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Reiner and Goldman manage to marry timeless storytelling elements with modern comedic sensibilities in such a way that it will never feel corny, old-fashioned, or dated.
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From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.
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The Princess Bride: 20th Anniversary Edition
This itself modern through that little smidgen of precocious reflexivity, and a healthy does of kitsch.
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The Free Will
When it comes to depicting angst-ridden anti-heros like Theo, this film takes an approach most don't have the courage to try.
23 Jul 2008
Youth Without Youth
"You learn more quickly, more profoundly in dreams" -- the audience becomes a part of the hallucinations.
04 Jun 2008
White Mane
The blending of the natural with the fantastical is truly remarkable and elevates this film from simple child’s play to high art.
04 May 2008
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An intriguing drama that creates a complex world of scandal so atmospheric that you hardly realize how truly discomfiting and bizarre the imagery is until you've emerged from it.
Matthew A. Stern
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Youth Without Youth
Based on the writings of Mircea Eliade, Francis Ford Coppola's first movie in 10 years is goofy, contrived, and self-absorbed.
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La Jetee / Sans Soleil (1962)
The persistence and permutation of memory (or the truth about cats, blondes, Hitchcock, video games, and the post-apocalypse) -- what more would you expect from Chris Marker's entry into the Criterion Collection?
19 Jul 2007
Part 2: The Changing Face of Filmmaking
Every staid situation needs shaking up, none more so that the labored Hollywood studio system. The titles chosen for this section stand out as reasons why things had to change, the results of those seismic stylistic shifts.
18 Jun 2007
Part 1: Pure Classicism
In its infancy, the cinematic artform went through some formidable technological and stylistic changes. The ten DVDs discussed here highlight the very definition of the Golden Age of filmmaking.
17 Jun 2007
Kids' DVDs: June 2007
Given that babies and young children love nothing more than repetition, repetition, and... um.... repetition, I can't understand why even the pointiest of heads would think children between the ages of six months and three years could possible need 23 different Baby Einstein DVDs.
05 Jun 2007
La Vie Promise (2002)
Despite Huppert’s commendable performance this film sinks under the weight of derivative characters, contrived and overly convenient plot points, and simplistic themes.
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