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Hiring David Gordon Green—a Terrence Malick/Charles Burnett disciple whose films play to niche audiences, even in arthouse cinemas—to direct a mainstream action comedy about two stoners who go on the run after witnessing a murder? It’s the kind of idea that you’d only come up with if you were high—and for all I know, that’s precisely the state actor/screenwriter Seth Rogen and producer Judd ... [link]

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Links for the Day (August 4th, 2008)
Published 8/4/2008 by Keith Uhlich (noreply@blogger.com) at The House Next Door
... at Elusive Lucidity, who briefly mentions Zacharek's anti-intellectual Godard takedown in the midst of his passionate advocacy of leftism. I decided that Zacharek's melange of unchallenged assertions and snide insinuations deserved some of the close critical examination that she so steadfastly refused to extend to either Godard's films or Brody's biography. I'll start with her opening paragraphs:"] *** 4. "High Anxiety": At The Moviegoer, Paul Matwychuk reviews Pineapple ...

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