8 years ago
The Canon (5 posts found)
Modern essentials
The Spectacular Silent Snow White, Blancanieves
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Blancanieves is a truly stunning motion picture, the kind of movie that makes you glad the movies exist. One of the most original and charming films of the year, it is an imaginative interpretation of the Snow White fairy tale that combines the visual powe...
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Beyond the Hills: Something Wicked This Way Comes
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There's a moment in the final act of Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's monastery-set drama Beyond the Hills that, under the hands of any other director, could've been played up as something from a conventional, generic psychological horror film. But thi...
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Stoker: Korean Style Meets American Gothic in Beautifully Depraved Coming-of-Age Tale
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At what point does style become substance? Many of Alfred Hitchcock’s thrillers were really quite pedestrian, predictable stories, but the director’s mastery of style and craft turned many of those films into beautiful works of art. The same could be said...
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Lore: A Nation Divided; A Woman Torn
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World War II has been depicted so much in films that it's practically a genre. And like all genres, we've come to expect all that we could from any WWII movie. Also like all genres: After a while, there's bound to be someone willing to bring an original ...
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Amour: Cry Me a Riva
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Michael Haneke is a filmmaker who has been fascinated by suffering throughout his career. Be it the stalker notes in Cache or the punishment ritual in The White Ribbon, tension and fear of death (or worse) has always been front and center in his films. In...
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