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Secret Honor 1984

1h 30m Drama

Paranoid mama's boy Richard Nixon reckons with his life as a pawn.

This was actually an inadvertently neat companion piece to Swimming to Cambodia (1987); both one-man shows that are nearly in conversation with each other.

In Swimming, Spalding Gray (as himself) describes his time spent in Cambodia filming a fictional portrayal of a real-life event.

In Honor, Philip Baker Hall gives a stunning performance as Nixon in a fictional moment of his life (that I guess could've happened) that deals in part with the real-life events discussed in Swimming.

(It's also just wild that all of Robert Altman's signature moves work just as well here with one man as they do in a story with, like, 32 people talking all at once.)

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Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti 1993

52m Documentary

I would have liked to see how Maya Deren would have finished it as but she did shoot the film and I think that is perhaps the most interesting part of it. There is no doubt she had an eye for dance and movement and here the dancing of the religious ceremonies are top notch, some truly great dancing. The human movement and it's attachment to the other world, something Maya seemed very interested in. Just one CW warning, there is animal sacrifice.

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Swimming to Cambodia 1987

1h 25m Documentary

For 85 minutes, Spalding Gray fleeces a yarn about his time spent filming The Killing Fields (1984) in Cambodia and gives a brief history lesson about the area as well. And for 85 minutes, I'm enthralled.

Jonathan Demme directs this with as much love and care as he did Stop Making Sense a few years earlier, even though this is simply Spalding sitting at a desk on a stage.

Glad to own it!

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