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November 2010

November 24, 2010

Tangled (Greno & Howard, 2010)

Home runs hit with two strikes count the same as home runs that leave the...

November 19, 2010

Cool It (Timoner, 2010)

Funny thing, though, once the film exonerates Lomborg from the mutually exclusive charges that he...

November 08, 2010

Directors: Life Behind the Camera (2010)

Want to know how Robert Altman got started in making films? What does Cameron Crowe...

November 04, 2010

The King’s Speech (Hooper, 2010)

Fresh on the heels of winning the Cadillac People's Choice Award at the Toronto International...

October 2010

October 08, 2010

Stone (Curran, 2010)

Director John Curran made two perhaps inadvertently telling comments to the Toronto Film Festival audience...

October 06, 2010

Marwencol (Malmberg, 2010)

Marwencol is a fascinating blend of two different genres, the artist documentary and the therapy...

October 01, 2010

The Social Network (Fincher, 2010)

Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher are not two creators I would have instinctively paired, but...

September 2010

September 20, 2010

The Work of Director Jonathan Glazer

If anyone out there is writing a history of film making over the last 30...

September 17, 2010

Easy A (Gluck, 2010)

Smart, funny, and unexpectedly sweet, Will Gluck's Easy A is the most pleasant surprise of...

September 16, 2010

Anything You Want (Mañas, 2010)

Botto plays Leo, a Spanish lawyer with a wife, child, and healthy masculine disgust at...

September 15, 2010

Tamara Drewe (Frears, 2010)

Stephen Frears's Tamara Drewe is essentially a Restoration sex comedy set in the English countryside.

September 14, 2010

The Illusionist (Chomet, 2010)

So The Illusionist himself could be seen as a symbol of the traditional animator seeing...

September 13, 2010

Never Let Me Go (Romanek, 2010)

I will cop to saying that Ishiguro is on my short list of greatest living...

September 10, 2010

Inside Job (Ferguson, 2010)

A repeated hypothesis of Ferguson and his team was that such chutzpah comes from sustained...

September 07, 2010

Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho (Rebello, 1990)

Perhaps it is anathema for me to say, being an academic, but there is something...

August 2010

August 27, 2010

Takers (Luessenhop, 2010)

If it invites but doesn't quite earn comparisons to Michael Mann's Heat, well, at least...

August 20, 2010

The Switch (Gordon & Speck, 2010)

While I am on the subject of The Switch not really being a romantic comedy...

August 13, 2010

Eat Pray Love (Murphy, 2010)

I was able to accept this not as a blueprint for how to live my...

August 09, 2010

The Disappearance of Alice Creed (Blakeson, 2009)

The Disappearance of Alice Creed has all the ingredients of a horror-porn exploitation film, but...

August 06, 2010

The Other Guys (McKay, 2010)

Here's the most important thing you need to know about The Other Guys: it is...

August 02, 2010

The Kids Are All Right (Cholodenko, 2010)

It's just a small, loving gesture.

July 2010

July 23, 2010

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Oplev, 2009)

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is a brutal film. That in and of itself...

July 15, 2010

Predators (Antal, 2010)

Looking for, or discussing, plot holes is a fool's errand that only serves to make...

July 14, 2010

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Simoneau, 2007)

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was one of the books of my young adolescence:...

July 03, 2010

1More Podcast–Episode 5

Kenneth R. Morefield and Peter Waldron podcast about Pixar films.

June 2010

June 08, 2010

Eyes Wide Open (Tabakman, 2009)

The film also invites comparison to Sandi Simcha Dubowski's Trembling Before G-d, a documentary chronicling...

May 2010

May 27, 2010

Robin Hood (Scott, 2010)

My dominant impression, walking out of Ridley Scott's Gladiator Tw...er Robin Hood, was that it...

May 24, 2010

Regretters (Lindeen, 2010)

Regretters is a about two men, Mikael and Orlando, who both made one of the...

May 17, 2010

1More Podcast–Episode 4

Kenneth R. Morefield hosts a podcast about the documentary Herb & Dorothy.

May 03, 2010

1More Podcast — Episode 3

Kenneth R. Morefield and Katherine Richards podcast from the 2010 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.