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LAST OF THE BEST

Today's movie was a straggler in the long list of NYTimes Best 1176 films.

Finally, available on disk, John Huston's

The Dead (1987)

Based on the James Joyce masterpiece, this film explores feeling and family. Friends. Here and gone.

It is a lovely small film that we saw when it came out. Oddly, I remember it in black and white. Not. It is in wonderful color. Great cinematography. A gorgeous moving film.

It was Huston's last picture. They all knew it. His son, Tony, wrote the script and his daughter Angelica holds the starring role. A family work.

I will give it a 5 out of Netflix5 because I will want to see it again. And maybe again. Perhaps in another then years.

Labels: best films