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Jake MeaneyFeatures FilmNon-sequiturs[1.Jun.07] :. These films share connecting tendrils of a strident defiance of convention, of this total faith in the surface non-sequitur; a seeming senselessness that really only masks the deeper connections and traditions flowing beneath their surfaces.  FilmClosing Night[1.Jun.07] :. An audience decked out in full Boston Red Sox gear waits, in vain, for the appearance of star slugger, David Ortiz -- the film, it seems, was incidental. Meanwhile, Scott Caan, son of the enigmatic James Caan, gives a possible starmaking performance as a wiseguy wannabe.  FilmPreservation and Perseverance[31.May.07] :. Away from Her grasps at that which can't be held and kept: the white of snow, the white of the winter sky, the white of the lacunae of memory. The Paper tires desperately to hold on to the Romantic ideals of journalism at its best, while watching it fade into obsolescence.  FilmProvocations[31.May.07] :. Wild-eyed zealotry and borderline sociopathic behavior make for good cinema. Less spectactularly but no less effective, though, is forcing viewers to take a good, hard look at their own moral make-up, and leaving them contemplating explicitly just where and why boundaries must be drawn.  FilmThe Illusionists[25.May.07] :. A grandiose, delusional pastor turned filmmaker thinks he may have Mel Gibson beat. Elsewhere, a theatre full of delighted LARPers testify to the power of imagination and play. Film Black MirrorsFilm Opening NightReviews DVDsThe Cats of Mirikitani[6.May.08] :. Mirikitani's present parallels with his past; the profiling and targeting of Arab-Americans and Japanese-Americans, the World Trade Center and the bombing of his hometown of Hiroshima .  DVDsThe Final Season[2.May.08] :. This is a well-intentioned little film with its heart in the right place, and everything else out of whack.  DVDsAbel Raises Cain[23.Apr.08] :. Abel's target is not the general public specifically, but rather a point somewhere between the public and the media where lines of believability, responsibility and truth, are confused and always shifting.  DVDsThe Unknown Soldier[21.Apr.08] :. Verhoeven's shows, through this history of the Wehrmacht, just how true the "banality of Evil" philosophy is, and how it happens with such seeming ease.  DVDsChaos[10.Apr.08] :. This film's attempts at clever misdirection are by the book and glaringly obvious. There is nothing remotely "chaotic" about anything that happens. DVDs Christina Aguilera: Back to Basics Live and Down Under [DVD]DVDs SilkDVDs The Mamas & The Papas: Straight Shooter [DVD]DVDs ShatteredDVDs DarkonDVDs Dragon Wars: D-WarFeatured Article DVDsAngel: Complete Series Collectors Set[11.Jan.08] :. This show of moral quandaries, ramifications of choice, and consequences of indifference is one of the great unsung and underappreciated series of the turn of the century. DVDs Ice Road Truckers: The Complete Season OneDVDs TimeFeatured Article DVDsClose Encounters of the Third Kind[17.Dec.07] :. This is a young man's film, a film with its arms and eyes wide open, with none of the paranoia and xenophobia which plague us today. DVDs The Universe: The Complete Season OneDVDs Talk to MeFeatured Article DVDsBreathless[21.Nov.07] :. It's hard to see the revolutionary aspects of Breathless is part thriller, part noir, and part romance. It’s stylish and sexy and tres cool. It's Hollywood, reimagined via Paris. DVDs BugDVDs GracieDVDs ChalkDVDs ClosureDVDs LOLDVDs The MormonsDVDs NeverwasDVDs In Debt We TrustDVDs La Sierra (2005)DVDs Free Zone (2005)DVDs Arang (2006)DVDs The Queen (2006)DVDs Marie Antoinette (2006)PopMatters Pick DVDsCasino Royale (2006)[13.Apr.07] :. Casino Royale feels sleek, lean, shorn of fat, lithely running freely along that relentless but perilous path from point A to point B in classic parkourfashion. DVDs Origins of the MafiaFeatured Article DVDsMutual Appreciation (2005)[16.Mar.07] :. It's like there's a very tight, but infinite, space where essence is found, and Bujalski knows that it's impossible to catch it on film, that it can only be truly seen by revealing its invisibility. DVDs Bloody Ties (2006)DVDs After Innocence (2005)DVDs Hail Mary (1985)DVDs Welcome to Durham (2006)DVDs Sahara: The Forgotten History of the Worlds Harshest DesertDVDs Magma: Volcanic Disaster (2006)DVDs I Trust You to Kill Me (2006)DVDs The Movie Hero (2003)DVDs Pixies: Loudquietloud: A Film About the Pixies [DVD]DVDs Little Man (2006)DVDs Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players [DVD]DVDs The Education of Shelby Knox (2005)DVDs The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2005)DVDs Prison Break - Season OneDVDs The Sentinel (2006)DVDs Shakespeare Behind Bars (2005) |
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