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data/titles/high-sierra-1940-0033717.json → data/titles/high-sierra-1941-0033717.json

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+  "slug": "high-sierra-1941",
   "title": "High Sierra",
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-  "sortTitle": "high-sierra-1940",
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+  "sortTitle": "high-sierra-1941",
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data/titles/juno-and-the-paycock-1929-0021015.json → data/titles/juno-and-the-paycock-1930-0021015.json

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   "title": "Juno and the Paycock",
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-  "year": "1929",
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data/titles/lady-with-a-sword-1971-0879239.json

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data/titles/nosferatu-2024-5040012.json

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+  "runtimeMinutes": 132,
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     "United Kingdom",

data/titles/the-one-armed-swordsman-1967-0061597.json → data/titles/one-armed-swordsman-1967-0061597.json

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   "imdbId": "tt0061597",
-  "slug": "the-one-armed-swordsman-1967",
-  "title": "The One-Armed Swordsman",
+  "slug": "one-armed-swordsman-1967",
+  "title": "One-Armed Swordsman",
   "originalTitle": "Du bei dao",
   "sortTitle": "one-armed-swordsman-1967",
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data/titles/shaolin-hand-lock-1978-0078253.json

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   "slug": "shaolin-hand-lock-1978",
   "title": "Shaolin Hand Lock",
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data/titles/silent-night-deadly-night-1984-0088117.json

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   "slug": "silent-night-deadly-night-1984",
   "title": "Silent Night, Deadly Night",
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+  "originalTitle": "Silent Night Deadly Night",
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data/titles/the-criminal-code-1930-0021770.json → data/titles/the-criminal-code-1931-0021770.json

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   "originalTitle": "The Criminal Code",
-  "sortTitle": "criminal-code-1930",
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+  "sortTitle": "criminal-code-1931",
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data/titles/the-deadly-breaking-sword-1979-0079148.json

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data/titles/the-ghoul-1933-0024055.json

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data/titles/trail-of-the-broken-blade-1967-0060350.json → data/titles/the-trail-of-the-broken-blade-1967-0060350.json

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   "imdbId": "tt0060350",
-  "slug": "trail-of-the-broken-blade-1967",
-  "title": "Trail of the Broken Blade",
+  "slug": "the-trail-of-the-broken-blade-1967",
+  "title": "The Trail of the Broken Blade",
   "originalTitle": "Duan chang jian",
   "sortTitle": "trail-of-the-broken-blade-1967",
   "year": "1967",

reviews/crimes-of-the-future-2022.md

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 ---
-date: 2023-03-02
+date: 2025-01-09
 imdb_id: tt14549466
 grade: B-
 slug: crimes-of-the-future-2022
+synopsis: In a near-future where surgery has become the new sex, Viggo Mortensen's body grows novel organs, harvested by partner Léa Seydoux in performance art spectacles.
 ---
 
-Sharing the same title as <span data-imdb-id="tt0065591">his 1970 feature</span>, _Crimes of the Future_ serves as a poignant conclusion to David Cronenberg's career-long interrogation of our relationship with our bodies.
+In a near future where humans have ceased feeling physical pain and grown immune to bacterial infections, surgery has become the new sex. For some, like performance artist Saul Tenser, played by Viggo Mortensen, the evolutionary journey continues.
 
-<!-- end -->
+Saul's body grows novel organs. Before rapt crowds in dungeon-like basement auditoriums, Saul's partner Caprice, played by Léa Seydoux, extracts the new organs in live surgery spectacles.
 
-A few generations in the future, humans have ceased feeling physical pain, and grown immune to bacterial infections.
+But these mutations have alarmed the government, who've formed a shadow agency to blunt these growing evolutionary trends and counter an underground movement pushing to embrace them.
 
-For some, like performance artist Saul Tenser, played by Viggo Mortensen, the evolutionary journey continues. Saul's body generates new novel organs. Before rapt crowds in dungeon-like basement auditoriums, Saul's partner Caprice, played by Léa Seydoux, extracts the new organs in live surgery spectacles.
+Sharing the same title as <span data-imdb-id="tt0065591">his 1970 feature</span>, _Crimes of the Future_ sees writer-director David Cronenberg return to his career-long interrogation of our relationship with our bodies.
 
-But these mutations have alarmed the government, who've formed a shadow agency to blunt these growing evolutionary trends. This includes establishing a national organ registry to catalog mutant organs.
+The film opens with a shot of a young boy playing on the beach. Just off the coast, a rusting cruise ship lies capsized, half underwater. From here, the film presents a memorable inciting incident I won't spoil. Suffice it to say it propels the story along with Cronenberg's familiar themes of revulsion, paranoia, and governmental mistrust, all backed by a Howard Shore score.
 
-The film opens with a memorable inciting incident I won't spoil. It propels the story along with Cronenberg's familiar themes of revulsion, paranoia and governmental mistrust.
+And yet, despite this familiarity, _Crimes of the Future_ stands apart.
 
-And yet, despite this familiarity--and a visual esthetic lifted from his earlier film, <span data-imdb-id="tt0120907">_eXistenZ_</span>--_Crimes of the Future_ stands apart.
+Perhaps it's because Cronenberg, returning to features after a seven-year gap, found most of his crew--including cinematographer Peter Suschitzky--unavailable. Production designer Carol Spier was available, however, accounting for the visual aesthetic continuity from earlier works like <span data-imdb-id="tt0120907">_eXistenZ_</span>, as was composer Shore.
 
