J.C. Chandor’s feature debut is a confident and unexplored look at one of humanity’s darkest hours. It posits that the financial meltdown we remain mired in was less the result of evil machinations, though there is a smattering of that, but more human frailties like hubris, naivete, and poor management. I’m not sure whether this [...]
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Tom Hooper’s well-mannered period piece (minus some staccato naughty words) is a welcome affront to the 3-D glut spilling out of theaters these days. Also I must emphatically state that I’m not using “well-mannered” as some code for “utterly boring.” This film has brought me more entertainment than anything I’ve seen in the past three [...]
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I’m woefully late on this list, and I still have yet to see The King’s Speech, Another Year, Winter’s Bone, Never Let Me Go, Blue Valentine, and the Fighter but this end of the year corral is more for my mental closure than any fastidious bean counting. My top three this year fall into the [...]
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“Relationships are the true time machine in that they exist in the past, present and future at the same time.”
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Why is there a space between Pain that slides and vibrates Your Insides It is always late but never easy If I could control my fate, I could let my words free and reclaim “I” from “What might be” Pretty Funny, Huh?
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The sword and sandals genre has had a woeful resurgence of late. Not since the Hercules/Maciste/Samson films of the 50’s and 60’s have bare-chested bravura, tunics, and dusty sandals been such a hit at the box office. Recent unfortunate examples include Troy, 300, Clash of the Titans, and Prince of Persia. They all trade on our [...]
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This year the AAIFF runs from July 15th to July 24th. With a smaller selection of films from last year, the choices are consistently good and occasionally remarkable. Opening Night has been handed over to award-winning Filmmaker Raymond Red, who is no stranger to international audiences. He was the first and remains the only Filipino [...]
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MicMacs Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s whimsy (excluding the dismal Alien Resurrection) is near-mythic at this point with a small coterie of films under his belt. MicMacs continues Jeunet’s streak of small, carefully curated jewels. His previous films, The City of Lost Children and Amélie in particular release their brilliance in small doses scattered about the screen in [...]
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The Arbor One of the most unique documentary presentations I’ve seen in recent memory, Clio Barnard tells the story of Andrea Dunbar, a famous British playwright who died tragically at the age of 29. In complete disavowal of the usual stock and archival footage and expert analysis, Barnard has professional actors lip sync interviews with [...]
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Snap Honestly I can’t tell you what this movie is about at all and that perhaps is a failing in me, but halfway through the screening I began to wonder if the director, Carmel Winters, was simply testing the limits of comprehension in some wry clinical manner. We follow a foul-mouthed mother as she is [...]
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