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Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 1: The Thin Red Line to Star Wars Episode I (January - May 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[23.Mar.09] :. The first part of PopMatters' look back at the films of 1999 is bookended by the long awaited return of two cinematic auteurs of wildly different styles, Terrence Malick and George Lucas.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

Film Review

The Lodger

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Jan.09] :. David Ondaatje's movie offers up a series of potentially interesting meta-texts, concerning the significantly named Manning's obsession and aggression, his professional identity and, of course, masculinity.

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Film Review

Redbelt

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.May.08] :. In Redbelt, as ever in David Mamet's universe, the fight is the issue.

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The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview Feature

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: May 2008

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.08] :. In the first act of this four-part production, Tinsel Town decides to do some unbelievable front loading. Will there be room for independent offerings, or former HBO carnal comedy divas? Who knows? Without a doubt, it's an interesting way to start the season.

The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview

 

Film Review

“Asian mom torches spouse!“Provoked (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.May.07] :. By offsetting Women in Cages-style throw-downs with Malcolm X-like uplift, it is simultaneously strange and familiar, inspiring and annoying.

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Film DVD Review

Edmond (2005)

by Brian Holcomb

[3.Oct.06] :. An excellent noir, or a tragicomedy, about the repressed beliefs in all of us.

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Edmond (2005)

by Jesse Hicks

[25.Aug.06] :. Violence liberates Edmond from society's restraints, focuses him on fulfilling his own desires, makes him appealing to the opposite sex.

 

Shopgirl (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Apr.06] :. Director Anand Tucker insists his film is not about the glitzy L.A. It is, instead, about an L.A. populated with 'ordinary people just like you and me, getting on with their lives.'"

 

Shopgirl (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Oct.05] :. For all its seeming delicacy, its view of Mirabelle as perfect, precious object is decidedly limited.

 

Heist (2001)

by WRITER

[8.Nov.01] :. [David Mamet's] language, severe and spare, actually sounds quite human comin