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Accepting the Absurd via Super Smash Bros. Brawl

[17.Apr.08] :. While video games will always adopt varying levels of verisimilitude, the Wii presents a novel challenge to the conventional consciousness, and that is an attack on realism.

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Film

Grotesque Neo-Realism: Discussing Martin Scorsese's Confounding Style

[29.Jun.07] :. Obscenities, Catholic imagery, self-immolation, blood-soaked killing sprees and falling from grace: what lies beneath the surface of filmmaker Martin Scorsese's distinctive style?

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Le Gai savoir

[14.May.08] :. This is the ne plus ultra of intellectual torture tests, dripping with intertextuality and esoteric post-structural philosophy.

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Comics

M by Jon J. Muth

[6.May.08] :. Combining broad strokes of dynamism with incredible tonal control and precious-few dabs of color, Muth not only captures the fog of noir which sets over Lang’s original, he actually improves upon it.

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DVDs

Cloverfield

[21.Apr.08] :. By being both absolutely verisimilar and absolutely unreal, Cloverfield highlights the extent to which reality is natively constructed.

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DVDs

The Films of Sergei Paradjanov

[18.Apr.08] :. With this well-packaged collection, the viewer is given the idiosyncratic, the polish, the esoteric, and the translation. In short -- a wonderful and full sense of Paradjanov as a director.

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DVDs

The Unknown Trilogy

[18.Mar.08] :. I have seen Powerpoints that had more faith in their content.

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DVDs   Death at a Funeral

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Comics   Southern Cross

Books   Life, in Pictures by Will Eisner

Comics   The Killer

DVDs   La Vie En Rose (La Môme)

Books   Iconic America by Tommy Hilfiger, George Lois

DVDs   Transformers

DVDs   Tokko, Vol. 3

DVDs   Silk

DVDs   Various Artists: This Aint Your Moms Hardcore [DVD]

DVDs   Queen: DVD Collectors Box [DVD]

DVDs   Noein: To Your Other Self, Vol. 4

DVDs   Tokko, Vol. 2

DVDs   Vocal Group Hall of Fame: Induction Ceremony, Vol. 4 [DVD]

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Two Soldiers (2003)

[17.Jul.07] :. Two Soldiers does more for filmmaking and your library of DVDs in under 50 minutes than a shelf full of the three-hour feats of endurance that are now commonplace.

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DVDs   Essential Classics - Romances

DVDs   Monsieur N (2003)

DVDs   Le Petit Lieutenant (2005)

DVDs   Wisdom in Chains: Die for Us, Live [DVD]

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Essential Classics - Dramas (1947)

[11.May.07] :. This collection is an archive which excludes the archivist as target audience.

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DVDs   The Art of Passion (1994)

TV   Thank God Youre Here

DVDs   Tokko, Vol. 1 (2007)

DVDs   Mendy (2006)

 
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