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Editor’s note: Greg Johnson will be appearing on the Decamaron Film Festival 2025 to discuss this very film. More information about the festival, including how to acquire your tickets, can be found here.
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Donnie Brasco (1997) is a paradox. It is a nearly perfect film, but I wouldn’t call it a great one. (more…)
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I ain’t going back
To living that old life no more.
— Old Crow Medicine Show, “Wagon Wheel”
The street is watching. She is watching. — Carlito’s Way
2023 has been quite a year for the anniversaries of some of my favorite films and, in these trying times, old movies are a solace. Watch a loved film one more time and you know in advance you are going to like it. It’s a cinematic comfort-blanket. (more…)