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B is for Bolshevism, B is for Bamako, S is for Show Trial

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2007-11-14 21:22:00 by Pacze Moj in Critical Culture
...undermine the Orthodox Church by placing it in a lose-lose situation. And it was the Church itself that gave Lenin the idea After famine broke out in Russia, the Church offered to donate its non-holy artifacts (it had both holy and non-holy artifacts) to help relieve the situation. Lenin refused the offerand, sensing a chance to strike,...
 
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Thailand Passes New Controversial Rating System

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2007-12-21 17:05:55 by John Campea in The Movie Blog
...undermine or disrupt social order and moral decency, or that might impact national security or the pride of the nation. Another point set to enrage film bizzers is the article that sees the countrys chief of police join the National Film and Video Committee I honestly dont know how I feel about that. I hate the idea of a government deciding...
 
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Day Zero

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2007-12-13 15:11:00 by Czaro Woj in Compact Cinema
...undermine both: the draft becomes a mere timing device ("Uh oh, only 2 days left! Will he go and leave his once-cancer stricken wife while simultaneously and symbolically redeeming his non-intervention in a juvenile rape? Only time will tell!"), and the characters jump through so many soapy hoops that when they get home from work, they just...
 
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The Road to Guantanamo (Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom, 2006)

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2007-12-19 04:02:00 by Y Kant Goran Rite in Y Kant Goran Rite
...undermine it - it is vital and horrific proof of humanity's regression in recent years. Ultimately, whatever its misgivings, a film that instigates debate and involvement in an elemental and ongoing injustice as well as documents and probes potentially one of mankind's gravest mistakes of the 21st century ought to be treasured and scrutinised
 
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SOMBRE (PHILIPPE GRANDRIEUX, 1998)

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2007-12-12 23:52:00 by mike in ESOTIKA EROTICA PSYCHOTICA
...undermine the visual, playing into the same idea of tension and terror mentioned above. This is also the second film that I've seen make a remarkably good use of the Bauhaus song "Bela Lugosi's Dead"--the other being The Hunger which is conventionally pretty and oneiric, but not as successful as this film In this film the song comes at a...
 
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THE DEAD MAN (PEGGY AHWESH & KEITH SANBORN, 1987)

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2007-09-26 21:23:00 by mike in ESOTIKA EROTICA PSYCHOTICA
...undermine what is supposed to be a lack of emotion, but it does. Really, it feels like a student film In an interview with Scott MacDonald, Ahwesh tries to explain that the film is meant to interpret the story of The Dead Man as "one long female jouissance , not a transgression at all." If that was her intention, she fails. While the one...
 
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Antoher "Children of Hurin" review... but this one's different.

2007-05-02 11:02:00 by Jeffrey Overstreet in Looking Closer Journal
 
...undermine and supplant Richard Wagner's operatic Ring cycle, which had offered so much inspiration for Nazism. [1] With the reconstruction of the young Tolkien's prehistory of Middle-earth, we discern a far broader purpose: to recast as tragedy the heroic myths of pre-Christian peoples, in which the tragic flaw is the pagan's tribal identity....
 
Tags: christian, pre-christian mythology, peoples, pre-christian peoples, profoundly christian motive, hurin, pagan flaw, pagan, anglo-saxon pagan myth
 
 
 
 
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DVD's of 2007

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2007-12-23 09:47:00 by Robert Monell in I'M IN A JESS FRANCO STATE OF MIND
...undermine human interactions to become visible To quote my original imdb review, based on a rather fuzzy video dupe with no English options An erotic, virtual reality puzzle for the adventurous viewer..., 7 August 2000Author: bobmonell from New York LA BELLE CAPTIVE may be Robbe-Grillet's most entertaining and accomplished film. It dazzles...
 
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THERE WILL BE BLOOD: Daniel Day Lewis Is Bloody Brilliant

2007-12-28 00:12:01 by Critics Rant in Critics Rant - Movie, DVD, and TV Show Reviews
 
...undermine and belittle him. It is amazingly hilarious to watch Daniels prospects flourish rapidly even though he goes against all known morality and into eventual madness H.W. goes deaf after an accident on one of the rigs and then Henry (Kevin J. OConnor) shows up saying hes Daniels long lost half-brother. After Henry appears H.W. goes mad...
 
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