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Jay Berg's CINEMA DIARY: "Juno" * 1/2
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Jay Berg's CINEMA DIARY. Feel free to share your comments. Enjoy! I sincerely wanted to love this movie-I mean, as of this writing, it had gotten 19 out of 20 positive Rotten Tomatoes (RT) reviews. A writer to Roger Ebert's answer man column even mentioned that it received a long standing ovation at the end at the Toronto Film Festival screening. So, the only negative review. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Film Festival Today posts my 2016 AFI Docs coverage and top 5 reviews. 2011 SILVERDOCS Documen...
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Jay Berg's CINEMA DIARY: March 2015
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Jay Berg's CINEMA DIARY. Feel free to share your comments. Enjoy! Friday February 27, 2015. THE SHOW (* 1/2). In my preshow commentary. Did anyone really care? The producers need to hire writers and a host with more of an edge. Jimmy Kimmel or, now that he might have more time on his hands, Jon Stewart come to mind. Was a box office hit. Or was it partly due to Harris as the host? The answer to that one will have to wait until next year. Travolta finally getting Idina Menzel's name right in one of the be...
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Jay Berg's CINEMA DIARY: February 2015
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Jay Berg's CINEMA DIARY. Feel free to share your comments. Enjoy! 2015 PRE-AA RAMBLING THOUGHTS/PREDICTIONS. Friday February 20, 2015. Stay tuned . . . Here's my take on what I consider the two biggest nominating snubs of the year:. Wasn't nominated for Best Picture is beyond me. But not being nominated for Best Animated Feature is beyond absurd! 2) The brouhaha over the lack of African-American nominees in general and. However, his chances of finally walking away with the statuette are slim and none....
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Jay Berg's CINEMA DIARY: 2014 AFI Docs
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Jay Berg's CINEMA DIARY. Feel free to share your comments. Enjoy! Word Play, If You Build It). Finally, the Annual Guggenheim Award went to Alex Gibney, whose searing documentary indicting the Bush Administration,. Taxi to the Dark Side. Deservedly won an Academy Award in 2007. Director of equally superlative films such as 2002's. The Trials of Henry Kissinger. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Which was nominated for an AA), 2008's. Onzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson. 1) Art and Craft.
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Jay Berg's CINEMA DIARY: "TIMBUKTU" - ***1/2 (97 minutes)
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Jay Berg's CINEMA DIARY. Feel free to share your comments. Enjoy! TIMBUKTU" - * *1/2 (97 minutes). February 7, 2015. Interspersed with this drama are scenes of various defiant confrontations between the new fundamentalist rulers and the townspeople trying desperately to maintain their customs, dignity and self-respect. Sissako necessarily includes images of punishment but, thankfully, tones down the outrageous violence which, in the final analysis, is more effective without being sensationalistic. Film F...
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Jay Berg's CINEMA DIARY: THE SKELETON TWINS - *** (93 minutes)
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Jay Berg's CINEMA DIARY. Feel free to share your comments. Enjoy! THE SKELETON TWINS - * * (93 minutes). Sunday September 21, 2014. Nobody does dysfunction better than independent films-something I learned after attending Sundance for seven years where it seemed three of every four narratives I screened were dedicated to the subject (Two of my favorites were 2003's. And 2006's highly successful AA nominee. The Skeleton Twins,. Which is more serious than comedic,. September 26, 2014 at 12:08 AM. Film Fest...
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Jay Berg's CINEMA DIARY: October 2014
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Jay Berg's CINEMA DIARY. Feel free to share your comments. Enjoy! ST VINCENT - * (103 minutes). Tuesday October 2, 2014. Lord, we've seen this plot before: curmudgeon (Bill Murray) meets sweet innocent little boy (Jaeden Lieberher) who attempts to transform curmudgeon into a likable human being. Jack Nicholson is the staple of this franchise. (At the premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Bill Murray was asked how he got the role and replied it was because Jack was unavailable.). Bridesmaids, The Heat,.
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Jay Berg's CINEMA DIARY: November 2014
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Jay Berg's CINEMA DIARY. Feel free to share your comments. Enjoy! BIRDMAN or (The Unexpected Virture of Ignorance) - * * (119 minutes). Tuesday October 28, 2014. Acclaimed Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu. Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel, Biutiful). The theater, Hollywood, insecurity, the search for fame and celebrity, narcissism, social media: these are just a few of the topics granted equal reference and ridicule. Not to mention the myriad of inside jokes that repeated viewings are a mus...
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Jay Berg's CINEMA DIARY: ST. VINCENT - ** (103 minutes)
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Jay Berg's CINEMA DIARY. Feel free to share your comments. Enjoy! ST VINCENT - * (103 minutes). Tuesday October 2, 2014. Lord, we've seen this plot before: curmudgeon (Bill Murray) meets sweet innocent little boy (Jaeden Lieberher) who attempts to transform curmudgeon into a likable human being. Jack Nicholson is the staple of this franchise. (At the premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Bill Murray was asked how he got the role and replied it was because Jack was unavailable.). Bridesmaids, The Heat,.
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Jay Berg's CINEMA DIARY: Complete coverage of The 13th Maryland Film Festival
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Jay Berg's CINEMA DIARY. Feel free to share your comments. Enjoy! Complete coverage of The 13th Maryland Film Festival. 1) “Viva Riva”. 2) “Better This World”. 3) ”Meek’s Cutoff”. 4) “Terri”. 5) ”Sing Your Song”. Thursday May 5, 2011. The after party in the lobby of The Brown Center. Pioneer" (* *-15 minutes)-. Director David Lowery uses ingenious sound design (as Ann pointed out in her introduction) and spot-on acting by a first-time 4 year old toddler to tell a story of a father who tries to comfort hi...
