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Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs Feature

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 3

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Oct.08] :. Day Three - The final ten, a cross-culture collection teeming with big ideas, larger than life visions, and perhaps the greatest documentary on rugby you've probably never heard of.

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There Will Be Blood

by Jesse Hassenger

[8.Apr.08] :. However fictional, Daniel Plainview is like history come to life -- more Frankenstein's monster than wax doll.

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There will be confusion: Deliberately vague films leave critic cold

by Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[24.Feb.08] :. Walking out of a press screening of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” in early November, I turned to a fellow critic in the hopes that he might explain a plot point that...

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To his latest director, Daniel Day-Lewis is ‘the man’

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[4.Jan.08] :. “Maybe it’s presumptuous to say this, but from a director’s point of view he’s the Holy Grail of actors, isn’t he? At least he always was to me. Like, `that’s the...

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There Will Be Blood

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Jan.08] :. Land, oil, blood. There will be lots of all in Paul Thomas Anderson's stunning new movie.

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Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Jun.03] :. Deftly rearranges any number of generic conventions, from romantic comedies, musicals, and melodramas with happy endings that can't make sense but seem inevitable and necessary.

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Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Oct.02] :. Deftly rearranges any number of generic conventions, from romantic comedies, musicals, and melodramas with happy endings that can't make sense but seem inevitable and necessary.

 

Magnolia (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Riding in his cruiser, LAPD Officer Jim Kurring (John C. Reilly) explains what his days are like. While he laments “so much violence,” he also understands it as “the way of the...

 

Magnolia (1999)

by Todd Ramlow

As Academy Award nomination season rolls around, I hope that Paul Thomas Anderson’s absolutely brilliant Magnolia receives the accolades that it so richly deserves. The pedestrian tastes...