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In This Dispatch:
- What's New: Blame It on Fidel, Sicko, and much more.
- What We're Watching: Exiled, Conchords, and Motel.
- Service Highlights: Member lists.
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This charming French coming of age film certainly has a fine pedigree behind it - directed by Julie Gavras, daughter of filmmaker Costa-Gavras, and co-starring Julie Depardieu, daughter of Gerard."Brilliantly, the movie becomes a double coming-of-age story. The parents' political awakening parallels their daughter's" (Wesley Morris, Boston Globe). "A wrenching, funny and wise little picture, with a diva-like junior star at its center," adds Andrew O'Hehir, Salon. (Nina Kervel-Bey is pretty unforgettable as the girl.) |
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Well, here he is, scourge of right wing media pundits and hero to many, controversial documentarian Michael Moore goes straight to the heart of an often heartless system: 50 million Americans have no health insurance and no way to get it. But does it show growth as a filmmaker? He does make a few of his typical transgressions (to get at a greater truth), but "Sicko is likely Moore's most important, most impressive, most provocative film, and it's different from his others in significant ways," wrote Kenneth Turan of the LA Times. Adds Sean Axmaker (Seattle Post-Intelligencer): "With less lampooning and satirical asides, Sicko may be less 'entertaining' than Moore's previous films, but it's also more affecting and effective." |
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James Van Maanen of the first of Johnnie To's Election films: "The movie pulls you in via its characters and keeps you glued so that when the action finally begins, you're beyond hooked. (Much of the action, too, springs from character--unusual for this genre--which makes it all the more riveting and special.)" Now you can see the superior first film and the still entertaining second film, Triad Election, as Election arrives on DVD. Read full review >>
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Craig Phillips offers ten reasons to love Flight of the Conchords: Complete First Season , the blissfully, sublimely hilarious HBO series about two Kiwi musicians trying to make it in the Big Apple, including: "The dialogue exchanges are often riotously funny, but Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement are so comfortable with their routine(s) that it often bears repeat viewings just to catch the humor"; and "because the lyrics are flippin' brilliant...The songs are both catchy, and hilarious - but the video interludes in which they perform them put them over the top, summing up perfectly the show's mix of deadpan, ridiculous and clever. "
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Michael Kang's lovely independent film The Motel is set in, yes, a motel run by a Chinese American family, but it's not a family film per se - it doesn't at all shy away from the seedy aspects of this place, with its hourly rates (and weekly rates - both with their own depressing qualities) nor from its protagonist's budding sexual curiosity. Read full review >>
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Here's a tip for GreenCine newbies and casual members. Creating a member list is a great way to help your fellow GreenCiners discover connected films, or your favorite films. Search through some of the other lists to see what territory's already been covered and create one of your own lists! The best lists also have a little write-up about each film included, your own personal commentary about why you love a film, or what's interesting about it. Lists connect one film to another in our catalog, so they help our web site become more like a, well, web. Member lists by top rated >> |
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Falling Back in Time
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