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All posts by Anna Tatarska
Wes Side Story: Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest” Delightfully Opens 64th Berlinale
Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel delightfully opens the Berlinale.
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‘Labor Day’: A Conventional Tearjerker
Jason Reitman's latest film is surprising. It manages to preserve only scarce traces of what defined its predecessors, Juno, Up in the Air and Young Adult - a particular sense of humour that infused the overall tone and shaped the films' attitude. Labor Day, o...
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This ‘Stranger By The Lake’ Is Masculine, Murderous and Mesmerizing
This French erotic thriller is subtly compelling.
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These ‘Big Bad Wolves’ Have Teeth But No Heart
Israel's foray into grindhouse horror lacks the emotional pull to be truly effective.
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‘Paradise: Hope’ Is An Unshapely Fat Camp Prison Movie
The third film in Seidl's "Paradise" trilogy is unfortunately the weakest entry.
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Hollywood’s Struggle For Gender Equality is Improving But Far From Over
Women are making important strides in the filmmaking scene, but there's still a deeply-ingrained gender bias.
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Teen Romance Blooms In Post-Apocalyptic England In ‘How I Live Now’
Nineteen-year-old Saoirse Ronan has thoughtfully created her onscreen image, firmly building her position within the film industry. At 13, she earned an Oscar nomination for Joe Wright's Atonement, one of her first film roles ever. Since then, the young actres...
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‘The Broken Circle Breakdown’ Shakes Up Formulaic Romance
Love hurts. It's a fact widely known, even to children and pop singers. Fueled by pop-cultural need, “love” has become a trademark, a t-shirt selling, cupcake-decorating, overly sugary and glittery yet empty term. Accordingly, all its emotional profits and bur...
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Shoot to the Beat: The Lasting Relevance of the Beat Generation
“Holy Peter holy Allen holy Solomon holy Lucien holy Kerouac holy Huncke holy Burroughs holy Cassady...” [1]
Beatniks have intrigued and inspired since the beginning of their movement. For the mainstream media and film that favored shortcuts, redundancy and...
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Villeneuve’s ‘Prisoners’ Packs Powerful Performances
Denis Villeneuve (Incendies) has a great gift for building tension without resorting to pathos. It deserves true recognition, especially considering the immensely delicate and emotional subject matter his new film, Prisoners, touches upon. Most filmmakers woul...
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