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Flicker Fan: Sita Sings the Blues (2008)
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Friday, April 30, 2010. Sita Sings the Blues (2008). Dir and writ. Nina Paley. Writ Valmiki (book - Ramayana). Feat vocals of Annette Henshaw. Despite these shortcomings, the movie's fluidity exhibits a powerful charm that quickly restores engagement after letting the grip slide in the lesser moments, holding on and coercing a silly grin. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sita Sings the Blues (2008). The Last Picture Show (1971). La Chienne (The Bitch) (1931). A Couple Things I Forgot to Mention.
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Flicker Fan: February 2010
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Friday, February 26, 2010. Writ and dir. Lars von Trier. Feat Nicole Kidman, Harriet Andersson, Lauren Bacall, Jean-Marc Barr, Paul Bettany, Blair Brown, James Caan, Patricia Clarkson, Jeremy Davies, Ben Gazzara, Philip Baker Hall, Thom Hoffman, Siobhan Fallon, John Hurt. Not all movies earn a long running time, frequently growing bloated and redundant, a sure sign of directors in love with their own words and images (see Inglorious Basterds. All of this leads to a finale both unpredictable and deeply sa...
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Flicker Fan: Le testament du Docteur Cordelier (The Doctor's Horrible Experiment) (1959)
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Friday, May 7, 2010. Le testament du Docteur Cordelier (The Doctor's Horrible Experiment) (1959). Writ Jean Renoir, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde feat. Jean-Louis Barrault, Teddy Bilis,. Sylviane Margollé, Jean Topart, Michel Vitold. Saddled by the viewer's prescience of what should be the stunning final reveal, the better set pieces. Are defused, their thunder stolen, the ominous edge of the picture drained of its potentially ghoulish impact.
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Flicker Fan: The Last Picture Show (1971)
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Friday, April 30, 2010. The Last Picture Show (1971). Writ Larry McMurtry (novel), Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich. Feat Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn, Eileen Brennan, Clu Gulager, Sam Bottoms. Peter Bogdanovich takes the existential Western through Antonioni territory in his chronicle of a post WWII dying Texas town. Dust blasts through the streets of Anarene as though the. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sita Sings the Blues (2008).
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Flicker Fan: December 2009
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009. A Night at the Opera (1935). Writ James Kevin McGuinnes (story), George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind (screenplay). Feat Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Walter Woolf King, Sig Ruman, Margaret Dumont. What praise hasn't been written about the Marx brothers? Wednesday, December 2, 2009. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009). Writ Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach (screenplay), Roald Dahl (book). But here, in an animated adaptation of a not-so-popular children...
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Flicker Fan: 35 rhums (35 Shots of Rum) (2008)
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Monday, July 12, 2010. 35 rhums (35 Shots of Rum) (2008). Writ Claire Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau. Feat Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Nicole Dog, G. Diop) live quiet, busy lives, a father and daughter who have carved out a shared existence of love and support in the absence of other family. But hints of change and rebellion are in the air, and a man lurks outside the door of their apartment, a suitor with the filmmaker's suggestion of a home invader. Hine's stumbling progress with. Noé makes his move on.
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Flicker Fan: April 2010
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Friday, April 30, 2010. Sita Sings the Blues (2008). Dir and writ. Nina Paley. Writ Valmiki (book - Ramayana). Feat vocals of Annette Henshaw. Despite these shortcomings, the movie's fluidity exhibits a powerful charm that quickly restores engagement after letting the grip slide in the lesser moments, holding on and coercing a silly grin. The Last Picture Show (1971). Writ Larry McMurtry (novel), Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich. Blow clear off the map. Teen mute, Billy (Sam Bottoms), persistentl...
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Flicker Fan: November 2009
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009. Big Deal on Madonna Street (I soliti igno) (1958). Writ Angenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Suso Cecchi d'Amico and Mario Monacelli (screenplay),. Angenore Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli. Feat Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Memmo Carotenuto, Rossanna Rory, Carla Gravina, Claudia Cardinale, Carlo Pisacane, Tiberio Murgia, Marcello Mastroianni, Toto. This loose-limbed send up of Rififi. The taut procedural style of its target for. The Age of Innocence (1993). The film bounces...
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Flicker Fan: May 2010
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Friday, May 7, 2010. Le testament du Docteur Cordelier (The Doctor's Horrible Experiment) (1959). Writ Jean Renoir, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde feat. Jean-Louis Barrault, Teddy Bilis,. Sylviane Margollé, Jean Topart, Michel Vitold. Saddled by the viewer's prescience of what should be the stunning final reveal, the better set pieces. Are defused, their thunder stolen, the ominous edge of the picture drained of its potentially ghoulish impact.