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All posts by John Oursler
“The Danish Girl” Is Pristinely Inoffensive
In its presentation, The Danish Girl—Tom Hooper’s portrait of Lili Elbe, a transgender woman and the first known recipient of sex-reassignment surgery—is a fairly standard coming-of-age story that follows Einar (Eddie Redmayne) and his wife Gerde (Alicia Vikan...
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“A Most Violent Year”
Watching JC Chandor’s expertly crafted period crime drama A Most Violent Year, it’s likely you’ll say to yourself, “this is good, but I feel like I’ve seen it before.” This is an understandable reaction, and one that might even persist after the film’s explosi...
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From the Film Society Lincoln Center: “Cinema of Resistance” Series Once Removed
Film Society Lincoln Center brings “cinema of resistance” to its programming calendar, an unearthed look at films that function as political protests and calls to arms. From regions far and wide, the films encapsulated within this series examine some of the mo...
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