Friday, May 22, 2009

1939 - 70th Anniversary

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Seventy years ago - even before I was born - Hollywood capped its Golden Age with a year of releases that still sparkle, like pearls in a pr...
Sunday, January 11, 2009

"Slumdog Millionaire" (2008)

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Pauline Kael, the longtime New Yorker film critic, was known for decrying the pompous critical barrier between "art" and "tr...
Sunday, January 04, 2009

Hard times can be fun ... what filmmakers can learn from Depression era comedies

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In a Sunday NY Times column, movie critic A. O. Scott questioned whether Hollywood will react to the current economic hard times as well as ...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Revolutionary Road (2008)

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This movie about a couple in the throes of marital crisis in the 1950's is strangely familiar to me. The Wheelers have turned 30, an age...
Saturday, December 27, 2008

"The Lovers" ("Les Amants") (1958) - you know it when you see it.

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When I was in law school, the most controversial battleground of the 1st Amendment was not school prayer or press freedom or even religious ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

The Cinema of politics and politics of cinema

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"Gabriel Over The White House" (1933) might have been the primer on which Oliver Stone learned his ABZ's. At its heart, it is ...
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Friday, February 29, 2008

Michael Clayton (2007)

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I usually can’t stomach lawyer movies. Almost everyone I’ve seen is either offensively unrealistic or unrealistically offensive. I especiall...
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Monday, February 25, 2008

2007

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These are my Netflix reviews for films already available on DVD and their Oscar results: La Vie En Rose - best actress I first admired Mari...
Sunday, February 24, 2008

"Lust, Caution" (2007)

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Directed by Ang Lee, starring Tony Leung (Mr. Yee), Tang Wei (Mak Tai Tai / Wong Chia Chi) Joan Chen (Yee Tai Tai), Wang Leehom (Kuang Yu Mi...
Friday, February 15, 2008

Knocked Up By The Proper Stranger

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Last year’s megahit, "Knocked Up," shocked & awed critics & audiences with a combination of raunch dressing on top of an i...
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Saturday, November 24, 2007

"No Country For Old Men"

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Joel & Ethan Coen’s new entry in their library of films re-defining Americana is as bleak as the southwest Texas land it is set in. The ...
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...