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Oeuvre: Spike Lee: Summer of Sam
Millennium fever is all over the films of 1999. In a year with Y2K fears, we had films where the computers had literally taken over, where destroying entire metropolitan buildings had a profound effect
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Safety Not Guaranteed
Inspiration can come from anything, so I can’t be too quick to judge when a movie is “based on” a board game, theme park ride or website. Especially when now we’re living in an
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American Animal
In college, my experience with the school’s student film club involved watching a lot of peers’ shorts that took place in their apartments, not to mention inflicting my own work on my peers in
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Footnote
Joseph Cedar’s Footnote explores a relationship between father and son, which seems, at first, worrying. While I know stuff like The Godfather and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade exist, hearing that a film
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Oeuvre: Spike Lee: Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
Many filmmakers begin their careers with student films or college theses, and while for many people “student film” is lazy critical shorthand for “amateurish,” let us remember that Killer of Sheep is technically a
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John Carter
Flash Gordon is one of my favorite movies. If you’re going to adapt a comic strip or pulp story or any lurid bit of pop, you should go balls deep into your property and
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In Darkness
As insensitive as this is going to sound, the very existence of a film like In Darkness elicits an important artistic question: do we need another film about the Holocaust? Obviously I don’t want
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The Secret World of Arrietty
You probably already know this, but Studio Ghibli is basically the Pixar of Japan, and not just because Pixar takes a lot of influence from Ghibli. Like Pixar movies, a new release from Hayao
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The Turin Horse
While trying to explain the plot of Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr’s newest release The Turin Horse to one of my roommates, the words coming out of my mouth sounded something like this: “So, this
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