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Articles tagged "chris weitz" Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 FeaturePart 2: The Virgin Suicides to The Blair Witch Project (May - August 1999)by PopMatters Staff[24.Mar.09] :. In Part Two of our look at the most memorable films of 1999, we experience music, foul-mouthed mayhem, and a late, great auteur's final cinematic statement. Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999  Film DVD ReviewThe Golden Compassby Lara Killian[13.May.08] :. Scruffy and unpolished in the open casting call, Dakota Blue Richards shines in her role as the gutsy heroine.  NewsThe author of ‘The Golden Compass’ doesn’t mince wordsby Robert K. Elder [Chicago Tribune (MCT)][13.Dec.07] :. He certainly doesn’t look like a god-killer. But that’s how critics cast him: a deity-smashing heretic, bent on spreading godlessness with children’s tales. No, in person, author...  NewsCritics say ‘Golden Compass’ is atheist agenda disguised in fantasyby Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][9.Dec.07] :. Since its beginning, critics have denounced the film industry as a godless enterprise leading innocent minds astray. Now, say the critics, the industry is pushing a children’s movie with an...  NewsCritics say ‘Golden Compass’ is atheist agenda disguised in fantasyby Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][7.Dec.07] :. Since its beginning, critics have denounced the film industry as a godless enterprise leading innocent minds astray. Now, say the critics, the industry is pushing a children’s movie with an... Film ReviewThe Golden Compassby Cynthia Fuchs[7.Dec.07] :. Too bland and disjointed to match up with either set up expectations, The Golden Compass is too familiar to be beguiling, too interested in appeasing masses and selling the Corgi toy line. Director says initial reaction to ‘Compass’ hasn’t been goldenby Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)][6.Dec.07] :. Chris Weitz is a moviemaker on the spot. He’s just directed a multi-million dollar movie fantasy, “The Golden Compass,” which opens around the world Friday. And nobody seems willing... ‘Compass’ author’s atheism stirs debate on film’s messageby Duane Dudek [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)][6.Dec.07] :. Nina Hemmer is a reader. The 11-year-old Shorewood, Wis., girl is plowing through the Bible and hopes “to get to the part about Jesus’ birth by Christmas,” said her mother, Cathy... Chuck & Buck (2000)by Lucas HilderbrandIf this film only accomplishes one thing, it's this: acknowledging that even straight boys explore their sexuality with their male friends and come out of the experience more aware of themselves, not necessarily fucked up. Chuck & Buck (2000)by Cynthia FuchsLike Arteta's intelligent and lively first feature, Star Maps, Chuck and Buck takes emotional risks and poses questions - about children and adults, responsibility and sexuality -- that other films will not. |
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