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NYFF ’15: ‘The Lobster’ locates emotional truth in absurdity
Colin Farrell, donning a rather “Joaquin Phoenix in Her” disposition and attire, sits on the couch, facing away from his presumed wife as she tells him the details of the man for whom she’s leaving, doesn’t say much. More
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BFI 59th London Film Festival – Top Picks for 2015
Next month sees the return of one of the UK’s most prolific film festival, The London Film Festival (LFF). Taking place between 7 and 18 October, the festival will show over 230 films in more than 16 venues over the capital. More
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New trailer for Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘Youth’ talks about the regrets that age brings
Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino is poised to return to theatres with a new film. Titled Youth, the film is Sorrentino’s first since 2013. As with his other films, Sorrentino takes on both directing and screenplay writing duties, working with a cast this time around that includes Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Jane Fonda, and […] More
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Michael Caine is in search of ‘Youth’ in first trailer from ‘The Great Beauty’ director’s follow-up
Nothing says youth like a film starring Michael Caine. The first trailer for Youth, or The Early Years, hit the web on Saturday. The film is director Paolo Sorrentino’s follow-up for the Oscar winning, The Great Beauty. It is his second English language film to this point. Sorrentino has amassed a large cast with Caine […] More
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Battlefield Surgery – Three Wounded War Movies
Much like what it portrays, with the war movie there is always a thin line between success and failure. There will always be those that fail to hit the target when victory was so surely within reach. Intention is undermined by incompetence. More
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Disney Blu-ray Roundup: ‘Oz the Great and Powerful,’ ‘The Emperor’s New Groove,’ ‘Atlantis: The Lost Empire,’ and ‘Lilo and Stitch’
How much are you willing to spend on a Blu-ray combo pack if you don’t get any special features? I’ve posed this question in so many words in past Disney Blu-ray Roundup columns, and it’s perhaps never felt more pressing than today, specific to three of their four new releases. (We’ll get to Oz the […] More
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 88: ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’
You’re…off to see the wizard! The powerful wizard of Oz! We hear he is a bit of a jerk, if ever a jerk there was! If ever, oh, ever a sleaze there was, the wizard of Oz is one because…because, because, because, because, because…because of the slimy old things he does! You’re off to see […] More
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‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ a sometimes charming, sometimes flat fantasy-adventure
Oz the Great and Powerful Directed by Sam Raimi Written by Mitchell Kapner and David Lindsay-Abaire USA, 2013 Oz the Great and Powerful is a film obsessed with façades. The characters, particularly the lead, rely on being able to control and define what is and isn’t real. Oscar Diggs, a would-be genius magician who accidentally […] More
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‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ overcomes flaws to become a fine entry in an old series
Oz the Great and Powerful Written by Mitchell Knapper and David Lindsay-Abaire Directed by Sam Raimi U.S.A., 2013 Here we go again. Another March, another major live action Disney film coming to theatres. More than that, it is another live action adventure which taps into very old, much beloved fantasy literature, directed by a major […] More
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More Equal Than Others: Six Films of 2012 Done Better
For better or worse, films don’t exist in a vacuum. If literature derives from itself, and, according to Marshall McLuhan, the content in any new medium is always the same as in the old, then films don’t exactly have a wealth of opportunities to be original. You can always compare a film to one that […] More
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Is ‘Liberal’ Hollywood to Blame for America’s Gun Culture?
On December 14, 2012, a young man named Adam Lanza broke into a primary school and fatally shot 26 people in the small village of Sandy Hook, Connecticut. Twenty of them were children, aged 6 or 7. On that day, no matter where I went or what I did, I couldn’t stop thinking about the […] More
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‘360’ is an overload of flatness from Meirelles and Morgan
360 Written by Peter Morgan Directed by Fernando Meirelles UK/Austria/France/Brazil, 2011 360’s writer Peter Morgan has declared that the film is directly inspired by Reigen, an 1897 play notably adapted to film by Max Ophüls as La ronde in 1950. The title of Morgan’s work, directed by Fernando Meirelles, derives from the 360 degrees of […] More
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