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Millennium Mambo, Part 3
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Millennium Mambo, Part 3
— reassurance.blogspot.com — More on the Best of the Decade list round-up from Mike D'Angelo and the Skandies , which... was actually posted earlier this month (and which I thought I had already mentioned, but... I guess not) and from Glenn Kenny . D'Angelo and the Skandies listed 20 films and 20 performances, with Lars von ... (more) Millennium Mambo, Part 3

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Millennium Mambo, Part 2-ish
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Millennium Mambo, Part 2-ish
— reassurance.blogspot.com — Two more big lists have been published asserting the finest films of the decade. The haughtier of... the two came from The Toronto International Film Festival Cinematheque , which surveyed a group of "film curators, historians, and festival programmers" and named, in a surprise move, Apichatpong ... (more) Millennium Mambo, Part 2-ish

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Ran and Contempt on Blu-ray in February
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Ran and Contempt on Blu-ray in February
— reassurance.blogspot.com — After both Criterion Blu-ray editions of Akira Kurosawa's Ran and Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt [ Le mépris ]... were canceled, many (myself) included suspected that it was the evil doings of The Weinstein Company, who own, presumably, the Wellspring catalogue... but in fact, it looks as it if was ... (more) Ran and Contempt on Blu-ray in February

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The Nunsploitation Classic Comes to DVD in the US, Plus a Bunch of Lame Blu-rays
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The Nunsploitation Classic Comes to DVD in the US, Plus a Bunch of Lame Blu-rays
— reassurance.blogspot.com — Walerian Borowczyk's Behind Convent Walls [ Interno di un convento ], often regarded as the quintessential nunsploitation... film, will finally make its way to the US via Cult Epics on 30 March. Cult Epics will also release it in a set entitled The Nunsploitation Convent Collection with Norifumi ... (more) The Nunsploitation Classic Comes to DVD in the US, Plus ...

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The Decade List: Julia (2008)
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The Decade List: Julia (2008)
— reassurance.blogspot.com — Julia – dir. Erick Zonca [Edited from a previous “ defense ” of Julia , which was... written before a number of US critics got on board with the film] Over the past ten years, a number of films have showcased the many talents of Tilda Swinton, whose uncanny screen presence can’t really be ... (more) The Decade List: Julia (2008)

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The Weinstein Company Is Scared of the Gays
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The Weinstein Company Is Scared of the Gays
— reassurance.blogspot.com — Much has already been discussed about how The Weinstein Company appears to be hiding the fact that... Tom Ford's A Single Man , which the studio picked up for seven-figures at Toronto, is about a single gay man. From its poster , which features Colin Firth laying next to Julianne Moore, to its ... (more) The Weinstein Company Is Scared of the Gays

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The First Werner Schroeter DVD Release in the US? DVD Update 17 November
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The First Werner Schroeter DVD Release in the US? DVD Update 17 November
— reassurance.blogspot.com — By my research, Facets' upcoming release of Werner Schroeter's Palermo or Wolfsburg [ Palermo oder Wolfsburg ]... through Filmgalerie 451 will be the first Schroeter film to see a DVD release in the US. Schroeter's three-hour epic won the Golden Bear at the 1980 Berlin International Film ... (more) The First Werner Schroeter DVD Release in the US? DVD ...

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The Decade List: Grindhouse (2007)
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The Decade List: Grindhouse (2007)
— reassurance.blogspot.com — Grindhouse – dir. Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Rob Zombie, Edgar Wright, Eli Roth Probably the most rousingly... effective ode to bad taste that graced the cinemas over the past ten years, Grindhouse provided its audience what so few of the exploitation films it honors only hinted ... (more) The Decade List: Grindhouse (2007)

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February Criterions and More
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February Criterions and More
— reassurance.blogspot.com — The St. Louis International Film Festival has kept me busy, so I'm just now getting around to... posting the February Criterion additions, which were announced on Friday. Through IFC, Steve McQueen's Hunger will make its way to DVD and Blu-ray; Max Ophüls' Lola Montès will be upgraded from the ... (more) February Criterions and More

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The Decade List: 3-Iron (2004)
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The Decade List: 3-Iron (2004)
— reassurance.blogspot.com — 3-Iron – dir. Kim Ki-duk When rewatching Kim Ki-duk’s 3-Iron , I had the fear that the... very stylized contrivances that made me initially like it would have worn thin. As admirable as it may have seemed to situate your films around characters that barely utter a word to one another (if at ... (more) The Decade List: 3-Iron (2004)

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The Decade List: Children of Men (2006)
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The Decade List: Children of Men (2006)
— reassurance.blogspot.com — Children of Men – dir. Alfonso Cuarón Sometimes a bit of technical prowess is all a film... needs to assert itself as a classic. It worked for Battleship Potemkin , and it may as well do the same for Alfonso Cuarón’s marvel of an apocalyptic thriller Children of Men . If you happened to have ... (more) The Decade List: Children of Men (2006)

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My My, Penélope!
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My My, Penélope!
— reassurance.blogspot.com — I already planned on seeing Rob Marshall's Nine , even though I think he's a royally shitty... film director, but this single image of Penélope has me sold . Plus I'm pretty sure my love for Cruz, Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Sophia Loren and sometimes Nicole Kidman wins out over my ... (more) My My, Penélope!

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The Decade List: Awards (2008)
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The Decade List: Awards (2008)
— reassurance.blogspot.com — I've likely spoken at some length on the majority of these awards, seeing as how most of... them were given out this year... which means this will be the last installment of the Awards section of The Decade List, as I hope to will finish this all up by the end of the year. The "national film ... (more) The Decade List: Awards (2008)

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The Decade List: Entre les murs (2008)
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The Decade List: Entre les murs (2008)
— reassurance.blogspot.com — Entre les murs [ The Class ] – dir. Laurent Cantet It’d be too easy (and too... satisfying) to claim that Hollywood has fallen out of love with the inspirational teacher subgenre that brought us such ham-fests as Dangerous Minds , Dead Poets Society , Mr. Holland’s Opus and (sorry Sister Mary ... (more) The Decade List: Entre les murs (2008)

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Poster for Sébastien Lifshitz's latest Plein sud
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Poster for Sébastien Lifshitz's latest Plein sud
— reassurance.blogspot.com — French distribution company Ad Vitam just released the official poster for the latest from Sébastien Lifshitz, entitled... Plein sud , or in English literally Due South . The film opens nationally on 30 December, after being pushed from August, and will likely make an appearance at the Berlinale ... (more) Poster for Sébastien Lifshitz's latest Plein sud

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