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Girl on a Motorcycle (1968)

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2008-09-28 09:11:20 by dfordoom in Cult Movie Reviews
...arty, its pretentious, its slow, and its very very 1960s. If those things turn you off, dont even bother with this movie. On the other hand if (like me) you happen to enjoy 60s movies that are arty, pretentious and slow then youre in for a treat Marianne Faithfull stars as Rebecca, a young woman who is engaged to be married to a very nice...
 
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Wagner Bolting UA; Valkyrie Will Open in December

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2008-08-13 16:17:59 by Variety.com * in Thompson On Hollywood
...arty picture with great performances, year-end award season support is probably just what it needs Cruise's long-time producing partner, Paula Wagner, is a fine studio producer and was a great agent, but the nurturing of Cruise and his movies is quite another matter from running a company. With Mary Parent now in charge at MGM, Wagner is...
 
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Wagner Bolting UA; Valkyrie Will Open in December

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2008-08-13 16:17:59 by Variety.com * in Thompson On Hollywood
...arty picture with great performances, year-end award season support is probably just what it needs Cruise's long-time producing partner, Paula Wagner, is a fine studio producer and was a great agent, but the nurturing of Cruise and his movies is quite another matter from running a company. With Mary Parent now in charge at MGM, Wagner is...
 
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The Edge of Love (2008)

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2008-10-14 14:12:47 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
...arty soul ends up like a goldfish flapping on the floor or the prick gets his comeuppance from someone speaking as the voice of contemporary sexual politicswondering why they are made, why they treat their subjects so. In Thomas case, a drunkard who collapsed and died in a Greenwich Village bar at age 39, theres not much image to despoil, and...
 
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The New International Art Film

2007-12-07 18:58:00 by Chris Cagle in Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog
 
...arty (Id prefer not to finger any specific bad examples; anyone who watches lots of international art films will have their own sense of this This art-film tendency dovetails with America's contribution to the art film, the independent film. I've previously diagnosed the "cinema of anomie" in makers like Miranda July. It makes me wonder how...
 
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2007-11-20 23:49:00 by Tanner in Double O Section
...arty in disguise (as Sidney Bristow would do so often several decades later) to steal the same MacGuffin that would fuel DePalmas 1996 film, a NOC list. (This one identifies American agents who have been turned by the other side.) Rollin has a lot of fun playing a lecherous old general, perpetually hitting on the glam Sixties dollybirds...
 
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Movie Review: 11 DAYS 11 NIGHTS 3

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2007-08-21 00:08:00 by Jared in WORLDWEIRD CINEMA
...arty or serious. The main girl is a hot little number, with sexy wide child bearing hips and a generous hinder. It all adds up to a solid little winner of cheap sex flick Find it, check it out. It's good for a giggle at least DVD provided by Miltos Kordas and his CINEHOUND FORUM! (See link at right
 
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Donald Pleasence

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2007-11-03 11:40:41 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
...arty faction leader who manipulates Peter Finchs soft-headed MP into a back-bench revolt in No Love For Johnny (1961); and the most notorious of mild-mannered English murderers, Dr. Crippen (1962). His stage career was on fire at this point, originating as he did the role of the sinister derelict in The Caretaker (1962), the play that also...
 
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TOWARDS A GENDER ANALYSIS OF THE PINKY VIOLENCE FILM: introduction

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2007-11-05 10:50:00 by Ed Hardy, Jr. in Shoot the Projectionist
...arty when compared to contemporary American equivalents and extremely tame when compared to contemporary European equivalents At the same time, major Japanese film studios like Toei had begun to treat stories of the yakuza (Japanese organized crime groups) in a similar fashion to the traditional samurai film. These were called ninkyo eiga ,...
 
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World Film Festival of Bangkok

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2007-11-08 07:50:00 by Brian in Asian Cinema - While on the Road
...arty fare with many of them having won awards at other festivals. The festival moved to a new venue this year, but it was a bit out of the way for many and the audience numbers were quite slim at my screenings with only one film (4M3W2D) having a near sell out. Of course the main issue with the festival is that none of the films had Thai...