Showing posts with label capsule reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label capsule reviews. Show all posts
Thursday, August 18, 2022

Capsule Reviews: Wavelength, Begone Dull Care, Bezhin Meadow

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Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967) Michael Snow' legendary 45-minute structuralist work feels about three times its length, a slow zo...
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Capsule Reviews: The Smiling Lieutenant, Ménilmontant, The Miracle Woman

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The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch, 1931) A delightfully wicked musical that puts the Lubitsch touch on full display, The Smiling Lieute...
Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Capsule Reviews: Cronos, Smiles of a Summer Night,

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Cronos (Guillermo Del Toro, 1993) Admittedly more of a primer for Guillermo Del Toro's career to come than a great work in its own right...
Sunday, July 17, 2011

Jane Campion's Short Films: Peel, Passionless Moments, A Girl's Own Story

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An Exercise in Discipline: Peel   An Exercise in Discipline: Peel opens Jane Campion's career with a bang. It starts with an echoing ta...

Capsule Reviews: Moulin Rouge!, A Corner in Wheat, 31/75 Aysl

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Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001) A pop culture kaleidosope-cum-travesty, Moulin Rouge! is as unbearable as it is enthralling, always at o...
Friday, July 15, 2011

Capsule Reviews: In the Heat of the Night, Something Wild, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

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In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison, 1967) I put off watching this film for years because it struck me as Hollywood moralizing that wou...
Monday, July 11, 2011

Capsule Reviews: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Cœur Fidèle, On the Waterfront

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920) Set in a hilly village more twisted with jagged, crowded shacks than a Brazilian favela, Th...
Friday, July 8, 2011

Keaton Shorts: One Week, The Boat, The Paleface, Cops

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"It was Keaton's notion that cutting, valuable as it was in a thousand ways, must not replace the recording function of the camera...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Capsule Reviews: All About Eve, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Mary and Max

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All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950) Probably the most glaring omission in my movie viewing. And boy was I missing out: this camp sat...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Capsule Reviews: Alice in Wonderland (1951), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

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Alice in Wonderland The animated Alice in Wonderland does not represent Disney's storytelling peak. Even for a movie that takes two sur...