Wes Anderson may be the currently working director least suited to using 3D. His scenes are often flat tableaux with his characters spread out laterally across the screen. If he…
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Every week on Cinematica - the movie podcast I co-host with Simon Werry and Kailey Carruthers - we sign-off each film with a two-word review. It’s a gag, of course,…
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In a week when film fans are mourning the passing of the French great Claude Chabrol (80 year old co-pioneer of the French New Wave) it’s pleasing to report that…
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Full disclosure: I wrote a play about Michael Jackson once ("Dirty Doris", BATS 1995) so I’ll confess to always being interested in the real character behind the tabloid and music…
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Oh, what kind of year is 2008 that has two Coen Brothers films within it? In February I was swooning over No Country for Old Men and now, just a…
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As recounted by celebrated neurologist Oliver Sacks in a recent New Yorker, amnesia is a fascinating condition. In the article he tells the story of classical musician Clive Wearing who,…
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