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In This Dispatch:
- What's New: Gran Torino, Were the World Mine, and more.
- What We're Watching: Married Woman, Man Hunt, Just Another Love Story.
- Explore: Cory McAbee's Stingray Sam.
- Contest: (reminder) Away We Go.
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On GreenCine Guru, Andrew Wright says " Gran Torino, purportedly Eastwood's final time in front of the camera is the damndest thing: an elegiac treatise on race, aging, and manhood that keeps rearing up and going full-tilt cartoonishly loco. Featuring no small number of creaky plot contrivances and enough racial invectives to make Redd Foxx blanch, it's the most purely entertaining film that Eastwood has been involved with since In the Line of Fire. That it also manages to be ultimately rather moving may stand as the best testament yet to The Man's considerable skill set." Much more here. |
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This cute, if slight, indie jaunt "follows the teen musical formula but renders its material with admirable lushness and intelligence," wrote the SF Chronicle's Reyhan Harmanci. "It was a hit as an indie short film on the film festival circuit before director and writer Tom Gustafson turned it into a full-length musical, so irony and self-referral humor are written into its DNA." It's a "queer-centric take on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream," wrote Ernest Hardy in the Voice, that "taps into a winning sweetness and poignancy." |
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Subtitled Suite de fragments d'un film tourné en 1964 en noir et blanc ("fragments of a film shot in 1964, in black and white"), one of Jean-Luc Godard's least known features from his most fertile decade ticked off censors and de Gaulle himself, if only for one image of a bidet and the article in the original title—"The" Married Woman might have implied that JLG was depicting the typically illicit behavior of every modern French wife... read review >> |
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Fritz Lang loved to tell the story about how, in the 1930s, Adolf Hitler summoned him for a meeting. The Fuhrer had seen Lang's Metropolis and wanted Lang to be an official Reich filmmaker. Lang said, "Sure," and then proceeded to flee the country, not even stopping to clean out his bank account. A few years later, in Hollywood, Lang had a small chance to set the record straight with the excellent thriller Man Hunt... read review >>
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The corrosive effects of desire and deception on human connections is quickly established in director Ole Bornedal's (helmer of the 1997 American re-make of his own Nightwatch) self-conscious but thoroughly entertaining re-work of classic film noir tradition... read review >> |
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Speaking of the funny and heartfelt Away We Go, as mentioned above, GreenCine and Focus Features have teamed up for a new contest where you can win a bagful of Away We Go goodies. Five (5) Winners will receive the official movie soundtrack, plus an Away We Go T-shirt and postcard! For more details and to enter the contest, go here >>
Also, congratulations are in order to the lucky winner of our SilverDocs Film Festival contest: Erik Lang! Enjoy the fest, Erik. |
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Vegas, baby. Vegas.
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