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Jean-Luc Godard: 3-Disc Collector’s Edition

by Chadwick Jenkins

[21.Mar.08] :. For all of pretense surrounding these films and their attempts to grapple with "big ideas", they are, ultimately, experiences that one must live through; they demand viewing and listening.

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The Comedy of Power

by Meremu C.

[1.Aug.07] :. Chabrol is often labeled the French Hitchcock for his fascination with intrigue, the criminal mind, moral compromise, and guilt.

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Violette Nozière (1978)

by Meremu C.

[12.Jul.07] :. Violette, a classic French thriller that compels right at the ultra-noir first moment.

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I Heart Huckabees: 2-Disc Special Edition (2004)

by Bill Gibron

[23.Mar.05] :. The Special Edition is loaded with so much self-referential material and 'oh so clever' concepts that they threaten to make the movie into its own cult object.

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I Heart Huckabees: 2-Disc Special Edition (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Feb.05] :. As hard as he tries, Albert can't quite keep up with the Jaffes' questions, let alone their answers.

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Time of the Wolf (Le Temps du loup) (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Feb.05] :. In Michael Haneke's version of the end of the world, things are different.

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I Heart Huckabees (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Oct.04] :. Albert is again faced with basic questions: Are we really 'all connected'? How can 'everything be the same even if it's different'?"

Time of the Wolf (2003)

by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece

[15.Jul.04] :. In Time of the Wolf, a family vacationing in the French countryside is split apart by shocking violence and faced with unspeakable horrors.

Amateur (1994)

by Terry Sawyer

[1.Dec.03] :. Its strengths lie not in this improbable plot, but in Hartley's challenges to conventions.

8 Women (2002)

by Elbert Ventura

[19.Sep.02] :. Sabotaging the happy play of color, song, and glamour with a deeply felt despair, Ozon has finally made his subversiveness genuinely surprising.

Les Destinées (2000)

by Elbert Ventura

[25.Apr.02] :. As its title suggests, the pall of inevitability hangs over Les Destinées.

The Piano Teacher (2001)

by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece

[4.Apr.02] :. Haneke's films challenge not only media violence, but also unsuccessful satires of media violence, like Oliver Stone's indulgent, bloodily hedonistic 'Natural Born Killers'.