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Filmbrain's Screen Capture Quiz: Round 17, Week 5
Published 10/1/2008 by Filmbrain at Like Anna Karina's Sweater
... As you've no doubt read elsewhere, Monday was Che press day at the NYFF, and the Ziegfeld Theater was packed with critics absorbing Soderbergh's four-hour-plus epic. In a nutshell -- I was underwhelmed. Technically brilliant, but thematically and emotionally flat. Not dull by any means, but not terribly engaging either.Then again, some respected critics admire the film's detachment. I guess I'll take that over standard bio-pic fare, but perhaps I need to see it a second time to better grasp was Soderbergh was striving for. ...

What's the Buzz: New York Film Festival
Published 10/2/2008 by Peter Martin at Cinematical
... felt that Soderbergh's "unwillingness to make a statement may be a major part of the problem." On the other hand, Glenn Kenny of Some Came Running opined: "Silly me, I imagined that such an approach constituted a statement sufficient unto itself, but apparently not." The film will get a ...

CHE: A Generational Divide?
Published 10/9/2008 by Karina Longworth at SpoutBlog
... premiered at the New York Film Festival last week, Glenn Kenny wrote two blog posts in which he criticized anonymous critics for their criticism of Che’s lack of “human drama.” I knew I was implicated in the complaint –– In his first post, Kenny directly quoted a phrase I used in ...