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Earth 22 Apr 2009 | 09:31 pm
Though it is little more than a repackaging of footage and narrative arcs from the acclaimed BBC/Discovery Channel television series "Planet Earth", it is hard not to be awestruck by Disneynature's in...
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist 23 Nov 2008 | 07:17 pm
Youthful libidos are undeniable, and in a teenage flick, as the American Pie franchise proved, a first kiss is no longer sufficient. In Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, many subplots revolve around...
Ashes of Time Redux 23 Nov 2008 | 06:59 pm
Wong Kar-Wai first made Ashes of Time in 1994, and this film was meant to be an epic, defining work. But because of forces outside the filmmaker’s control, his vision was compromised. It was his other...
Tulpan 23 Nov 2008 | 06:37 pm
Four years in the making, Tulpan is Kazakh documentary filmmaker Sergei Dvortsevoy’s first fiction feature. The in-the-moment stylistic approach of his nonfiction work remains intact in this film, whi...
Nights and Weekends 9 Nov 2008 | 02:00 am
With the advent of digital camcorders and cheap editing software, anyone can make a movie. Anyone usually does — but most people are not capable of sustaining a mood and a relationship between their t...
Beautiful Losers 8 Nov 2008 | 06:12 pm
Beautiful Losers is a loosely organised documentary about 11 artists who had in common their exhibits at director Aaron Rose’s art gallery in New York in the 1990s. Via footage of their exhibits, the ...
Religulous 8 Nov 2008 | 05:56 pm
It is depressing that in our current climate, any serious discussion of religion is considered either only for crazy people, or utterly beyond critical analysis. The murder of Theo van Gogh, and the r...
Incendiary 16 Oct 2008 | 03:56 am
There are three movies inside Incendiary struggling to get out. There’s one about the grief of a young mother (Michelle Williams) who loses her husband and beloved 4-year-old son in a terrorist attack...
A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël) 14 Oct 2008 | 03:50 am
Just hearing the title A Christmas Tale brings either of two things to mind: a warm, fuzzy Disney-produced, Chris Columbus-directed narrative about a child who ultimately discovers the importance of f...
Gomorrah 5 Oct 2008 | 06:57 pm
When one hears the words “Italian mafia movie,” the first thing to come to mind likely would not be Gomorrah’s shocking opening scene, which depicts a group of nameless mobsters who meet their fates w...
