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Thursday, September 4, 2025

The Way Back

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The Australian director, Peter Weir, has not made a movie since The Way Back  released in 2010.  I recall that the film was released to luke...
Sunday, August 31, 2025

To Live and Die in LA

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 The logic of big business popular movies is the logic of advertising and publicity.  If something is successful, then, there must be enhanc...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

The Hunter

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  The Hunter  (2011) features Willem Dafoe as a laconic mercenary tasked with shooting the last surviving Tasmanian tiger and harvesting its...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

The Gentlemen

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 The British action director, Guy Ritchie, was once married to Madonna.  Apparently, their liaison lasted for six or seven years before endi...
Sunday, August 17, 2025

Silk Stockings

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Ninotchka  (1939) is an Ernst Lubitsch comedy about a stern Communist idealogue who happens to be a woman softening and finding love in Pari...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

Femme Fatale (Film note)

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 Femme Fatale 1. Life is but a dream. Hollywood has been called the dream factory.   Movies exist at the intersection of private dreams and ...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Passion

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 As his penultimate film, Brian De Palma's Passion (2012) is valedictory, a farewell, it seems, to the exorbitant baroque thrillers and ...
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