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Club Kid: John Hughes and “The Breakfast Club”
ELUSIVE from the prying minds of critics and cinephiles, the legacy of John Hughes lives on with little in the way of his personal opinions. For a man who wrote past the point of obsession, it is a bitter pill to swallow - but from what the late filmmaker gave...
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Perfect Pesci: The Best Performances
Joe motherflippin* Pesci, one of America’s greatest living actors, and the Baby Boomer's answer to James Cagney, has a strange and wonderful résumé, and he was born today in 1943. At the front of mind are his collaborations with Scorsese and De Niro or the int...
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Euro-Sleazy A: An Interview with Peter Strickland
The Duke of Burgundy, which has become a bit of a film-festival darling in the last several months, follows the ups and downs of a relationship between two women, Cynthia (Sidse Knudsen) and Evelyn (Chiara D’Anna), who practice sadomasochism in their sprawling...
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Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Posters of Michael Mann
It doesn’t take an in-depth analysis of his films to figure out which themes Michael Mann has devoted his whole career to. He keeps his film titles simple, precise, usually one or two words: Thief, Manhunter, Heat, Collateral. Most of his posters feature men p...
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“Selma”
Note. This review originally ran as part of our coverage of the AFI Fest.
Ava DuVernay’s Selma is a joyful, angry, and sad film-- occasionally all three in the same scene. It’s smart, soulful, and deeply affecting, boasting some truly powerhouse moments and...
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“Before I Disappear”
Writer-director Shawn Christensen’s 2012 Oscar-winning short Curfew was a striking miniature. The filmmaker starred as a drug-addled layabout whose latest suicide attempt was interrupted by a phone call from his estranged sister, pressing him into emergency ba...
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Blu-ray Review: “Parade”
(Part of The Complete Jacques Tati)
Distributor: The Criterion Collection
Release Date: October 28, 2014
MSRP: $124.95
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Film: B+ / Video: B / Audio: B+ / Extras: B+
After the surprising and clashing cynicism of Trafic, the good-natured ele...
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Blu-Ray Review: “Hercules”
Hercules has become, inexplicably, something of a forgotten film in the Disney Renaissance (along with the other 90s-era Blu-ray release from Disney this week, Tarzan). This take on Greek mythology performed decently in the summer of 1997, but aside from the e...
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