~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (17)
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Pacific Heights: A Movie Ahead of Its Time - Marginal REVOLUTION
Pacific Heights is a 1990 movie starring Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith, and Matthew Modine. Conventionally described...
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What is wrong with movies these days? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is one bit from a longer and very interesting essay by Vicky Osterweil: This kind...
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*Dune 2* - Marginal REVOLUTION
From the get go it is far too self-consciously portentous, with nary a bit of humor...
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The commercial impact of Sora - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: The more clear...
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My view of *Casablanca* (with spoilers, but you've seen it already?) - Marginal REVOLUTION
Paul Wall asks about my Casablanca comment: “ I rewatched Casablanca lately on a large screen,...
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Henrik Karlsson asks - Marginal REVOLUTION
What is a good book or film that charts the trajectory of a profoundly healthy and...
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My Conversation with the excellent Ami Vitale - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, visual, and transcript. Here is the episode summary: Ami Vitale is a...
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My Conversation with Rebecca F. Kuang - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, video, and transcript, here is the episode summary: Rebecca F. Kuang just...
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2024 is already an incredible year for cinema - Marginal REVOLUTION
There is: Poor Things The Delinquents [Los Delincuentes], from Argentina, tragicomedy. The Teacher’s Lounge All of...
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*Sound of Freedom* - Marginal REVOLUTION
I enjoyed watching this somewhat controversial production. In terms of quality, think of it as comparable...
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What I've been watching - Marginal REVOLUTION
Poor Things created a visual and stylistic and historical world all of its own. Not a...
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Is Tom Cruise actor GOAT? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yes says I, and here is Wikipedia for reference. Adam Ozimek (from my email) agrees: Rewatching...
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My pick for the best movie of the year, in which I share a bill with Kevin Spacey - Marginal REVOLUTION
Tyler Cowen, economist and author of Marginal Revolutions May December I found May December to be the most interesting...
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2023 CWT retrospective episode - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the link, here is the episode summary: On this special year-in-review episode, Tyler and...
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Censorship of U.S. Movies in China - Marginal REVOLUTION
We introduce a structural econometric model to estimate the extent to which the Chinese government bans...
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Best movies of 2023 - Marginal REVOLUTION
As usual, they are in the order I saw them (more or less), not ranked ordinally. ...
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*Napoleon* - Marginal REVOLUTION
You can’t treat it as a normal movie with anything contextualized or explained. Nope. Rather think...