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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999, Minghella)

I don’t have a ton of time today as I’m preparing for a weekend trip and want to get a couple of films in tonight. However! I found time to re-watch one of my favorite films from the 90’s; The...

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Review: The Great Gatsby (2013, Luhrmann)

The Great Gatsby is beloved by countless, a tale about the selfish emptiness within decadence and the upper class, a nation on the cusp of change and the increasingly unattainable American dream....

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Films Seen in 2013 Round-Up: #98-105 & Reintroduction #32

#98. Witchfinder General (1968, Reeves) Depicting violence without key trade-offs for the audience i.e titillation, a focus on the build-up to and the inevitable ‘pay-off’ was a bold and...

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Review: Dead Man’s Burden (2013, Moshe)

Strikingly shot on 35mm in the no-man’s-land vistas of New Mexico, indie western Dead Man’s Burden takes a simmering familial conflict and sets it aflame under overexposed sunlight. Classical in...

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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Summertime (1955, Lean)

The shot I chose from David Lean’s Summertime is central to the fleeting grasp of Jane and Renaldo’s (played by Katherine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi) romance, built around the symbols of goblets,...

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List: Top 30 Anticipated Summer 2013 Films (May-August)

Summer, as we all know, is the season of the blockbuster. Steven Soderbergh’s recent speech at the San Francisco International Film Festival accurately and ardently dug into the state of Hollywood...

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Films Seen in 2013 Round-Up: #91-97

#91. In the House (2013, Ozon) In the House will surely go down as one of my favorite 2013 films by year’s end. Right up there with Francois Ozon’s best work, a director who has avoided a...

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Tribeca Review: The English Teacher (2013, Zisk)

The English Teacher will be released in theaters May 17th. Beneath the artificial layers of lighthearted whimsy and lovelorn sheepishness found in TV veteran Craig Zisk’s feature film debut The...

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Films Seen in 2013 Round-Up: #86-90

#86. The Phantom Tollbooth (1970, Jones) That The Phantom Tollbooth should conceivably work as an animated feature is a no-brainer. Norton Juster’s turn-of-phrase festivities make ‘Tollbooth’ one...

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Review: Antiviral (2013, Cronenberg)

Just because taking a swing at our swarming addiction to celebrity is a can’t-miss target, doesn’t make it any less pertinent. And just because we can lay a falsely prideful claim that, no, we...

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Films Seen in 2013: Round-Up: #80-85 & Reintroduction #31

#80. Room 237 (2013, Ascher) After a director and his/her countless contributing collaborators make a film, it gets sent out into the masses. In this post-modern world, what a director intends is...

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Review: Spring Breakers (2013, Korine)

Spring Breakers is a disturbingly funny nightmare reflection on the generational amalgamation of pop-culture bred youths. The contradictory messages, casual appropriation of black culture,...

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Films Seen in 2013 Round-Up: #74-79

#74. Days of Being Wild (1990, Wong) And with only his sophomore effort, Wong Kar-Wai settles into his niche of depicting the humidified longing of youth with a cool sensibility. I don’t know how...

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Reintroduction #30: Oldboy (2003, Park)

#30. Oldboy (2003, Park) First Seen in: 2006 I didn’t realize it had been so long since I had seen Oldboy, but that’s because the film sticks with you. I believe this was the first Korean film I...

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Review: The Crowd Roars (1932, Hawks)

Seemingly a pedestrian throwaway Warner Bros. production, but in fact a severely overlooked film within Howard Hawks’ filmography. He puts his own personal stamp on this racing film, making Joe a...

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Films Seen in 2013 Round-Up: #67-73

#67. I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK (2006, Park) A major departure for Park in subject matter, but his form and execution remain astutely his. Favoring the subjective, Park Chan-wook’s romantic asylum...

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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Jackie Brown (1997)

This is my third time revisiting Jackie Brown within the past year and up until then I had only seen it once. When I saw that Jackie Brown was being showcased on “Hit Me With Your Best Shot”, I...

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Films Seen in 2013 Round-Up: #61-66

#61. Wreck-It-Ralph (2012, Moore) Sweet and endearing film that gets all the big-picture high concept material right on the money. John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman are a couple of perfect...

