The Smurfs 3-D is not ever even close to being as 'delic as this image from it might cause you to infer. Alas. My review of this dire disappointment is…
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Sorry, couldn't help it. But as I say of Miranda July's The Future in my review for MSN Movies, the artist's problem isn't so much twee as it is dink.…
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With Rod Taylor in Zabriskie Point, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970. The obits say Spradlin specialized in playing "authority figures," but his real art was in mixing you up about how you…
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Once more into the breach. Equipment: For Region A domestic and import discs, Playstation 3 console. For Region B import discs, OPPO BDP 83. Display: Hitachi P50V701, 16:9 Standard 2 Aspect…
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...Fassbinder's amazing 1973 World on Wire, now at the IFC Center. Richard Brody exults on it here; I exulted on it on this blog last year. I may exult on…
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A version of pastoral in Jack Conway's 1930 all-talking version of The Unholy Three. In the foreground, Lila Lee and Lon Chaney; in the background, Ivan Linow and, in the…
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