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Paranoid Park (TIFF 2007)

by Matt Mazur

[14.Mar.08] :. Gus Van Sant is concerned with portraying the developing moral compass of a jaded youth with a heartfelt sincerity and a steady hand.

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Paranoid Park

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Mar.08] :. The movie realizes Alex's desperate, poetic subjectivity in layers. His halting voiceover is perfectly unmatched with the uneven editing and skips back and forth in time.

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Mala Noche

by Meremu C.

[13.Dec.07] :. Mala Noche's original trailer boasts that it is a story of power, sex, money, and death. They weren’t kidding.

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Last Days (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Aug.05] :. A mediation on sadness, desire, lack of direction... and yes, Kurt Cobain, Last Days seems almost to stretch out its minutes.

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My Own Private Idaho: Criterion Collection (1991)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Mar.05] :. Mike and Scott live a strangely lyrical credence. Simultaneously inviting and resisting interpretation, they move on.

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Elephant (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Nov.03] :. While the kids make dates and plans, you know, moment by moment, that catastrophe is imminent.

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Gerry (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Feb.03] :. By turns daunting and absorbing, the film is about movement that seems hopeless, that takes you nowhere, that's increasingly slowed but also increasingly urgent.

 

Finding Forrester (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Just when did Gus Van Sant get religion? The once adventurous and near-miracle-working director (he convinced William S. Burroughs to appear in Drugstore Cowboy and coaxed the best performance...

 
 
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