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"A majestic package fit for the film that would make Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris swoon in unison," swoons Fernando Croce in Slant in a review of this new Criterion DVD for Max Ophüls' masterpiece. "Evanescence is an integral part of cinema, and no other director captured it as lyrically and yet as savagely as Ophüls. His tracking, dollying, gliding camera was never more mellifluous, or his visualization of life's inexorable flow more tangible, than in The Earrings of Madame de..." DVD Beaver's Gary W Tooze marvels at the bountiful extras: "What a package, what a film - strongly recommended!" The disc is just one of three Ophüls treats Criterion brings us today; La Ronde and Le Plaisir are the others, and for a handy round-up of new reviews of all three films, allez en GreenCine: Read more >> |
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In This Dispatch:
- What's New: Young@Heart, Kabluey and a lot more.
- What We're Watching: Snow Angels, Last Winter, and Faerie Tales.
- Explore: David Lean.
- Special Promo: Filminglocations.com
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Young@Heart is a New England senior citizens' chorus that has delighted audiences worldwide with their covers of songs by everyone from The Clash to Coldplay, as seen in Stephen Walker's "exuberant, affectionate documentary" (Chicago Tribune). "It sounds dubious and cutesy," admits Jeffrey M Anderson, "but within minutes it reveals itself as the real thing and doubt gives way to unbridled enthusiasm."Jeff also interviewed the director and two members of the chorus, for GreenCine. |
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In Kabluey, Scott Prendergast "assembles an assortment of unappealing characters, an exhausted setup (spiritual emptiness in McMansion land, ho-hum) and every conceivable anxiety-inducer known to late-00s Americans - joblessness, war, credit-card debt, menial labor, economic turmoil, live offspring - to pull off what may be the best evocation of contemporary alienation in a movie so far this year," writes Mark Holcomb in Time Out New York. Adds the Voice's Jim Ridley: "Catches the nation's mood of economic anxiety and workplace exploitation more pungently than anything else in theaters. " Read more >> |
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The fourth film from writer-director David Gordon Green has many similarities to his earlier films George Washington, All the Real Girls and Undertow: A small-town setting, the interconnected lives of a broad community. At the same time, it's a significant departure. Snow Angels is set in a snowy Eastern community, as opposed to the Southern landscapes that have been the backdrop for Green's earlier films; it's his first adaptation; it's got his "biggest" cast, in terms of name recognition and marquee value (or at least some indie version of it, with Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale playing a struggling separated couple). Based on Stewart O'Nan's acclaimed novel... Read more >> |
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With rueful pleas for corporate regulation, doomsday global warming scenarios, references to Alaskan corruption and even an off the cuff remark about how fuel efficiency can be improved by adjusting tire pressure, The Last Winter is a supernatural horror film that provides us yet another lens to examine our national political conscious. Pitting blue state against red state in the form of male sexual jealousy it's to writer/director Larry Fessenden's great credit that he seems largely indifferent to humanity's unity or survival. Or, at the very least, takes great pleasure in ripping it to shreds (as any good horror director would)... Read review >> |
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Back in the 1980s, Shelley Duvall delighted audiences with Faerie Tale Theatre, a Showtime series of presentations based on classic stories, the 26 episodes of which are now back out on DVD. "The shows were paced for children, and as lavish visually as an expensive storybook," writes R.D. Heldenfels. "But they were also aimed at adults, both in their casting ( Robin Williams as the Frog Prince, Mick Jagger as a Chinese emperor) and in writing that had a modern tone. In some respects, Faerie Tale Theatre was a canny updating of the old 'Fractured Fairy Tales' cartoons." |
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"Widescreen" and "epic" are the words that spring to mind when you hear the name David Lean. The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago, A Passage to India: Big, sweeping, Oscar-scooping historical pageants, all. But Lean, who would have turned 100 this year, was hardly a one-trick pony. The British Film Institute has restored several of his earlier, overlooked features and screened them in a retrospective that began in London in the spring and now arrives on our shores - first stop, New York's Film Forum. GreenCine Daily's followed the critical reaction all year-long to what essentially amounts to a rediscovery of a landmark talent. Take a look here, here and here. |
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