ISSN 1717-9559
Film Reviews
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Dario Argento lives up to his often noted and inappropriate monicker, The Italian Hitchcock.
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Revisiting a classic of Quebec cinema, La Petite Aurore, L’enfant Martyre.
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Woody Allen, Melinda and Melinda, Eros, Wong Kar-wai, Michelangelo Antonioni, Crash
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Geopolitics meet sexual politics in Walk on Water
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A look back at one of Makhmalbaf's most important mid-career political films, Marriage of the Blessed.
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A look back at some Iranian shorts and a feature documentary which have an element of reflexivity which is common to most Iranian cinema.
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Each of us is human and has value, but we are not equally valuable—our resources (knowledge, skills, talents, and monies), and relationships to others, determine the extent of our value. Sometimes we feel inferior because we are. The work of people such as Plato and Shakespeare is not important because they are Greek or English but because of how they illuminate the human condition, an illumination not limited by language, national borders, or time.
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An analysis of the film's engagement with philosophical discourse in a comedic mode.
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There are works that are less important for what they are than for what they inspire us to think about, and one such work is Rodney Evans’s “Brother to Brother”
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Films come and come; and do so quickly enough that it’s hard to know if any of them are of much importance—before a decent, public conversation can occur, they’re gone. Films reviewed include: Hero, We Don’t Live Here Anymore, Vanity Fair, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Motorcycle Diaries, Kilometer Zero, Stage Beauty, Kinsey, Alexander.
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Recent films of New York filmmaker Bill Morrison have been concerned with the particular struggle between film and its material medium. There is a conflict between the image and matter which ruins the narrative of the original, twisted by the gnawing power of time, but which at the same time produces a paradoxical tale of ruins, born out of this double resistance of the filmic image and its material.
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