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Friday, September 14, 2018

70's Bonanza: Ryan's Daughter

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There's a harsh juxtaposition of technique towards the end of David Lean's maligned 200 minute 1970 drama "Ryan's Daughter...
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Thursday, September 13, 2018

The Current Cinema 18.5

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The Little Stranger A diffuse haunted house story, Lenny Abrahamson's "The Little Stranger" works because of the creaky, atm...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

The Female Gaze: Christian Petzold's "Pilotinnen" aka Drifters

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Filmmaker Christian Petzold's cinema has always been a female-centric one. Portraying strong women in various modes of genre, ...
Saturday, August 04, 2018

The Current Cinema 18.4

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The King Eugene Jarecki's "The King" is a progressive and invigorating rolling roadshow of the halls and faces of America. O...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

The Current Cinema 18.3

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Sicario: Day of the Soldado The most disappointing aspect of Stefano Sollimo's sequel to Denis Villeneuve's critically acclaimed 2...
Tuesday, July 03, 2018

The Last Ten Films I've Seen, Summer Edition

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1) Black Water (2018)- New Dolph Lundgren/Van Damme 'actioner' that opens in most places next week. Hugely entertaining. A film th...
Sunday, June 10, 2018

On "Kate Plays Christine"

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Robert Greene's "Kate Plays Christine" is a jangled web of theories and diversions that not only brilliantly upends the very d...
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Thursday, May 24, 2018

An Appreciation: John Ford

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Straight Shooting (1917) **½- Ford’s first still available film, most interesting for its milieu and yes, some shots of people in and out o...
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Friday, April 13, 2018

The Current Cinema 18.2

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Chappaquidick As soon as Jason Clarke (as Ted Kennedy) mutters "I'm never going to be president" in the backseat of a car im...
Friday, March 30, 2018

A Home Away From Home: John Duigan's "Flirting"

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I never attended a boarding school. I never possessed the philosophical angst of young Danny (Noah Taylor). And I certainly never had a girl...
Saturday, March 17, 2018

The Current Cinema 18.1

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Red Sparrow Francis Lawrence's "Red Sparrow" is just the type of spy film we deserve right now. Visually beguiling and arid...
Saturday, March 03, 2018

70's Bonanza: Operation Ogre

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In the latter half of the twentieth century, cinema's attraction to the heroic romanticism and ultimate fatalism of the Wild West outl...
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

The Last Few Films I've Seen, early 2018 edition

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1. Princess Cyd (2017)- Had I made time for this in '17, it most certainly would have placed pretty high on my 'best of the year...
Friday, February 09, 2018

Cinema Obscura: Costa Gavras' "Shock Troops"

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One of my favorite films of all time is Jean Pierre Melville's "Army of Shadows" (1969). A masterpiece of murky atmosphere g...
Friday, February 02, 2018

Moments of 2017

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Inspired by the now defunct Film Comment "Moments Out of Time" series and the great Roger Ebert's year end recap, this Moment...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Faves of 2017

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20. The Great Wall I have a weakness for the late period Zhang Yimou films derided by most everyone else. While lukewarm on "...
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Freelance writer, film enthusiast, contributor to DallasFilmNow.com
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