February 2012
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It's really sad watching Jonah Hill get fat again.
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The Child.
2006, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Continuing their exploration into the human condition, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s fourth feature, The Child, brings us into the world of Bruno (Jeremie Renier) and Sonia (Deborah Francois) a young couple who have just had their first child. When we are introduced to the couple, it is after Sonia has gotten out of the hospital and she returns home...
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rantcasey asked: Why In Darkness over A Separation?
Final Oscar Predictions.
Best Picture: The Artist Best Director: Michel Hazanavicus, The Artist Best Actor: Jean Dujardin, The Artist Best Actress: Viola Davis, The Help Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, Beginners Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, The Help Best Original Screenplay: Midnight In Paris Best Adapted Screenplay: The Descendants Best Animated Film: Rango Best Foreign Language Film: In Darkness...
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The Son.
2003, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are masters of authenticity, and their film The Son is no exception. A character study about a carpentry instructor at a rehab center who becomes obsessed with a teen student, this is an engrossing tale of human interaction. The brothers, as always it seems, approach their characters with a level of intimacy and...
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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.
2008, Cristian Mungiu
Cristian Mungiu’s wrenching 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is a powerful story of a woman (Anamaria Marinca) in 1980s Romania who helps her friend (Laura Vasiliu) obtain a black market abortion. It’s a premise ripe for dramatics, but the power of it comes from how understated Mungiu plays the whole thing. There isn’t an ounce of melodrama or...
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Cul-De-Sac.
1966, Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski’s third feature Cul-De-Sac is a more comedic take on an age-old premise: a couple (Donald Pleasance and Francoise Dorleac) are put upon by a criminal on the run (Lionel Stander) and the film becomes a power game of their interactions. It doesn’t have much in the way of narrative, but instead builds itself around the ups and downs of their...
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Anonymous asked: Did you ever genuinely enjoy Glee? And who do you think is the best actor on that show?
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I was trying to take a poop and Rosie was outside of the bathroom barking up a storm, so I yelled at her very aggressively to be quiet. I finished my situation and came out of the bathroom to find that the maintenance guy for the apartment building had come in and was painting the ceiling.
My life is awkward.
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The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.
1965, Martin Ritt
A British espionage thriller in the Cold War, shot in black and white and adapted from a John le Carre novel, sounds absolutely tailor-made for me. Martin Ritt’s The Spy Who Came In From The Cold held up strong to my lofty expectations and gave me a cold, brooding character study of epic proportions. Coming right at the beginning of the James Bond phenomena (Dr. No...
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Woody Allen's "Nero Fiddled" gets a June 22nd... →
It was earlier this week that we posited that Woody Allen’s next effort “Nero Fiddled” would skip Cannes and make a splashy premiere at the Venice Film Festival, which seemed like a good wager considering it’s an Italy set film. But it seems the film might forgo the red carpet altogether, and just head straight into theaters.
Box Office Mojo has tweeted that...
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Z.
1969, Costa-Gavras
Costa-Gavras’s 1969 film Z, written by Jorge Semprun off a novel from Vasilis Vasilikos, is two important things. First, it’s a scathing indictment of government inadequacy and police corruption, based on real events but socially relevant still in our current culture. Second, it’s the evolution of the political thriller, a genre that has long been one...
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The Lady Eve.
1941, Preston Sturges
They certainly don’t make them like this anymore. The Lady Eve is a charming little romantic comedy starring two major stars, in the form of Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda, who run through a wild gambit of cons, false identities and broken hearts in their tumultuous relationship. The whole thing is very light and certainly shouldn’t be considered anything...
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Belle De Jour.
1968, Luis Buñuel
A hypnotic blend of fantasy and reality, Belle De Jour is the first film I’ve seen from Luis Buñuel and it certainly won’t be the last. The opening scene is a memorable one, as Severine and Pierre Serizy (Catherine Deneuve and Jean Sorel) ride in a carriage through the woods, before he drags her out, ties her to a tree and has the drivers whip and rape her....
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