Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Running Tally - Part 9

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I know you fervent readers have been wondering where the tally for September was. Or you know the exact opposite of that. Well another month...

Wojaczek

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I never quite realized how amazingly hard it is to write objectively about a film when the director is in attendance and afterwards takes qu...
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Transsiberian

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Brad Anderson directed a surprisingly good horror film a couple of years back called Session 9 , a film I thank Wretched Genius for recomme...

The Edge of Heaven

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Faith Akin's film on Turkish Muslims living in Germany and in Turkey is engaging and interesting from its opening to its close. It follo...

Clando

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Clando starts in Cameroon. Serious economic problems in the country have led many to find work by being non authorized taxi drivers called ...
Saturday, September 20, 2008

Angelus

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Taking a cue from my recent trip to Poland and the fact that my cousin is now happily married to a nice young Polish woman, I decided recent...
Friday, September 19, 2008

Ranting

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As I continue to view and explore those canonical films of the past I've come to the following conclusions: 1) I wish I had been born fo...
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Saturday, September 13, 2008

Haxan

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Sweet maria. What the hell did I just watch? Attempting to equate witchcraft of the past with modern day psychological disorders but via a c...

Broken Blossoms

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Apparently Broken Blossoms was a response to his critics about racism. Its story is one in which an Asian man falls in love with a young wh...

Intolerance

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D.W. Griffith followed up his controversial Birth of a Nation with a an epic tale inspired by Italian cinema such as Cabiria . Intolerance ...

Redacted

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Redacted certainly tries very hard. Based loosely on a real life tragedy in Iraq involving US soldiers who raped a young Iraqi woman and ki...

Babylon A.D.

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To the base of adoring fans who have waited breathlessly for my review of Babylon A.D. I deeply apologize. Yeah right, as if anyone who is ...
Monday, September 01, 2008

Chaplin Mutuals

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I want to be Charlie Chaplin. Now I say that not really knowing anything about his life. It could have been miserable for all I know. But hi...

Frozen River

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Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo) is mother of two whose husband has just run off with their savings and left her with the bills and debts and all on o...

Elegy

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Ben Kingsley plays David Kepesh an aging professor who is facing the reality of old age. He has been for much of his life a perpetual bachel...

Man on Wire

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According to Phillipe Petit, he wanted to wire walk across the gap between the Twin Towers even before they were completed. With a goal like...
Sunday, August 31, 2008

Running Tally - Part 8

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Well this month has been very productive for movie viewing if for nothing else. Granted there were a few really awful movies endured in the ...
Saturday, August 30, 2008

Cabiria

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A dear friend decided to watch films in chronological order to educate herself on early film and to watch the progression of film from its o...

Andrei Rublev

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Nine months ago I discovered the wonderful world of Andrei Tarkovsky. I found his first feature film Ivan's Childhood so starkly beauti...
Saturday, August 23, 2008

Death Race

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Well what can one really say about Death Race . Ever so loosely based on the 1975 Roger Corman produced classic Death Race 2000 , the film p...