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December 2009

December 10, 2009

A Serious Man (Coen & Coen, 2009)

There is something about the existential angst of Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) that--I don't know--might...

December 06, 2009

Gigante (Biniez, 2009)

Biniez doesn’t mock Jara but instead lets us see the world through his eyes.

December 01, 2009

Blog Disclosure Policy Abbreviations

It is the policy of this blog that if the editor or reviewer has received from...

November 2009

November 21, 2009

The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Weitz, 2009)

Summit Entertainment heard their cries and has delivered a well-wrought, thoughtful version of New Moon...

November 15, 2009

Somers Town (Meadows, 2009)

OK, I admit it. I’m a sucker for the Coming-Of-Age film genre

November 03, 2009

Trumbo (Askin, 2007)

One strength of the film is that it relies heavily on the words of a...

November 01, 2009

Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954)

Although the movie is named for Sterling Hayden’s character, the story really revolves around saloon...

September 2009

September 29, 2009

The Dude Abides (Falsani, 2009)

I never did attend film school or seminary, or design my own college major combining...

September 21, 2009

TIFF 2009 Summary: Chalk

No pretentious film critic ever made himself look smarter than everyone else (or ahead of...

September 21, 2009

The Road (Hillcoat, 2009)

As a professional literature teacher, I always feel guilty about not getting behind the Cormac...

September 16, 2009

Leslie, My Name is Evil (Harkema, 2009)

Helter Skelter + Saved! + South Park with a dash of Rocky Horror Picture Show...

September 15, 2009

Agora (Amenábar, 2009)

Kenneth R. Morefield reviews Agora at 1More Film Blog.

September 13, 2009

Bright Star (Campion, 2009)

Jane Campion's Bright Star is a heartfelt, carefully drawn, masterpiece of a love story, It...

September 11, 2009

Vision (von Trotta, 2009)

Films that depict communal religious life with nuance and sympathy are rare, and those that...

September 10, 2009

An Education (Scherfig, 2009)

Day one of the Toronto International Film Festival got off to a spectacular start with...

September 07, 2009

To Be or Not To Be (Lubitsch, 1942)

The larger point, though, is that Hollywood has participated from the beginning in shaping our...

September 06, 2009

You’ve Come a (Long?) Way, Baby

Oh, we like to congratulate ourselves in the West (and America in particular) that women...

September 04, 2009

Screen Door Jesus (Davis, 2003)

Part Short Cuts, part Lone Star, part Saved!, with a pinch of Flannery O'Connor thrown...

August 2009

August 31, 2009

Equiano in Africa (Young, 2008)

It is an eleven minute short film with Equiano's text read over images of contemporary...

August 29, 2009

Lake of Fire (Kaye, 2006)

To call Lake of Fire uncompromisingly sober is to call a roundhouse kick to the...

August 23, 2009

Inglorious Basterds (Tarantino, 2009)

You should know the resulting film is one where the titular Basterds are not the...

August 16, 2009

Dis-Enchanted: Female Power and Authority in Ella Enchanted and Kill Bill:Volume 2

Originally delivered as an address to the Midwest Conference on Language, Literature and Media (MCLLM)...

August 14, 2009

Buffy The Vampire Slayer

The main reason I'm posting about the show, however, is that noted scholar and Buffy...

August 09, 2009

Julie & Julia (Ephron, 2009)

In fact, there may be the tiniest hint of feminine fantasy in the film's stew...

August 04, 2009

John Huston

Huston said of directing: "[...] I try to direct as little as possible. The more...

July 2009

July 26, 2009

Forgiving Dr. Mengele (Hercules, 2006)

The act of reviewing carries with it a strain of judgment, and when reviewing a...

July 26, 2009

Waltz With Bashir (Folman, 2008)

Several times while watching Waltz With Bashir I thought about the notion that by the...

July 24, 2009

The Informer (Ford, 1935)

In an interview republished in the anthology Interviews With Film Directors, Jean Mitry cites John...

July 22, 2009

Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925)

One problem, of course, with a great books (or great films) curriculum is that we...

July 18, 2009

Bigger Than Life (Ray, 1956)

The moment that caught my attention in Nicholas Ray's 1956 melodrama Bigger Than Life is...

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