By the time I saw Sugar at AFI Fest last November, I was awash in finely rendered, spare, character-driven bits of American independent film: Ballast, Wendy & Lucy, Momma’s Man – there were others but they’re all kind of a blur to me at the moment. So it is that I liked the latest film [...]
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I was stricken by disease and turned into a walking, talking snot factory this weekend so I chose to do my fellow movie patrons a favor and stay out of the theater. I suppose I could’ve spent the weekend in front of the TV watching DVDs, but I only got around to one: Federico Fellini’s [...]
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Try to imagine Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago or Passage to India without the scores by Maurice Jarre. You can’t do it. Now we have to imagine a world without Maurice Jarre.
RIP.
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This is the second trailer for Lemon Tree, the winner of the Panorama Audience Award at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival. The trailer has been kicking around at least a week, but the movie itself just officially popped on to LiC radar this very moment and I hope to catch it in the next [...]
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As you may recall, LiC contributor Sam Kressner is also a staff critic for NYU’s Washington Square News. In order to shine a light on the man’s work and in order to capitalize on his unique position at the center of the film release universe, we like to link to his reviews from time to [...]
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Julie Gayet and Michaël Cohen ask themselves: Shall We Kiss?
The romantic comedy Shall We Kiss? is the kind of sparkling frivolity that seems to be the unique province of the French. The American counterpart would be heavy on gags and light on charm with a third act denouement that has the hero and heroine finding [...]
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I wasn’t feeling Ang Lee’s next film Taking Woodstock until just now when I watched the trailer. It feels like a change of pace from Lee’s recent output – a throwback to some of his less emotionally intense fare like Eat Drink Man Woman.
I like how the split screen riffs on the vibe from the [...]
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Here’s a little game we like to play each Thursday called The Weekend Forecast. It’s your guide to the new movies hitting theaters this Friday and, as always, it’s 100% free of charge and worth twice the price.
Monsters vs. Aliens. DreamWorks dips its toes into animated 3D waters and comes up with a group of [...]
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Yeah. Screw the haters and the doubters. My inner 12-year-old is alive and well and all over this one (my outer 39-year-old is still a big fan of bourbon and waking up next to naked, frazzle-haired supermodels, but that’s another story).
Anyway, not really at all what I expected, but it completely fits. Check it out [...]
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English artist Steve McQueen’s first feature, Hunger, is an uncompromising, grim and intense piece of work that probes the 66 day hunger strike led by Bobby Sands to restore the political status of members of the IRA being held at The Maze prison in Northern Ireland in 1981.
Largely eschewing the highly charged politics behind the [...]
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