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Reintroductions #28-29: A Face in the Crowd & Forbidden Games

This year I’m devoting more time to revisiting films I’ve seen only once, a practice I’ve shamefully neglected. My Reintroduction posts are a place for me to jot down some thoughts and...

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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Forbidden Games (1952)

Forbidden Games takes a look at how children grieve, how they learn to live in the face of death. Forbidden Games takes place during World War II, directed by René Clément with grace and delicacy....

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Review: Jewel Robbery (1932, Dieterle)

Jewels and dalliance; that is all Baroness Teri (Kay Francis) cares about. She has an impossibly rich husband (Henry Kolker), who buys her whatever she can dream up. We first meet her in a bath,...

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Review: Stoker (2013, Park)

For a good hearty while, I had been identifying the then upcoming and now ongoing 2013 in film as the year that would see the Western debuts of three major Korean filmmakers. Right off the bat we...

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Review: Housewife (1934, Green)

Meet Nan (Ann Dvorak). She’s ‘just a housewife’. She has a precocious turd of a son and a casually sexist husband (played by George Brent) who can’t be bothered with ‘the little things’. But of...

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Films Seen in 2013 Round-Up: #50-60

#50. Oz the Great and Powerful (2013, Raimi): http://cinenthusiast.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/review-oz-the-great-and-powerful-2013-raimi/ #51. Dreamscape (1984, Ruben) There’s a reason Dennis Quaid...

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Reintroductions #24-27: The Others, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Barbarella and An American in Paris

This year I’m devoting more time to revisiting films I’ve seen only once, a practice I’ve shamefully neglected. My Reintroduction posts are a place for me to jot down some thoughts and...

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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Barbarella (1968)

Of course the shot I choose from Barbarella is going to feature Jane Fonda. The question is which one? Roger Vadim took the women in his life and created a celluloid shrine for their bodies....

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Review: Oz the Great and Powerful (2013, Raimi)

One of the shots that made an impression Oz hath no fury like a woman scorned. Disney teamed up with Sam Raimi in the hopes of reigniting the magic of Oz, a la 2010’s decidedly unmagical Alice in...

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Films Seen in 2013 Round-Up: #43-49

#43. The Long Goodbye (1973, Altman): A http://cinenthusiast.wordpress.com/2013/03/10/the-long-goodbye-1973-altman/ #44. Foxy Brown (1974, Hill): B- My first blaxploitation movie! I’d appreciate...

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The Narrow Margin (1952, Fleischer)

From the word go, credits careen towards yo, setting the pace for this bracingly economical, twisty b-noir that knocked my socks off. Not only one of my personal favorite noirs, but now one of my...

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The Long Goodbye (1973, Altman)

Altman revamps film-noir one year after his revisionist Western McCabe and Mrs. Miller. But instead of turning everything we know about genre presentation upside down, as in McCabe, The Long...

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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999, Minghella)

Review: The Great Gatsby (2013, Luhrmann)

Films Seen in 2013 Round-Up: #98-105 & Reintroduction #32

Review: Dead Man’s Burden (2013, Moshe)

Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Summertime (1955, Lean)

List: Top 30 Anticipated Summer 2013 Films (May-August)

Films Seen in 2013 Round-Up: #91-97

Tribeca Review: The English Teacher (2013, Zisk)

Films Seen in 2013 Round-Up: #86-90

Review: Antiviral (2013, Cronenberg)

Films Seen in 2013: Round-Up: #80-85 & Reintroduction #31

Review: Spring Breakers (2013, Korine)

Films Seen in 2013 Round-Up: #74-79

Reintroduction #30: Oldboy (2003, Park)

Review: The Crowd Roars (1932, Hawks)

Films Seen in 2013 Round-Up: #67-73

Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Jackie Brown (1997)

Films Seen in 2013 Round-Up: #61-66

Reintroductions #28-29: A Face in the Crowd & Forbidden Games

Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Forbidden Games (1952)

Review: Jewel Robbery (1932, Dieterle)

Review: Stoker (2013, Park)

Review: Housewife (1934, Green)

Films Seen in 2013 Round-Up: #50-60

Reintroductions #24-27: The Others, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Barbarella and An American in Paris

Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Barbarella (1968)

Review: Oz the Great and Powerful (2013, Raimi)

Films Seen in 2013 Round-Up: #43-49

The Narrow Margin (1952, Fleischer)

The Long Goodbye (1973, Altman)

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