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View image No comment. How good, or bad, does a movie have to be in order to make an impression -- enough of one, anyway, so that you can remember it, or even still feel like talking about it, 15…
View image No comment. How good, or bad, does a movie have to be in order to make an impression -- enough of one, anyway, so that you can remember it, or even still feel like talking about it, 15…
View image The politics of "Glengarry Glen Ross" in a nutshell. Although I'm still reeling from the shocking revelation that David Mamet once considered himself a liberal ("David Mamet says he is not a brain-dead liberal anymore"), I find myself…
From Kate Johnson:
View image The youngest victims of the games. 1) A letter from Kate Johnson, published at RogerEbert.com: Too late I read your review [of "Funny Games"]. I was blindsided by this movie. Went with a friend and didn't know a…
Alejandro Polanco plays... Alejandro. My review of "Chop Shop" is in the Chicago Sun-Times and on RogerEbert.com. Here's an excerpt: Three shots into Rahmin Bahrani's "Chop Shop," and you're already pulled into its world with an effortless economy and precision…
View image Another evolutionary stage. "I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact with other intelligences: we could see what role, if any, religion…
Michael Haneke, Austrian experimenteur. UPDATED (03/15/08) Selected interviews: From Adam Nayman's interview/review with "Funny Games" director Michael Haneke in Toronto's eyeweekly: “I’m trying to impart in my films what mainstream movies work to take away,” explains Haneke in an exclusive…
View image The tagline reads: "You Must Admit, You Brought This On Yourself." Here's the bait. Do you want it? My review of "Funny Games" is in the Chicago Sun-Times and on RogerEbert.com. Here's an excerpt: * * * *…
View image Nudge-nudge. (2008) UPDATED (03/15/08) (My review of "Funny Games" is here. See also Your User's Guide to Movie Violence, a discussion below.) * * * * "You Must Admit, You Brought This On Yourself" -- advertising tagline, and…
View image Under the bridge. My review of "Paranoid Park" is in the Chicago Sun-Times and on RogerEbert.com. Here's an excerpt: Many films use scrambled chronology just to make the story seem more interesting than it really is. That's not…
