Dennis Lee Captures 'Birds in Fall'
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Top 10 Films of 2007
...captures the tone of the story without getting in the way of the performances, matched by the production designs of Christopher Nowak ( The X-Files , Find Me Guilty ) and the dramatic score by Carter Burwell ( The Big Lebowski , No Country for Old Men
Lumet always draws out the best possible performances from his cast, and here that includes...
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Justice League: The New Frontier
...captures the nuances of Cooke's art while also accurately reflecting the Silver Age influences on his story. The production justifiably earns its PG-13 rating, as there are a couple of instances of vivid violence and disturbing imagery, as well as an overall tone suited to an older audience
The closing montage set to John F. Kennedy's...
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1941: The Hero's Journey
...captures 132 enemy soldiers. Hailed as a national hero for the almost superhuman feat, the reluctant soldier is awarded the nation's highest honor , a ticker tape parade in New York, and offers of wealth and privilege. But, he turns these offers down preferring to return home to Tennessee, improve the education system there, and marry his...
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DVD Review Of La Notte
...captures emotional desolation so well, for that directors obsessional penchant for close-ups of the human face are too irresistibly inviting to imbue emotion into, whereas Antonioni spurns close-ups for immuring and trammeling his characters in complex visual compositions
The plot, however, of La Notte is very simple, yet the simpleminded are...
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Is It "Too Soon" for Another Quiz?
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Hour of the Wolf . The closest Bergman has ever come to directing a horror movie. The eyeballs in goblets would have been a dead giveaway
Scenes from a Marriage . Nice jewelry, Bibi
The Virgin Spring . Anyone for a toad sandwich
THE RULES OF THE GAME: For each of the next 8 Fridays (starting August 18th), Cinephiliac...
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Eyes on the Prize
...captures use Region 1 discs from my personal collection. ONLY ONE WEEKLY ENTRY will be accepted via email , and please DO NOT post answers in the site's comments section. In the case of a tie, a sudden-death lightning round will begin in Week 9
ALMS FOR THE POOR: Because these contest giveaways are 100% funded by Cinephiliac, all players are...
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Short Film Week, Day 4: Haynes, Melville, Saul Levine
...captures Steven's angst and confusion not only in the straightforward domestic scenes, which themselves play like mildly exaggerated material from a 50s sitcom, but in Steven's esoteric dream sequences, which provide an excuse for some stunning psychosexual imagery. In his dreams, Steven imagines himself as a king, complete with an absurdly...
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MR. SHOOP'S SUMMER SURFIN' QUIZ HONOR ROLL
...captures the joy and heartbreak that players and devoted fans routinely feel about the game (and about this event in its history). That said, Fear Strikes Out, Bingo Long's Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings, and Kevin Costner's triple play (well, technically a hat trick, but that's another sport entirely) in Bull Durham, Field of Dreams and...
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1/22: Early Spring; Duck Soup
...captures the milieu of the salaried worker with an attentive eye for detail and a keen sense of the loneliness and ultimate meaninglessness of this kind of life. And yet in the midst of this gloom, Ozu injects his film with such richness of detail, moments of fullness and celebration, that the sadness is leavened by hopefulness. As with...