Super Fly (Curtis Mayfield, 1972)
Great for a soundtrack album, but maybe it needs that disclaimer? For something so dedicated to one theme it never feels preachy until No Thing on Me, but that one feels deserved. I really like how each track seems structured around a specific idea, usually expressed in the hook. Beautiful orchestration and it flies by.
Choice cuts: Pusherman, Think, Superfly
Crack Up (Irving Reis, 1946)
Starts with an awesome mystery which presumably will be the focus of the bulk of the movie but which instead is quickly and lamely solved in favor of a boring art forgery plot. Quite unengaging despite an exciting start but there is this one awesome foggy shot and kind of a cool hodgepodge of ideas thrown around.

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