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All posts by Ty Landis
Blu-ray Review: “My Own Private Idaho”
To watch My Own Private Idaho (1991) is to bask in the freedom and horror of the open road and its unpredictable rhythms and patterns. Molded by an imperfect, rough conceit, writer-director Gus Van Sant’s third directorial effort stands as an obvious precursor...
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Chaos and Conviction: “King of New York” At 25
Released in the same year as Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas and Joel and Ethan Coen’s Miller’s Crossing, Abel Ferrara’s King of New York has shamefully slipped through the cracks when it comes to charting and discussing great early-1990s crime films. While compa...
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The Criterion Collection “The River”
Distributor: The Criterion Collection
Release Date: April 21, 2015
MSRP: $39.99
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Movie: B+/ Video: A/ Audio: A-/ Extras: A-
The iconography most commonly associated with Jean Renoir’s The River (1951) can be linked, in most cases, not only to ...
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“Breathe In”: Tepid Romance From Drake Doremus
Director Drake Doremus showed early signs of promise with Like Crazy, the 2011 Sundance Grand Jury prize winner that offered glimpses of a new age no-holds barred love story, but ended up registering as a dopey romance that failed to burrow deep into its chara...
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“Almost Human” Is Entirely Devoid Of Genre Delights
Few filmmakers seem capable of rising above the sad state of affairs that is modern indie horror, the rest seem caught up in a boundless mode of non-creativity and excessive aping that’s neither welcome nor admirable. Joe Begos’ Almost Human is the latest in t...
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“Jimmy P.” Is A Frustrating Misfire
It’s been six years since Arnaud Desplechin’s widely hailed 2008 holiday melodrama A Christmas Tale, a film that was as rich, inviting and maddening as it was overstuffed and energetic. His latest, Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian), which premiered a...
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“Drift” Is A Cold And Empty Venture
Details are left intentionally scarce in Benny Vandendriessche’s Drift, a wintry existential drama that follows an unnamed Belgian man’s own personal erosion and decay following personal tragedy. As an offering of “slow cinema,” Vandendriessche is no Nuri Bil...
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‘The Wait’ Wallows In Self-Seriousness
Imbued with an overwhelming sense of self-importance and art-house allure, M.Blash’s The Wait is a pointless, towering cheat of a film. Keeping the viewer at arm’s length throughout, this stone-faced mediation on life, death, and the surreal registers as nothi...
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Warner Archive Instant Picks (11/08/13—11/14/13)
This week, check out John Ford's WAGON MASTER and Robert Altman's MCCABE & MRS. MILLER on Warner Archive.
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Warner Archive Instant Picks (11/01/13—11/07/13)
Two great film to check out on Warner Archive Instant: Antonioni's 'Blow-Up' and Roeg's 'They Live By Night.'
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