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PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own Feature

Part 5: The Return of the Auteur

by PopMatters Staff

[22.Jun.07] :. That noise you heard near the start of the new millennium was the creative din of a brash new breed of filmmakers tearing down the traditions of mainstream moviemaking. Their motion picture mission statements -- including the ones featured on this list -- remain the rulebook for new generations of anxious film artists.

PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own

 

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Tia Dalma of ‘Pirates’ was a role to dye for

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[25.May.07] :. Tia Dalma, the sultry, scary, tattooed voodoo priestess, played a pivotal role in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. But her part is vastly more important in the third film in...

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Film Review

Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.May.07] :. In the just-in-time for Memorial Day weekend Pirates sequel, Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) pursues pleasure with the sort of determination usually associated with moviegoers.

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The PopMatters Summer 2007 Movie Preview Feature

Monkey Business (Part 1: May)

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.07] :. Talk about frontloading your approach. Each week in this first full month of patented popcorn movies finds another famous franchise icon making a major blockbuster bow. Only truly disastrous results from these guaranteed crowd-pleasers will keep the coffers from clogging with cash.

The PopMatters Summer 2007 Movie Preview

 

Film Review

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Jul.06] :. Demented and punctuated by Depp's scowls and "oofs," Jack Sparrow's stunty bits are mostly amusing and sometimes even surprising.

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Film DVD Review

Elizabethtown: Widescreen Special Collector’s Edition (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Feb.06] :. The DVD of Elizabethtown is called the Widescreen Special Collector's Edition, though there's not one thing special about it.

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Elizabethtown (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Oct.05] :. Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown does not know how to end.

 

Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.May.05] :. As history, it is mightily revisionist -- a blacksmith named turns inadvertent defender of Jerusalem, devoted to the notion that Muslims and Christians can get along.

 

Ned Kelly (2003)

by Daniel Mudie Cunningham

[7.Jun.04] :. Ned might have been a criminal in the eyes of the law, but to working class Australians he was a hero wrongly accused.

 

Troy (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.May.04] :. According to Troy, war is all about reputation.

 

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Dec.03] :. No in-betweeners in this reductive view of the world: characters and choices are good or evil.

 

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Dec.03] :. Johnny Depp spent time learning to swordfight, so that Captain Jack Sparrow could be poised and everready -- in a word, the Muhammad Ali of swordfighters.

 

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Jul.03] :. Ingenious and mesmerizing, Johnny Depp embodies the film's essential fantasy, that a pirate's life is exciting and unfettered.

 

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Dec.02] :. It's useful to remember that, offscreen, both good and bad tend to be tricksy.