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Four stories, each intense and tragic, all connected in some way to relate a singular ...
If you know even a little about the premise of Funny Games - you start ...
What do you expect of a child who has lost his father at the age ...
Mark Bradford is an admired artist from Los Angeles, California who earned his an MFA ...
The important question The Cove doesn’t answer, because the filmmakers can only venture to guess, ...

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Babel - Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Posted by Stephanie Lundahl On February - 7 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS

Four stories, each intense and tragic, all connected in some way to relate a singular narrative. Many films are told this way – director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu often constructs his films in this way – but few are as worthy of celebration as Babel. Taking its name from the Tower of Babel, which in the [...]

Funny Games - Michael Haneke

Posted by Pranav Dhingra On February - 3 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS

If you know even a little about the premise of Funny Games - you start dreading what you are going to witness from the first frame itself. This fact alone is a commentary on how violence, and the expectation of violence has seeped into our consciousness - almost to a point where we dread its [...]

The Cove - Louie Psihoyos

Posted by Daniel Montgomery On January - 22 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS

The important question The Cove doesn’t answer, because the filmmakers can only venture to guess, is why? The documentary showcases such a strange stubbornness on the part of the Japanese government, working in defense of a minority of unscrupulous fishermen, for the trade of goods that make only a small amount of money and poison [...]

Grand Illusion - Jean Renoir

Posted by Stephanie Lundahl On January - 10 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS

A film like Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion is difficult to approach so long after the fact as having been discussed and dissected for decades by film critics and scholars, it’s impossible to say anything new about it. Released in 1937, it was immediately embraced by the film community, becoming the first non-English film ever nominated [...]

(500) Days of Summer - Marc Webb

Posted by Daniel Montgomery On January - 6 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS

There comes a moment in some movies after which it can do no wrong. In (500) Days of Summer, it’s a split-screen sequence that contrasts romantic hero Tom Hansen’s (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) heightened expectations for a party with the disappointing reality. It’s whimsical in its construction, but so sad in its effect. Like the rest of [...]

In The Loop - Armando Iannucci

Posted by Stephanie Lundahl On December - 20 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS

Unrelentingly cynical and sharp as a razor blade, Armando Iannucci’s In The Loop comes at audiences with the intensity of a blow to the face. At this point in the decade, when just about every critical thing that can be said about the inner workings of governments – particularly governments preparing to enter into a [...]

Songs from the Second Floor - Roy Andersson

Posted by Jose Solís On December - 10 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS

“Al fin de la batalla,
y muerto el combatiente, vino hacia él un hombre
y le dijo: ‘No mueras, te amo tanto!’
Pero el cadáver ¡ay! siguió muriendo.”
“La Masa”, César Vallejo, 1937
A man enters a room while another man lies inside a tanning bed. They have an exchange about how their company is downsizing and the troubles it [...]

A Christmas Tale - Arnaud Desplechin

Posted by Stephanie Lundahl On December - 1 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS

The title of Arnaud Desplechin’s A Christmas Tale evokes a sentimental, fairytale-like feeling. It suggests a story in which all problems are brought to heel by spirit of the holiday, sweeping away conflict and renewing old bonds. Desplechin’s film does not play out this way, but is instead a deep and complex family drama (occasionally [...]

Food Inc - Robert Kenner

Posted by Daniel Montgomery On November - 24 - 2009 4 COMMENTS

Food Inc. is a movie you don’t want to see. See it anyway. I didn’t want to see it either. I’ve seen a lot of movies like it, and they don’t make me happy. They make me angry. But I keep seeing them, because I want to know what they have to tell me, and [...]

The New World - Terrence Malick

Posted by Stephanie Lundahl On November - 4 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS

Terrence Malick’s The New World is, essentially, a story of wonder. The opening moments play almost like a climax as the Native Americans nervously and excitedly watch the English ships pulling into the shore, and the English lay eyes for the first time on what will eventually become the settlement of Jamestown, Virginia. The film [...]

  • On The Canvas - Marc Chagall

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Police recovers Picasso’s Little Guitar

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The Roman police have recovered Picasso's Little Guitar, from a local businessman, CBC news reported. ...

Gold fresco by Richard Wright wins Turner Prize

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Glasgow-based artist Richard Wright, who created a gorgeous fresco in gold leaf, has won this ...

Nabokov’s unfinished novel reappears

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Vladimir Nabokov wanted it burned on his death, but The Original of Laura survived and ...

Paltrow joins Kidman’s transsexual film The Danish Girl

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Gwyneth Paltrow has signed on to The Danish Girl, a film chronicling the real-life story ...

Haitian-born Montrealer wins Blue Met writing prize

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Dany Laferrière, a Haitian-born Montrealer known for his provocative and thoughtful novels, has won the ...

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