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Netflix Weekend 8/29: “Let Go Your Earthly Tether”
This week, I’ll be highlighting three films about lovers in existential crises, or as I like to say struggling to “let go your earthly tether”. Just bear with me, ok? This one’s a little more inspired than usual. Our three films are Abbas Kiarostami’s Certifie...
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For Your Reconsideration: ‘To the Wonder’
Reaching out is both the quintessential gesture and the central image of Terrence Malick’s films – his latest one being no exception. To the Wonder offers numerous shots of extended hands brushing against objects as different as rock, grass and a lover’s skin....
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A Communion With the Self In ‘To the Wonder’
The following isn’t a review. Instead, it’s a collection of thoughts, impressions, and emotions I wanted to jot down before they disappeared into the ether. Mild spoilers, if you can call them that.
Given the disappointed reviews for Terrence Malick’s lates...
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Terrence Malick Takes Us On A Journey To the Wonder
There's a line in Terrence Malick's latest film To the Wonder in which Olga Kurylenko's Marina finds herself at the precipice of despair and says "My god... what a cruel war. I find two women inside me. One full of love for you... the other pulls me down towar...
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Hainline’s 50 Most Anticipated Films of 2013
If you're like me, you have insane enthusiasm the mainstream and the independent. The monsters within and the literal monsters. The artsy and the fartsy. I've ranked the fifty films I'm most looking forward to this year, provided one line descriptions, and lis...
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