-Cronenberg's earlier works surfaced the horror inherit in a younger man's distrust of his own body. Said distrust resonated, as one could substitute authority, culture, religion, or any inherit institution. Punk rock horror.
+Or perhaps it's because the financing, originating from Greece, necessitated shooting in Greece, in the summer, in sweltering heat, often inside old warehouses and buildings with no air conditioning.
 
-But this film reflects an older, more resigned Cronenberg. It lacks the angst and urgency of its predecessors. In their place, Cronenberg proffers a quiet meditation on aging and acceptance wrapped in some unsettling visual moments. One scene features a surgical tool cutting into a foot. I felt the sound of metal scraping bone along my spine. A resonant bookend to Cronenberg's fifty-year cinematic journey.
+But I suspect the true culprit is time. Cronenberg's earlier works surfaced the horror inherent in a younger man's distrust of his own body. Said distrust resonated, as one could substitute authority, culture, religion, or any inherent institution. Punk rock horror.
+
+Cronenberg considers the film a love story.[^1] In this light, the film's central arc is Saul's eventual acceptance of his mutation. Mortensen, through sheer gravitas, keeps his constant chokes, gargles, and Batman voice from veering into comedy, as he plays a man whose digestive tract is actively mutating. Seydoux has less to do, but her chemistry with Mortensen convinces in its wavering nature--she's attracted to his mutations and loves the act of extracting them even as she rationalizes the need to do so.
+
+This reflects an older, more resigned Cronenberg. In place of the angst and urgency of his earlier body horrors, Cronenberg instead proffers a quiet meditation on aging and acceptance interspersed with moments of deadpan screwball comedy. The sign of a man whose experience has taught him not to take himself too seriously.
+
+But lest you think he's lost his edge, Cronenberg includes some unsettling visual moments. One scene features a surgical hand saw cutting into a foot. I felt the sound of metal scraping bone along my spine. Cronenberg's still got it, but one gets the sense age has softened him a bit. As though he's laughing at a joke you only get with age.
+
+[^1]: David Cronenberg, "Undeniably a Love Story: An Interview with Director David Cronenberg," interview on _Crimes of the Future_, directed by David Cronenberg (2022; London: Second Sight, 2023), 4k Blu-ray.

reviews/high-sierra-1940.md → reviews/high-sierra-1941.md

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 date: 2022-09-13
 imdb_id: tt0033717
 grade: B-
-slug: high-sierra-1940
+slug: high-sierra-1941
 ---
 
 Humphrey Bogart plays Roy Earle, a career thief sprung from prison by an aging gangster for a jewel robbery at a resort hotel in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The job goes south and Earle ends up on the run with a jaded dance hall girl, played by Ida Lupino. **Spoilers follow.**

reviews/juno-and-the-paycock-1929.md → reviews/juno-and-the-paycock-1930.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 date: 2020-11-02
 imdb_id: tt0021015
 grade: F
-slug: juno-and-the-paycock-1929
+slug: juno-and-the-paycock-1930
 ---
 
 An unengaging adaptation of Seán O'Casey's play about a poor Dublin family undone by an unexpected windfall during the Irish Civil War. Hitchcock limits his formal rigor to constructing long takes which--combined with the monologue-heavy script--give the sense of watching a filmed stage performance. The film even drops O'Casey's final gut-punch scene. Often ignored in Hitchcock's oeuvre for good reason.

reviews/the-criminal-code-1930.md → reviews/the-criminal-code-1931.md

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 ---
 date: 2020-11-18
 imdb_id: tt0021770
-title: The Criminal Code (1930)
 grade: C+
-slug: the-criminal-code-1930
+slug: the-criminal-code-1931
 ---
 
-**Howard Hawks's second sound picture.** A competent prison-reform drama that nevertheless feels like a work-for-hire job. Walter Huston's electric as a former district attorney turned prison warden, and Boris Karloff maximizes his role as a grudge-bearing convict. But Phillips Holmes doesn't register as the hard-luck protagonist. Ditto Constance Cummings as his love interest.
+**Howard Hawks's second sound picture.** A competent prison-reform drama that nevertheless feels like a work-for-hire job. Walter Huston's electric as a former district attorney turned prison warden, and Boris Karloff maximizes his role as a grudge-bearing convict. But Phillips Holmes doesn't register as the hard-luck protagonist. Ditto Constance Cummings as his love interest.

viewings/2003-12-07-01-high-sierra-1940.md → viewings/2003-12-07-01-high-sierra-1941.md

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viewings/2007-07-09-02-high-sierra-1940.md → viewings/2007-07-09-02-high-sierra-1941.md

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viewings/2020-11-02-01-juno-and-the-paycock-1929.md → viewings/2020-11-02-01-juno-and-the-paycock-1930.md

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viewings/2020-11-18-01-the-criminal-code-1931.md

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+slug: the-criminal-code-1931
+venue: null
+venueNotes: null
+medium: DVD
+mediumNotes: "_Karloff: Criminal Kind_, TCM Vault Collection, 2013"
+---

viewings/2022-09-13-01-high-sierra-1940.md → viewings/2022-09-13-01-high-sierra-1941.md

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viewings/2025-01-09-01-crimes-of-the-future-2022.md

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+sequence: 1
+imdbId: tt14549466
+date: 2025-01-09
+slug: crimes-of-the-future-2022
+medium: 4k UHD Blu-ray
+venue: null
+venueNotes: null
+mediumNotes: Second Sight, 2023
+---
+