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There's that cliché about getting the band back together, but what if you never stopped rocking out, even when you were well into middle age and still hadn't achieved fame or fortune? Such is the passionate journey of life-long friends Robb Reiner and Steve "Lips" Kudlow, co-founding members of Anvil ("the Canadian demi-gods of metal"). Sacha Gervasi, who met and roadied for Anvil as a teenager, directs Anvil! The Story of Anvil, a wonderfully tender if admittedly uproarious documentary about the duo, now in their fifties, and their underdog story to finally achieve the success it deserves. Just before its U.S. theatrical release, Aaron Hillis sat down to chat with the maker and stars for a new podcast. More >> |
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In This Dispatch:
- What's New: Men, Lost in Austen, The Reader and more.
- What We're Watching: Abar, The Pope's Toilet, Don't Look Down.
- Explore: Observe and Report controversy; movies better the 2nd time.
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When this German comedy was first released in 1986, the NY Times Walter Goodman wrote that it's "easy to understand why Men has been filling theaters in West Germany for the last eight months. This deftly turned anecdote is the best feminist joke yet to reach the screen, and, although comparisons to Ernst Lubitsch may be premature, its 31-year-old West German director and writer, Doris Dorrie, who studied movie making in America, has a witty and winning way with a line and a camera." It's long been unavailable on DVD -- until today. |
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Never mind that Jane Austen biopic from last year; this time traveling movie, originally shown on BBC telly, is far more fun. The film "wll prove more than satisfactory to both Austen fans and those looking for a light-hearted romantic romp with a twist," writes Ian Visser on DVD Verdict. "It's a charming way to spend time, when you don't feel like curling up with one of Austen's own books." And DVDTalk agrees it's "fun, it's smart and most of all it humanizes these characters in extremely unexpected ways." |
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Not all that long ago, blogger " The Film Fiend" was one of quite a few cinema geeks jonesing for this (blaxploitation) not-quite classic to come out on DVD, even if he considers it "unintentionally hilarious." BlackHorrorMovies deems it "sort of like Soul Vengeance minus the phallic asphyxiation: it's not really horror, but it features a supernatural element that, combined with a blaxploitation militancy and rigid acting, generates a true camp spectacle." Queue this motha up, jive turkeys. |
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We Americans see so few films from Uruguay that when one as accomplished as The Pope's Toilet (El Baño del Papa) (out today from Film Movement) comes along, it's difficult not to over-praise, while simultaneously gliding over its some of its subtler accomplishments. First off, the movie is the collaboration between two men -- César Charlone and Enrique Fernández -- who share the responsibility for both writing and directing. How they managed to put together something so seamless would make a fine question for an interview... read review >> |
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First a few words on writer/director Eliseo Subiela. Talk about onomatopoeia: Say his name aloud and you'll be floating on clouds, a somewhat similar effect to what happens when watching his films. Subiela may be a household word in his native Argentina, but he is hardly one here in the U.S. This is too bad, as we could learn a bit from the filmmaker, whose preoccupations seem to be sex and desire, altered states, reincarnation and how to really see the world (via his own unique vision, anyway)... read review >> |
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