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While still short of the decade-old high water mark of Rushmore , Fantastic Mr. Fox is Wes Anderson’s first film since that one impossible to dismiss as “flawed” — a good thing, because when you’re as poised and elegant a filmmaker as Anderson, you can only have so ...
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The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wes Anderson
Watching The Transporter , I kept thinking about the connection between the Action movie and the Slapstick comedy. Both rely on the repeated manipulation of space and objects: the finding of secondary (and even tertiary) uses that transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. In one scene, ...
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Jason Statham
John Woo’s first film since the hilariously shitty Paycheck finds him back in Asia for the first time since 1992’s Hard Boiled ’s grim vision on handover end-times. But Red Cliff finds Woo not navigating the intricate urban milieu of his hometown of Hong Kong, but rather ...
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Red Cliff
John Woo
Tony Leung
By the time we see a breakdancing gangster (this is the second episode of breakdancing I’ve seen in a Herzog film), Bad Lieutenant ’s extraordinary bizarreness officially suppresses all the skepticism seasoned viewers of les films du cinéma will have going into this one. It ...
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Werner Herzog
If this were about any other band I’d be using this space to express disdain for all the narcissism on display. But it’s not. And, beginning with the legendary opening chord , I’m immediately hoodwinked by its many charms.
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Other
Swaggering about with a galvanizing mix of black metal and ambient electronic music, passages of no dialogue whatsoever, and a bowel movement, Tony Stone’s Viking home movie remains one of the most audacious films of the past few years.
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Other
Kent Mackenzie’s project is principally an ethnographic one, but in spite of the sense of distance between filmmaker and subject this might create, the director nonetheless demonstrates a willingness to listen and to seek their input. The actors lend their lives to the film, working ...
Other
While it’s useless to imagine Hollywood without Los Angeles, Andersen’s film enables the city to stand on its own, pulling it out of the context of Tinseltown to share a rich, eccentric urban history. The others – New York, Paris, Rome – have their defenders in ...
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Aleksandr Sokurov’s still, breathless film about Emperor Hirohito is a portrait in grey smoke and vague, delicate sounds. From inside the Emperor’s colorless laboratory of a palace, the distant cries of poverty and displacement and the low rumble of mechanized destruction cannot be ...
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To paraphrase Voltaire, if Los Angeles didn’t exist, it would be necessary to invent it. Well, it exists, of course (I’m typing this from there right now), but the invention has proven necessary anyway: since the early days of Hollywood the cinema has been representing, ...
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Wes Anderson
One of the forgotten aspects of the seventies is the prevalence of Christian eschatology in American pop culture. Events such as the oil crisis, Watergate and Three Mile Island caused people to lose their faith in economics, politics and science, respectively, and a large number of Americans ...
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Earth
Director Gerald Peary emphasizes the essential role that disagreements have played in the history of film criticism: from the quarrels of Andrew Sarris and Pauline Kael to the frequent arguments of Siskel and Ebert during their influential years as the co-hosts of At the Movies , critics ...
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Faizon Love
Fifty years ago this month, Jean-Luc Godard was putting the finishing touches on his first feature film: “the story of a young American woman and a Frenchman. Things can’t work out between them because he thinks about death and she doesn’t.” Deriving from a script ...
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Adrien Brody
This weekend, the Brattle ’s screening some of the more notable episodes of The Twilight Zone on occasion of the program’s 50th anniversary. Refer to this page for remarks on other episodes as the weekend progresses.
Relatedly, entire episodes are available for free at ...
Horror
The Twilight Zone
Movies have a hard time with drugs. Anyone who has seen “Wet Hot American Summer” knows that the descent-into-sweating-madness story arc of your typical “drug movie” is played out to the point of self-parody. Most writers end up closer to “Reefer Madness” ...
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31 Days of Horror – After another month of delving into horror flicks old and new, gruesome and historic, terrifying and thought-provoking, we have come at last to the day of days in every horror lovers heart—Halloween. Having spent many of the preceding All Hallows’ ...
Horror
Halloween
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