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DVD & Blu-ray · Experimental & Underground · Reviews

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Close to Home: The Films of Su Friedrich on DVD

  • August 1, 2007

Autobiography sometimes trumps art in these uneven works Su Friedrich is a disciplined and highly skilled filmmaker who teaches school (film and video production at Princeton, to be precise) and[…]

Asian · Reviews

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Butterfly Dream: Tsai Ming-liang’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone

  • August 1, 2007

“There’s no overt sexuality to Rawang’s care for Hsiao Kang. It’s a tender act of love, a selfless giving of himself to another.” With I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone[…]

Directors · Interviews

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Silent Light or Absolute Miracle: An Interview with Carlos Reygadas at Cannes 2007

  • August 1, 2007

“I hate the idea that film is actually telling a story!” A striking division in the Cannes film festival this year: between films that offer dark, bleak (read: despairing, nihilistic)[…]

Reviews

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Rat’s Eye for the Straight Guy: Disney/Pixar’s Ratatouille

  • August 1, 2007

Eat first, talk later? If only! Yep, those fairies at the Magic Kingdom are at it again. They’re tryin’ to talk all us straight-thinkin’ folks from Middle America into respecting[…]

Festivals & Awards

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Closing the Closet: QDoc: The 2007 Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival

  • August 1, 2007

“We couldn’t figure out how to divide the cat . . .” Queer documentaries have had a special place in homo history at least since 1978’s Word Is Out, the pioneering showcase[…]

LGBT & Queer

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Glancing, Cruising, Staring: Queer Ways of Looking

  • August 1, 2007

Ecce homo I looked at him closely and more quickly (one can, without taking one’s eyes off an object, look very quickly. At that moment my “gaze” swooped down on[…]

Directors · Exploitation & Erotica

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Before The Green Door: The Mitchell Brothers, the Counterculture, and Hard-core’s Beginnings

  • August 1, 2007

It came from San Francisco This is the first of a two-part article exploring how hard-core porn evolved through the efforts of Jim and Artie Mitchell and other pioneers, with[…]

DVD & Blu-ray · Music & Musicals · Reviews

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Space Here We Come: P. J. Harvey’s Please Leave Quietly Redefines the Concert Film DVD

  • August 1, 2007

“It flashes before our eyes, and we are not even sure what we have witnessed.” There is an incongruous moment in Please Leave Quietly (2006), the long-awaited concert DVD from[…]

Reviews

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The Panther and the Mouse: A Love Story

  • August 1, 2007

“Like the implicit struggle between Salome and Herod, it becomes unclear as to who serves whom.” The Night Porter is an explicit film full of implicators, implications and implicitness. Director[…]

New Media · Visual Artists

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The Valorized Artist: Incorporation into the “Perpetual Art Machine” [PAM]

  • August 1, 2007

Art for [PAM]’s sake The “Perpetual Art machine” [PAM] is a new media project begun in 2005 that presents the work of a large number of video artists as pieces[…]

Reviews

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An Infarction to Die For: Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Thirteen

  • August 1, 2007

Can a film with George Clooney, Matt Damon, and Brad Pitt be all bad? Yes. Future generations will study Steven Soderbergh’s latest, Ocean’s Thirteen. Not future film scholars, of course,[…]

Documentaries · Reviews

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Stay Well, or Else . . . Michael Moore’s Sicko

  • August 1, 2007

“What these Americans have could happen to us. And this is frightening.” Michael Moore’s Sicko begins with clips of what happens to Americans who don’t have health insurance. A man[…]

Directors

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Constructive Empathy: Speaking About Magnus, Cannes 2007

  • August 1, 2007

“People can die without love.” The boy is unloved. Magnus has the dead expression of depression as he walks around his Estonian town, stopping in on his selfish vulgar mother,[…]

Reviews

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Blow the Man Down: Aki Kaurismaki’s Lights in the Dusk

  • August 1, 2007

“The grafting on of the film’s film noir plot has a reductionist minimalism to it, as if Kaurismaki were sketching an archetype . . .” Aki Kaurismaki offers Lights in the Dusk[…]

Actors & Personalities

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Auspicious Beginnings: Nicholson’s Leitmotif in Five Easy Pieces

  • August 1, 2007

“His characters have tended to be more bewildered by life and disgusted by a world that won’t cooperate.” As Jack Nicholson turns 70 (April 2007), he embodies more than ever[…]

Reviews

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Mo’ Money, Mo’ Money, Mo’ Money! J. K. Rowling Just Got Richer

  • August 1, 2007

Harry the Fifth comes in third OK, the latest Harry Potter — Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, to give the full name — isn’t a bad flick[…]

Writers & Critics

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Notes on a Scandal: On Film Criticism and Its Teachers

  • August 1, 2007

Will the twain ever meet? Why isn’t film criticism taught by film critics in British universities? Or to put it another way; why have we never heard of those who[…]

TV & Streaming

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What the Previews Tell Me

  • July 30, 2007

Since cutting off my cable I’ve managed to avoid 99% of the crap advertising I used to be subject to. Now I just have to soak up the subliminal messages[…]

Reviews

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The Peak of American Cinema? Leo McCarey’s Duck Soup (1933)

  • July 30, 2007

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P9_0JEje8k] I’ve been thinking a lot about director Leo McCarey lately and, in particular, how so many of his movies , from the 1928 Laurel and Hardy short Two Tars[…]

Animation · Reviews

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The Simpsons Movie: from D’oh to Dough! Helping white men get richer for 18 years!

  • July 28, 2007

Yes, Matt Groening and James L. Brooks are rich, rich white men, and thanks to The Simpsons Movie, they’re going to be even richer. Much as I would like to[…]

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