Encore Cinema Out Takes

New looks at yesterday’s films - DVD’s and cable re-runs promise eternal life to movies, compressing a century of filmmaking, so that last year’s release sits next to that old one you vaguely recall. See it again, remember those black and white flickers, the stuff that dreams are made of ...

Thursday, June 21, 2007

100 Great American Movies - Revised

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The AFI has produced another in the never ending chain of BEST 100 lists, this one no more definitive of BEST than any other. In 1998, the A...
Wednesday, June 06, 2007

The Good German (2006)

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Directed by Steven Soderbergh; written by Paul Attanasio, based on the novel by Joseph Kanon; director of photography, Mr. Soderbergh (under...
Sunday, May 27, 2007

Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

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Directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by Zach Helm. Starring: Will Ferrell (Harold Crick); Emma Thompson (Karen Eiffel); Maggie Gyllenh...
Monday, February 26, 2007

Ann Of A Thousand Movies

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For some reason, the name Ann or Anne (or Anna, or Annie) keeps coming up as one of the most popular girl’s name in movies. Here are the one...

Voice Of Her Generation: Sofia Coppola

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In just three films - The Virgin Suicides (1999), Lost In Translation (2003), and last year's Marie Antoinette , Sofia Coppola has car...
Saturday, February 03, 2007

Deconstructing Woody

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Woody Allen's latest efforts, "Match Point" and "Scoop" were disappointing but his work is always worth thinking ab...
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Thursday, February 01, 2007

"The Black Dahlia" ... they shoot horses, don't they?

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Movie making is like betting on horses. Breeding and track record don’t insure a winner. This one is by Brian DePalma out of James Ellroy . ...
Tuesday, January 30, 2007

"This Film Is Not Yet Rated"

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Kirby Dick’s very funny and passionate probe of the MPAA’s rating system struck a few nerves with me. As a moviegoer I was not surprised by ...
Sunday, December 31, 2006

The Netflix Funnies

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I’m becoming addicted to Netflix - not watching the movies, just reading the “members reviews.” Really. They’re better than Bill Maher. Just...
Saturday, December 23, 2006

BAH!

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Christmastime by definition is ripe for sentimental humbuggery. The sentimental mood evoked during this most maudlin of times is abetted by ...
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Sunday, November 05, 2006

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Netflix allows for mini-reviews of movies in 300 words or less, and here are some of mine over the past year: Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bu...
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