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Big Fan (2009)
Director/Screenwriter : Robert D. Siegel
By Marilyn Ferdinand
Are diehard sports fans sick? This seems to be the central question around which The Wrestler screenwriter Robert Siegel has built the literate, intelligent script for his directorial debut, Big Fan . He ...
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The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups, 1959)
Director : Francois Truffaut
By Roderick Heath
The 400 Blows , Francois Truffaut’s debut film, is a work around which implicit ironies swirl. It looks as much backwards as it does forwards, to Truffaut’s youthful experiences, and the ...
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Fantastic Planet (La planète sauvage, 1973)
Director/Coscreenwriter : Réne Laloux
De Profundis (2007)
Director/Screenwriter : Miguelanxo Prado
By Marilyn Ferdinand
The realists and the impressionists are at it again. No, we’re not in 19th century France or Nazi Germany. Our ...
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Batman (1989)
Director : Tim Burton
By Roderick Heath
Yeah, I can’t believe it’s been 20 years, either. And it’s been at least 15 since I last saw Tim Burton’s grandiose redesign of the classic comic strip and the campy TV show derived from it. I remember the hype around its release ...
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2009 Polish Film Festival in America
Operation Danube (Operace Dunaj, 2009)
Director : Janek Glomb
By Marilyn Ferdinand
There’s a subgenre of war film that likes to emphasize the absurdity of war by showing how people who have no quarrel with each other and exist in the ...
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Pretty in Pink (1986)
Director : Howard Deutch
By Roderick Heath
The death of Michael Jackson and John Hughes within a few weeks of each other had me thinking a lot about the 1980s. I never had much time for ’80s youth pics when I was an ’80s youth, and I watched most of Hughes’s ...
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2009 Polish Film Festival in America
Earthly Paradise (Droga do Ragu, 2008)
Director/Co-Screenwriter : Gerwazy Reguła
By Marilyn Ferdinand
Once upon a time, there was a lady who was SO good that everywhere she went, the sun followed her and shined its light so strongly that ...
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The Hurt Locker (2008)
Director : Kathryn Bigelow
By Roderick Heath
Here There Be Spoilers.
“War is a drug,” The Hurt Locker ’s foreword assays, and the film follows this thesis to the bitter end. An Iraq War film in all its sundry details and yet, in its way, apolitical and even ...
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The Hurt Locker
2009 Polish Film Festival in America
The Forest (Las, 2009)
Director/Screenwriter : Piotr Dumała
By Marilyn Ferdinand
It is not Kieślowski, Wajda, or Pasikowski who are the most sought-after, loved, and welcome of Polish filmmakers at almost all of the world’s festivals. It is ...
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CQ (2001)
Director/Screenwriter : Roman Coppola
By Roderick Heath
Damn Francis Ford Coppola and his talented family! Even if, Nicholas Cage excluded (sometimes), they’re entirely preferable behind the camera to in front of it, they’ve still managed to brew many a sour grape into ...
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Skhizein (2008)
Director/Screenwriter/Animator : Jérémy Clapin
By Marilyn Ferdinand
To be “beside oneself” is a turn of phrase we’ve all heard or used at one time or another. It usually refers to someone experiencing something very emotionally charged. Of course, the part of that ...
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Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Director : Stanley Kubrick
By Roderick Heath
Legendary and lauded as most of them have become, few of Stanley Kubrick’s later films landed immediate punches with viewers. 2001: A Space Odyssey took time to find an audience, A Clockwork Orange was so ...
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Amityville 2: The Possession (1982)
Director : Damiano Damiani
By Roderick Heath
Long my private vote for the best worst film of all time, Amityville 2: The Possession is the sort of film that ought to be utterly humdrum, but proves to be a welter of cinematic putrescence. A sequel to ...
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Possession
The Class of ’84 Blogathon
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Director/Screenwriter : Michael Radford
By Marilyn Ferdinand
This entry is part of the Class of ’84 Blogathon being hosted by Joe Valdez at This Distracted Globe .
Big Brother is watching you.
Whether you’ve ever read ...
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Italian Horror Blog-a-Thon
Deep Red (Profondo Rosso, 1975)
Director/Co-Screenwriter : Dario Argento
By Roderick Heath
This entry is part of the Italian Horror Blog-a-Thon hosted by Kevin J. Olson of Hugo Stiglitz Makes Movies .
If there’s a problem with Suspiria , often ...
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Red Band
Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
Director : Otto Preminger
By Roderick Heath
Bonjour Tristesse , Françoise Sagan’s famous debut novel is a pseudo-tragic morality play flavoured with haute-couture raciness and 10-franc philosophy. Nonetheless, it was a perceptive work that hit a nerve, all ...
