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Interviews
Interview: Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky (The Patron Saints)
September 18, 2011We’ve been keeping tabs on this husband-wife filmmaking team the first time we herd about them...
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Review: Dark Horse
September 17, 2011"...its simplicity is only skin deep and its nightmarish melancholy isn’t as simple to casually term...
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Review: Happy, Happy
September 16, 2011Happy, Happy is one of the most captivating explorations of married couples that one can hope...
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Review: Silent Souls
September 16, 2011"In Russian filmmaker Aleksei Fedorchenko’s Silent Souls the camera orbits around and points our glances at...
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Reviews
Silent Souls | Review
September 16, 2011Endangered Species: Fedorchenko Demonstrates That Old Traditions Die Hard
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Reviews
The Patron Saints | Review
September 14, 2011Because I Could Not Stop For Death… A common description of Woody Allen’s Interiors (1978) is...
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Review: The Patron Saints
September 14, 2011"Subject matter combined with a fly-on-the-wall vantage point makes this one of the few films where...
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Review: Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
September 14, 2011"For reasons of both film reflection and historic preservation, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator is...
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Review: Livid
September 13, 2011"While it may not achieve the level of greatness as their first, it’s a fun, creepy...
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Review: Last Call at the Oasis
September 13, 2011"Jessica Yu's new doc pulls back the veil on a little talked about problem that is...
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Review: Skoonheid
September 13, 2011"Not to mention that every object of desire in Beauty is of the youthful and chiseled...
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Review: Extraterrestrial
September 13, 2011"The problem with Nacho Vigalondo’s sophomore feature, Extraterrestrial, is that it’s a bit of a one...
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Reviews
Beauty (Skoonheid) | Review
September 13, 2011New adaptation of Death in Venice stresses the homosexuality angle to an offensive degree
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Review: Nuit #1
September 12, 2011"With a confidently stripped bare appearance, with no artifice and for a good portion of the...
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Review: You’re Next
September 12, 2011"While the absence of misogynist undertones makes this an extremely pleasurable horror crowd pleaser, the predilection...
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Reviews
You’re Next | Review
September 12, 2011A fun if altogether trivial entry in home invasion horror.
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Reviews
Nuit #1 | Review
September 12, 2011Fear and Loathing: Emotional Entitlement Reigns in Emond's debut
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Review: Alois Nebel
September 11, 2011"sure to draw comparisons to Ari Folman’s 2008 Waltz With Bashir for its style, but in...
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Review: Bunohan (Return To Murder)
September 10, 2011"The sophomore effort of Malaysian director Dain Said, Bunohan, plays like King Lear in a murky,...
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Reviews
Bunohan (Return To Murder) | Review
September 10, 2011Muted Feelings Trapped in a Plodding Tale of Patrilineage
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Review: Lost in Paradise
September 9, 2011"If this sounds like a mess on paper, it’s not helped by the cinematic medium. Nearly...
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Review: The Hunter
September 9, 2011"The ominous and foreboding terrain of Tasmania proves to be the film’s greatest asset in an...
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Review: Take this Waltz
September 9, 2011"Despite Polley's intimacy with the material, and yet another wrenching performance from Michelle Williams, there are...
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Review: The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
September 9, 2011"...a unique and accomplished work of art that is a fantastic conversation piece on the nature...
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Review: Warrior
September 9, 2011"The three fantastic lead actors all bring gravity and some genuinely behavioral moments to the proceedings,...
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Review: Where Soldiers Come From
September 9, 2011"Courtney's film doesn't have the life threatening camera work and visual flair of Hell and Back...
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Interview: Goran Hugo Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975)
September 9, 2011"So as a filmmaker, you’re looking for topics and subjects that you think would be a...
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Film Festivals
Interview: Ruben Ostlund (Play)
September 9, 2011With the Un Certain Regard selected Involuntary, Swedish helmer Ruben Östlund examined the conflict of the...
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Review: The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975
September 9, 2011The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 celebrates black Americans, the push for social change, deep intellectual thought,...
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Reviews
The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 | Review
September 9, 2011Civil Rights Smorgasbord: Swede Docu Helmer Examines U.S History
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Take this Waltz | Review
September 9, 2011The sophomore effort from Canuck prodigy Sarah Polley takes two graceful steps in the wrong direction
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Where Soldiers Come From | Review
September 9, 2011Rag Tag Friends Turned War Hardened Soldiers
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Warrior | Review
September 9, 2011Mixed martial arts gets the ‘Rocky’ treatment. Spoiler: Someone has heart, overcomes the odds
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Reviews
The Hunter | Review
September 9, 2011Another Australian Entry about the Tantalizing Tasmanian Tiger
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Reviews
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu | Review
September 9, 2011Iron Fist: Nostalgic Take on Ceausescu Era Via Epic Montage
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Review: Roméo Onze
September 8, 2011"While this film manages to glean a moderate amount of pathos due to a quietly observed...