Just as Hong-Sang Soo had gotten into a groove of making his films so funny that I began expecting each successive one to be a little funnier than the last,…
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A personal-anecdote-and-snark-free consideration of Xavier Beauvois' Of Gods And Men, an official entry in the New York Film Festival and coming soon to theaters from Sony Pictures Classics, is up…
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You're going to be reading/hearing a lot of things about this picture; hell, you've most likely already read and heard a lot of things about this picture; I'm actually going…
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"Enjoy the the Navajo and the anti-semitism!" an impish friend commented on Facebook at my mention that I was seeing the new Jean-Luc Godard, Film Socialisme, this morning. Well, as…
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About a third of the way through this new film by Iranian director Abba Kiarostami, the character played by Juliette Binoche is sitting in a cafe in a tourist-laden Tuscan…
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1) A couple of night before the New York Film Festival press screening of this picture, I was trying to prep a friend who would also be attending, and whose…
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