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CLASS DYSFUNCTION

Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala's

Room With A View (1985)This is still a wonderful movie to watch. The acting is great. The story by Forster is well adapted. The production values are of the highest order.

The Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala machine does not always work for me. It is a bit too much NPR and Masterpiece Theater-ish.

But this one is an exception.

This is the one where Daniel Day-Lewis plays the prig Cecil.

It is a 4 out of Netflix5 and maybe even a 5. I will think about it some more. There is always the new curve to consider.

I don't think that I have given a 5 since I started it.

Labels: best films