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Review: "The Lives of Others"
Two moments at the Oscar ceremony fucked up everybody’s pools: When Alan Arkin yanked the Supporting Actor Oscar from frontrunner Eddie Murphy (a deserved upset, at least to all of us forever scarred by Norbit), and when… -
Review: "Pan's Labyrinth"
Pan’s Labyrinth is a vivid film, richly and sumptuously designed. Its visual flights of fancy are stunning, and the imagery cooked up by writer/director Guillermo del Toro is moody and fascinating. But… I’ve knocked this… -
Review: "Curse of the Golden Flower"
If there is a film in recent memory that is more pleasurable to simply look at than The Curse of the Golden Flower, it escapes me. The latest martial arts/historical epic from director Yimou Zhang (Hero, House of Flying … -
Review: "Volver"
Every once in a while, you just plain miss the boat. Whether it is a band whose success escapes you (for me, that’d be The Killers), a TV show that seems entirely unexceptional in spite of mountains of hype to the contra… -
Review: "El Topo"
El Topo is one of those films where the backstory trumps anything onscreen. Originally released in 1970, the underground Mexican surrealist western caught the fancy of the New York counterculture when it ran for months a… -
Short Review: "2 or 3 Things I Know About Her"
I'm more of an admirer of Jean-Luc Godard than a fan; for me, his films fall squarely into two categories: those I'm supposed to like (Contempt, Weekend), and those that I actually like (Band of Outsiders, Breathless). C…
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Hello, old friends.
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Packing it in...
So (and some of this is double-posted), I'm gonna ... -
Theatre Hopping: "Lake of Fire" and "My Kid Could Paint That"
Let’s get this out of the way, right up front: Ton...
