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Twin Peaks: The Definitive Gold Box Edition

by Stuart Henderson

[29.Nov.07] :. With crisp performances throughout (especially from Kyle MacLachlan, in a role he was born to play), unforgettable settings and cinematography, and inventive, uncompromising scripts from episode to episode, Twin Peaks makes for uncommonly rewarding repeat viewings.

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Lust, Caution (Se, jie)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Oct.07] :. The primary question in Lust, Caution (Se, jie) is: "What is real?"

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Saving Face (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.May.05] :. The center of Alice Wu's debut film, Saving Face, Wil is both driven and dutiful.

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Autumn in New York (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Everyone in the film can see that pairing a 48-year-old womanizer with a 22-year-old girl dying from a sketchy illness 'of the heart' is lame, not to mention derivative, unpleasant, and pathetic.

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Autumn in New York (2000)

by Anne Daugherty

While watching Autumn in New York, I was struck by its parallel to the Clinton-Lewinsky business. There are superficial similarities, especially in the lead players — a powerful 50-ish...

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What’s Cooking? (2000)

by Stephen Tropiano

What’s Cooking? opens with a photograph of a white, All-American-looking family gathered around a Thanksgiving turkey. As the camera zooms out, we discover the image is an advertisement...

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Xiu Xiu, the Sent Down Girl (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Boys and girls are dressed alike, singing in unison, sitting rapt before a movie screen that shows glorious war footage, the triumph of good over evil. These early images in Joan Chen's debut feature, Xiu Xiu, the Sent Down Girl, set the scene i

 
 
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