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All posts by Jake Cole
This Week on MUBI: “The Gleaners & I”
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This Week on MUBI: “Hard to be a God”
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This Week on Mubi: “L for Leisure”
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“The Big Short” Winds Up Being Vaguely Condescending
The fundamental argument of Adam McKay’s The Big Short, adapted from Michael Lewis’s overview of the housing collapse of the late 2000s, is that the basic truths of the economic collapse are easy to understand but are made difficult by the architects of that c...
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“Macbeth” Is Closer to Bro-etry Than Poetry
For a minor auteurist work, Roman Polanski’s adaptation of Macbeth may be one of the most influential films of the last 45 years. Polanski’s brutal vision brought Shakespeare’s grisly play back to its roots, retaining the prose but dispensing with the trite so...
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This Week on MUBI: “Street of Crocodiles”
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This Week on MUBI: “The Headless Woman”
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This Week on MUBI: “Let The Right One In”
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DVD Review: “Wind Across the Everglades”
Wind Across the Everglades opens with a train of progress barreling toward the southeastern tip of the United States, to the blossoming city of Miami. Yet the blend of hissing steam engines and screaming birds on the soundtrack announces, along with the narrat...
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“In Jackson Heights” Is Galvanizing and Unsettling
The opening rooftop shot of In Jackson Heights gazes down at a street block that contains several intersections within a short distance. It’s as much an indication of the New York community’s overlapping cultures as the subsequent montage of life in the area, ...
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