Uncut Gems
It's excruciating and exhilarating.
August Diehl
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The Young Karl Marx (2018)
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Karl Marx
Glenn Kenny -
Allied (2016)
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Hobar
Peter Sobczynski -
Come What May (2016)
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Hans
Odie Henderson -
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
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Major Hellstrom
Roger Ebert -
The Counterfeiters (2008)
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Adolf Burger
Jim Emerson -
Love the Hard Way (2003)
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Jeff
Roger Ebert
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TIFF 2019: A Hidden Life, The Traitor
A dispatch on the new Malick and Bellocchio films.
Cannes 2019: A Hidden Life, The Whistlers
A review of new films by Terrence Malick and Corneliu Porumboiu.
Preview of the 21st Chicago European Union Film Festival
61 films from all 28 EU nations will screen this month at the Chicago European Union Film Festival.
#146 December 12, 2012
Marie writes: For those unaware, it seems our intrepid leader, the Grand Poobah, has been struck by some dirty rotten luck..."This will be boring. I'll make it short. I have a slight and nearly invisible hairline fracture involving my left femur. I didn't fall. I didn't break it. It just sort of...happened to itself." - Roger
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Inglourious Basterds: Real or fictitious, it doesn't matter...
Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" is about World War II in roughly the same way that, I suppose, Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" is about a haunted hotel. The war is indeed the setting, but that's not so much what the movie is about. I also don't see it as an act of Holocaust denial or an anti-vengeance fable in which we are supposed to first applaud the Face of Jewish Revenge, and then feel uncomfortable sympathy for the Nazis. The movie comes down firmly on the side of the Jews, and of revenge, of an early end to the war and the saving of thousands of lives, with barely a quibble.
But while "Inglourious Basterds" is indisputably a WW II revenge fantasy (and, of course, a typically Tarantinian "love letter to cinema"), a theme that is central to nearly every moment, every image, every line of dialog, is that of performance -- of existence as a form of acting, and human identity as both projection and perception. As you would expect from a film that is also an espionage picture and a detective movie, it's shot through with identity games, interrogations, role-playing and people or situations that are not what they appear to be...
