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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 ...
Movies
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 ...
Movies
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 ...
Movies
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, ...
Movies
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 ...
Television
Planet Earth
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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 ...
For the Love of Movies
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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 ...
Movies
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 ...
Twilight
Twilight
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” ...
Celebrities
Nelson Mandela
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’ ...
Movies
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31 Days of Horror – Nobukhi Obayashi’s debut
feature incorporates a kitchen sink’s worth of visual and
optical effects – matte paintings, chroma key, hand-drawn animation, puppetry, collage, stop-motion, slow-motion, ...
Hausu
31 Days of Horror – There’s a scene in Lewis Allen’s The Uninvited where young Stella, the bright-eyed young thing at the crux of this ghost story, comments to beau Roderick Fitzgerald on a reckless car ride that being scared is, in fact, quite fun. This is completely ...
Movies
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31 Days of Horror – In pursuit of
its pecuniary goal, Zombi 4 borrows heavily from any
and all sources of popular zombie fare, including the work of Fulci, Romero, and even Raimi. From a mirroring of Zombie ’s isolated island ...
Zombi 4: After Death
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31 Days of Horror – Having never seen
any of the Saw films, I thought it would
be a fun experiment to start with Saw VI , the most recent installation, and see what I could piece together of the previous five films based on my ...
Saw VI
The Final Destination series of teen horror movies, all four of which were released this decade, often feel like elongated and more expensive versions of those campy, crude safety videos from the ’70s and ’80s. Death, or Fate, or whomever it is that is supposed to be going ...
Movies
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31 Days of Horror – We have been
told that slashers are sexist and gross, that the
only reason these films exist is to cater to a misogynist culture that derives sick sexual pleasure from watching women die. And even though contemporary ...
The Slumber Party Massacre
