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MIND MELD: Which SF/F Books Have The Best and Worst Endings?

2008-05-01 00:28:14 by John in SF Signal
 
...blatantly sexist) if a male author could have written this ending as powerfully as she did. Now, I feel that the ending was uniquely Butlerian, unachievable by another author of either gender. Or should I say, considering Butler's other works, any gender As for the second great ending, one of the bonuses of which I spoke can be found in...
 
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5/28: Pierrot le fou

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2008-05-28 21:43:00 by Ed Howard in Only The Cinema
...blatantly fake prop guns, and running in and out of cars. Godard fragments the scene, repeating key moments again and again, destroying the moment-to-moment coherence in favor of a vague sensation of danger, hilarity, and action. The voiceover track, meanwhile, further exacerbates the confusion, as Belmondo and Karina take turns narrating the...
 
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The Dark Knight (2008): B

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2008-08-09 16:55:00 by rob humanick in The Projection Booth
...blatantly misguided some of its choices are). In the Gotham environment of disorder and death the film itself is driven by a taste for self-preservation and the need to know the redundancy of plotting info is a major blow to any developed mental buzz, and it horribly upsets the big-budget successes on prominent display, often sending this...
 
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The Loneliness of a Conservative Librarian By DAVID DURANT

2008-09-20 00:46:44 by Editor in CinemaDave
 
...blatantly partisan resolution The open politicization of the ALA has also trampled on the association's commitment to intellectual freedom and diversity of opinion. The ALA's Social Responsibilities Round Table, for example, has become the exclusive plaything of radical leftists, and they have made it abundantly clear that those holding...
 
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David Durant's Lonely Conservative Librarian

2008-09-21 17:11:09 by Editor in CinemaDave
 
...blatantly partisan resolution The open politicization of the ALA has also trampled on the association's commitment to intellectual freedom and diversity of opinion. The ALA's Social Responsibilities Round Table, for example, has become the exclusive plaything of radical leftists, and they have made it abundantly clear that those holding...
 
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The Brave One (2007) - Stylish and effective direction by Neil Jordan and brilliant performances by Jodie Foster and Terrance Howard cant overcome the

2007-09-18 01:05:12 by craiger in Craiger's Cinema Corner
 
...blatantly take the easiest possible exit off of that road www.craigerscinemacorner.com
 
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The weekly Ho-Hum: new friends at Golden Ageheaving Ho for the holidaysthe Freudian ramifications of Wallace Ford

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2007-11-16 12:29:00 by Flickhead in F L I C K H E A D — Selected Short Subjects
...blatantly phallic cigar, and he shacks up with Dick Foran. I think he rubs a little hula doll named Boopsie. And, Im sorry, but I look at him and I cant help thinking: what ungainly, wretchedly ugly feet he mustve had I could see it in Nelhydreas eyes: here we go with The Feet. That, of course, is a Another Story for Another Day Watch...
 
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Surrealism and Cinema: The Artificial Night

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2007-07-16 19:40:00 by girish in girish
...blatantly artificial. Whats more, they are surrealist in (usually) an involuntary, not self-conscious manner. And best of all they are virtually anonymous works in the eyes of official culture [] Among the more deliberate and erudite of film artificialists, Orson Welles ( Mr. Arkadin , 1955) and Raul Ruiz ( The Three Crowns of the Sailor ,...
 
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DAY 1: Prefatory Remarks & Pre-history

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2007-08-01 02:00:00 by Damian in Windmills of My Mind
...blatantly and violently. In desperation, Steven would sometimes fake sick so as to stay home and avoid getting beaten up. When he did go to school, Stevens mother would pick him up afterwards and drive him home for the sake of her sons safety (even though they lived within walking distance). These troubles had the unfortunate effect of making...
 
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