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The 100 Essential Directors Part 9: Victor Sjöström to Luchino Visconti
Today we present a glorious spate of international auteurs that range from cinematic innovators from the silent era to those who continue to push the limits of film in their contemporary work.
28 Aug 2011
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When Greed Is Good
The economic system has only one purpose, which is to create wealth. In the market’s language, this is the only “good". If evil exists, then it must be loss, which is the opposite of the good. For Gordon Gekko, this is the only morality which exists.
Daniel Tovrov
19 May 2011
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Hangin' with the New Bolivarians in Oliver Stone's 'South of the Border'
Oliver Stone has chosen to channel his 'radical' political leanings into his documentaries, and this film would seem to bear that out.
01 Mar 2011
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Masters of the Universe: Oliver Stone's 'Wall Street'
In his desire to trump his upper crust "superiors", Gekko's personal ethic could be read as a perverted, ultimately hypocritical form of populist revolt.
26 Sep 2010
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Reconsidering the Oliver Stone Filmography
As Oliver Stone's update to the Wall Street hits theatres, PopMatters is taking a look back at select works by the influential and thought-provoking director.
24 Sep 2010
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The Fall of the Oliver Stone Empire: A Director and His Critics
Until 2004, Oliver Stone could never be accused of shying away from anything. Once he did, the critics pounced.
24 Sep 2010
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It Will All Be Yours: 'Natural Born Killers' and the Dead End of Allusion
On the eve of the release of Oliver Stone's new film, Thomas Britt reflects on Stone's Natural Born Killers and the mass murdering mayhem courtesy of the fabulously alliterative, famously insane characters of Mickey and Mallory Knox.
23 Sep 2010
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Natural Born Killers: The Director's Cut
Stone's pedigree secure, the Hollywood maverick turned on the system itself; tarring sensationalism, public bloodlust, and judicial entropy, seemingly with the same brush.
15 Nov 2009
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Natural Born Killers (Director's Cut) Comes Out on DVD (video)
12 Oct 2009
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The Man Who Wasn't There: Wrestling with Oliver Stone's W. and the Enigma of George W. Bush
Stone doesn't "get" Bush’s true historical legacy (any more than the rest of us do in 2008), but he cannily realizes that, warts and all, Bush is an undeniably pivotal figure.
05 Nov 2008
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World Trade Center
While the survivors lie within this well of shadows and shards, the film shows tv viewers around the world, briefly united in horror and incredulity, watching iconic CNN footage.
08 Aug 2006
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Alexander: Director's Cut (2004)
Oliver Stone calls his Alexander 'a new genre, a masculine-feminine action figure,' more like Monty Clift and James Dean than Russell Crowe.
Cynthia Fuchs
09 Aug 2005
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Alexander (2004)
Though Olympias is unbeatably charismatic (and plain fun amid all the drearily inclined boys), the film takes a typically Stonian approach to the evil woman.
Cynthia Fuchs
23 Nov 2004
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