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A documentary by Katharina Otto-Bernstein A boy in a boat transfixed by light. A nail goes into a hand and someone sings. A woman in black evening dress faces the audience and fires a gun. The earth splits and boulders rain from the ...
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Written and Directed by: Arnaud Desplechin Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Cosigny, Chiara Mastroianni MPAA rating: Unrated Run Time: 143 minutes http://www.bacfilms.com/site/conte/ Arnaud Desplechin is contemporary French cinema’s purest descendent of its Nouvelle Vague. He displays Jacques Rivette’s interest in the interplay between the artifice of art ...
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Directed by Mel Gibson Starring: Dalia Hernandez, Mayra Serbulo, Gerardo Taracena, Raoul Trujillo, Rudy Youngblood Directed by: Mel Gibson Produced by: Ned Dowd, Vicki Christianson, Mel Gibson Rated R for sequences of graphic violence and disturbing images Mayan with subtitles I’m ...
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Arnaud Desplechin and The Cinema of Enchantment Just in time for the holiday season, a holiday film unlike any other has arrived from France. Called, aptly enough, A Christmas Tale, it’s a marvelous feast cooked up by the incomparable Arnaud Desplechin, one of France’s most original directors working today. ...
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The Astronaut Farmer has an improbable back-story that emerges as the plot trudges forward. It stars Billy Bob Thornton as Charles Farmer, the father, husband, and washed-up astronaut-in-training of the film’s title. Farmer’s own father had committed suicide after a life of failure and ...
Beverly BerningFilm
Ballerina (2009) A documentary by Bertrand Normand Running Time: 80 minutes MPAA Rating: Not Rated http://firstrunfeatures.com/ballerina_synopsis.html After the surprising success of the 2005 documentary Ballet Russes, Ballerina must be hoping for a similar outcome, and so it should, considering not only ballet’s devoted fan base, but even laypeople ...
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Interior. Day. A small hotel conference room. A woman, BEVERLY BERNING, walks in, followed by a publicist. BEVERLY is casually dressed, not too sexy, not too frumpy. She looks like she could be in her mid-forties, but it’s hard to tell. A man, CHARLIE KAUFMAN, is standing at the other ...
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This movie is another sign of a growing tendency in contemporary cinema towards conspicuous imitation. It seems that originality is no longer something to aspire to. The story isn’t what’s important anyway. It’s all about mixing genres; and, it seems, the more genres you mix, the better. In this case, ...
Dan SchneiderFilm
Marcel Camus's 1959 French film, Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro), made in 1959, in Portuguese, is by no means a great film, but it is a landmark film; an odd amalgam of modernity and the worst stereotypes about black culture worldwide. The whole ...
Michael McDonaghFilm
The Blood Of My Brother (2005) www.storytellerinc.com It seems only yesterday that I told two of my Palestinian friends, Ramiz and Joe, that our making war on Iraq again would open Pandora's box, and unleash untold horrors. That was over three years ago, and ...
