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‘Che’ director Steven Soderbergh’s revolutionary filmmaking

by Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[26.Feb.09] :. It’s a face recognized even by those who know nothing about the man behind it. He peers at us fromT-shirts and posters and magazines, a bearded man in a beret who 42 years after his death...

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Behind the scenes of ‘Che’ with Steven Soderbergh

by Michael Phillips [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[22.Jan.09] :. “I can’t sit here and tell you I think movies make any difference at all,” director Steven Soderbergh says, halfway through a bowl of soup at Pierrot Gourmet next door to the...

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The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Jan.09] :. Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.

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Fast chat with ‘Che’ star Benicio Del Toro

by Joseph V. Amodio [Newsday (MCT)]

[15.Jan.09] :. You’ve seen the T-shirts. Everywhere. With that face - the beard, beret, eyes burning with revolution. Yet, few people know much about the man behind the tee. Benicio Del Toro hopes to change...

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Che

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Jan.09] :. Che is about the dissemination of Che Guevara the icon, as it is also the saga of Che refashioned.

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Column: The Screener

Guerrilla Patton

by Chris Barsanti

[8.Jan.09] :. Soderbergh's supersized retelling of the Che Guevara legend is an uncomfortable mix of war procedural and unabashed hero worship; ingenious but flawed.

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Stop-Loss

by Tiffany White

[7.Aug.08] :. Realism doesn't make a better movie, just a more sensitive one.

 

Stop-Loss

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Mar.08] :. In Brandon's confrontations with his own delusions, Stop-Loss focuses on unhealthy rituals of manhood and male community recalling Peirce's Boys Don't Cry.

 

Z-Boys, Cool Losers

by Ryan Smith

[13.Jun.07] :. The underlying motivation to save Horizons West was about Sticking It to The Man. Us versus Them. Punk culture versus conformist culture. Poor against rich. All, interestingly enough, attitudes heavy in the subtext of the Z-Boys movies.

 

Lords of Dogtown (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Jun.05] :. The most thrilling moments in Lords of Dogtown involve skateboard wheels.

 

Raising Victor Vargas: Special Edition (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Aug.04] :. What makes Raising Victor Vargas especially rewarding are its details -- in composition, rhythm, and especially, characterization.

 

Raising Victor Vargas (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Aug.03] :. Victor's story is at once mundane and delicate, familiar and fresh.

 

Raising Victor Vargas (2003)

by Elbert Ventura

[24.Apr.03] :. At once affectless and affecting, 'Raising Victor Vargas' is remarkably self-possessed for a first-time feature.