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To Half and Half Not: The Films to Remember from 2010 – 2014
The end of the year is, undoubtedly, a time of reflection: what we’ve experienced, what we’ve learned, how many resolutions we broke and what we’re going to do to rectify that, etc. It is also the time of lists. Lists, lists, lists. The internet in mid to late...
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Days of Future Past: Looking Back at Shane Carruth’s “Primer” After 10 Years
When Primer was released in 2004, Shane Carruth—the film’s writer, director, producer, composer, editor, and one of its two main actors—was barely past 30, and he’d spent a couple of years assembling the film on his laptop for a final production cost of about ...
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Top 10 Science Fiction Films of This World
Science fiction, that genre so perfectly suited to speculate on the future, re-imagine the past, and conjure entire worlds that seem impossible by any logical standard, is sometimes at its most compelling by casting new light on the present, the precise time a...
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Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color is Uniquely Transcendent
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There have been some very good and even great films released so far this year, but Upstream Color may just be the first "must-see" movie of 2013. No matter what anyone's interpretation of the film is going to be--and there will most certainly be more than...
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Los Angeles Top 5 (2/15/13- 2/21/13)
LA is the greatest place on earth to watch movies. Here are this week's best picks.
1. Like Someone in Love at the Laemmle Royal (STARTS FRIDAY 2/15, RUNS ALL WEEK)
Abbas Kiarostami, director of Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, Ten, and Certi...
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Sundance Day Six: David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche, The East, and the Polarizing Upstream Color
Prince Avalanche (dir. David Gordon Green)
(Grade: C) -- David Gordon Green’s return to independent cinema, after a string of achingly awful films (Pineapple Express, Your Highness,and The Sitter), may very well be the definition of mediocrity.
Languis...
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