laughed, I kind of cried (welling up counts), and I relished near each moment.”

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January 03, 2020 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Greta Gerwig, Timothée Chalemet, Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Emma Watson, Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, Eliza Scanlen, Chris Cooper, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, James Norton, Louis Garrel
2019, 7, DRAMA, L, ROMANCE, Oscars 2020
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MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS (2018)

February 25, 2019 by Jacob Nelson in 2018, 6, BIOGRAPHY, DRAMA, M, Oscars 2019

“Never dulls though as my interest continuously stays alight, much like the passion that Ronan and Mary herself forever stoked”

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February 25, 2019 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Josie Rourke, Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Guy Pearce, Adrian Lester, David Tennant, Jack Lowden
2018, 6, BIOGRAPHY, DRAMA, M, Oscars 2019
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LOVING VINCENT (2017)

January 31, 2018 by Jacob Nelson in 2017, 6, ANIMATED, BIOGRAPHY, FOREIGN, L, Oscars 2018
"A teacher, a love letter, and a stunning visual feast."
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Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, Douglas Booth, Chris O'Dowd, Aidan Turner, Saoirse Ronan, Helen McCrory, Jerome Flynn, Bill Thomas, Elaanor Tomlinson
2017, 6, ANIMATED, BIOGRAPHY, FOREIGN, L, Oscars 2018
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LADY BIRD (2017)

November 28, 2017 by Jacob Nelson in 2017, 8, COMEDY, DRAMA, L, Oscars 2018
"Perhaps the freshest and cleverest evolutionary bright spot of the mumblecore aesthetic, both idiosyncratically smart and potently fine."
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November 28, 2017 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Greta Gerwig, Saoirse Ronan, Odeya Rush, Laurie Metcalf, Lucas Hedges, Beanie Feldstein, Tracy Letts, Lois Smith, Timothee Chalamet
2017, 8, COMEDY, DRAMA, L, Oscars 2018
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BROOKLYN (2015)

January 12, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2015, 7, B, DRAMA, ROMANCE
"A "date movie" that you wouldn't make you vomit"
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John Crowley, Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen
2015, 7, B, DRAMA, ROMANCE
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