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Film Reviews
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Just when you thought it was safe to go to the movies, actor turned director Bill Paxton turns in an unsettling religious horror film.
2.
A review which tries to capture the unique experience which is Béla Tarr’s Sátántangó.
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Steven Soderbergh balances arthouse modernism with conventions of the classical genre to produce nouveau gangster chic.
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An in-depth analysis of an overlooked silent film classic by Russian emigré Dimitri Kirsanov.
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An analysis of the year that was. An improvement over 2000, according to Rist.
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Good things do come in small packages, with this subtle and delicate low budget digi-film that dignifies 24 hours in the life of two flawed, yet endearing losers, lovers Alex and J.D.
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A review of Robin Schlaht's recent Canadian feature Solitude.
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Part two of David Neo's subtle analysis of Fractal memory images in Sokoruv's Mother and Son.
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Gilles Deleuze Meets the Mandelbrot set in this theoretical exploration of the memory images in Sokoruv's modern day Kammerspiel classic Mother and Son.
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Offscreen rarely reviews big budget Hollywood. But I am making an exception with the latest remake of Planet of the Apes, if only to reaffirm why it is that Offscreen treads cautiously when it comes to current Hollywood.
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Will Buster Keaton ever date? Unlikely, as this recent retrospective demonstrates.
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The Award winning Canadian experimental narrative film Subterranean Passage is a meticulously layered visual puzzle that slowly unravels through a series of echoing motifs on the wonder and resiliency of childhood imagination.
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Genghis Blues touches the very core of the human soul -as great music does- and demonstrates with poetic simplicity how music can be the great cultural leveler. How else can you explain the immediate, symbiotic link that is established between a burly, blind, near-forgotten San Franciscan bluesman and the people of a remote Central Asian nation, Tuva?
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My curiosity about a film entitled Burn, Witch, Burn has been peaked since the day I purchased an original one-sheet of the film in the mid-1970's. With the film still unavailable on video, I had written off the likelihood of every seeing the film.
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