The Landlord

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Alec B @Alec97 Feb 28, 2024 Still provocative but it's the film's deep humanity and the empathy for the characters that really endures. See more Shioka O @RT54204327 Oct 23, 2022 I first watched this in 2022, it was unexpectedly good. This is categorised as a comedy, but definitely more than that. Glueing script, and cinematography is too good. (I found this was by Gordon Willis) Recommend for someone looking for 70s feel. See more dave s @RT68722908 Jan 7, 2021 Despite being a bit stylistically dated, Hal Ashby's first directorial effort about race relations in America is as timely today as it was fifty years ago. Elger Enders is a 29-year-old aristocrat who decides to move out of his parents' palatial mansion, buy a rundown tenement building in New York, evict the tenants, and convert it into one massive and swinging bachelor pad. The social commentary offered up in The Landlord foreshadowed what was to come from Ashby over the remainder of the 70s decade – an unequaled string of great satires that tore at the fabric of American society. See more Oct 29, 2020 It almost had me...but that evil "Dr" character ruined it for me in the last few minutes. See more Aug 13, 2020 Firmly rooted in the fashions, sounds, language, and styles of the moment in which it was produced, The Landlord breaks free from these nostalgic anchors by authentically handling the timeless themes of race, sexuality, and class with a humor and intelligence rarely seen in motion pictures. Individual scenes dripping with the same Woodstock-era aesthetic that relegate lesser films to period curios are infused with uncommon charm and depth by cinematographer Gordon Willis, screenwriter Bill Gunn, and director Hal Ashby. An essential piece of early 70s filmmaking. See more steve d @RT35616104 Jul 17, 2020 Its story does little with it's admittedly worthy goals. See more Read all reviews

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