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30 April 2010
Es kommt der Tag [The Day Will Come] (2009)
MoMA’s annual Kino! film festival is a venue for modern German films to be seen and often receive their premieres in the U.S. This year, I got to see Es kommt der Tag, which is a film exploring karma and its personal and weighty effects on relationships among loved ones. The first twenty minutes side [...]
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1 April 2010
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Alice in Wonderland was pretty trashy, and so continues Tim Burton’s slide into creating things to look at but not much else. Sweeney Todd worked pretty well for me on the whole (apart from H.B.C.’s singing – it’s still ringing in my ears), but Alice in Wonderland returns to the spectacle without girders. Granted, I [...]
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12 January 2010
The Fantastic Mr. Fox (2008)
A couple of things strike me: I hadn’t updated my blog in half a year, and I have been working on Bartlett The Bear for over a year now. It started as a short story, but seems to have exploded underneath my feet. Bartlett comes to mind, of course, because of the adorable clay puppets [...]
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15 February 2009
Gran Torino (2008)
Cranky old racist man learns to love and respect the little ones next door? Eugene latched onto the Clint Eastwood perennial Dirty Harry performance, and much of the undeniably awkward performances/writing. “Oscar?! This??,” he kept asking, incredulously. It’s a pretty clunky movie, but I find Clint Eastwood’s movies to be interesting in a way that [...]