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(1943) |
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"Lustrous, gospel-folklore retelling of Faust"
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CinePassion |
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(2005) |
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"Another step towards replacing facile jolts with compassionate scrutiny"
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CinePassion |
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(1982) |
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"An arrestingly self-annihilating hardcore revue"
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CinePassion |
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(1974) |
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"Nothing enhances Altman's visual-aural density like the bustle of poker circles, race tracks, boxing rings"
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CinePassion |
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(1979) |
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"Not so much the culmination of '70s porn-chic cinema as its purposefully degraded last hurrah"
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CinePassion |
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(1979) |
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"Kieslowski lays the foundation of robust realism and takes off in a search for transcendence"
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CinePassion |
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(1983) |
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"A lithe and dangerous tango, a kind of romantic Wesselmann"
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CinePassion |
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(1980) |
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"A curious anagram of Rabid, with borrowings from Lolita and The Third Man and Antonio Margheriti's joking feeling for systematic chaos"
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CinePassion |
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(1980) |
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"Ruggero Deodato's purposefully unwatchable opus questions the film image's validity while debasing it"
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CinePassion |
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(1946) |
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"Jacques Tourneur at work in color on Western landscapes is something to behold"
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"Unfortunately, Moore's slapdash approach withers before the sprawling canvas, and his dot-like anecdotes rattle around."
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CinePassion |
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(2005) |
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"Aims for starkness but ends up as tastefulness"
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CinePassion |
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(1967) |
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"First and foremost a moral document in the face of faddish decadence"
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CinePassion |
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(1981) |
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"Dance as cultural remembrance and exorcism"
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"Pixar's grown so metallic that having automobiles for animated characters becomes disturbingly apt"
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CinePassion |
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(1971) |
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"Jazzy welter of Hitchcockisms"
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"A Bond for our times, indeed"
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CinePassion |
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(2008) |
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"Everything is utterly disengaged"
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CinePassion |
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2/4 |
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(1997) |
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"It was just a matter of time before Michael Haneke and Franz Kafka crossed paths."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1997) |
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"How cold does Michael Haneke have to be for a punitively faithful Kafka adaptation to qualify as one of his most humane works?"
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Slant Magazine |
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(1979) |
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"The modulation from capper suavity to brisk Dumas-like derring-do is quicksilver"
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CinePassion |
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(1990) |
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"Fulci's splatter meta-comedy is founded equally on sardonic censor-baiting and the true confessions of a conflicted auteur"
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CinePassion |
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(1971) |
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"Uncanny"
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CinePassion |
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(1949) |
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"European incantation has given way to the shadows of American noir"
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CinePassion |
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(1936) |
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"Howard Hawks' speed, vitality and precision are startling"
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CinePassion |
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(1983) |
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"A very dry comedy, essayed in the style of Jack Hill, or possibly Verhoeven"
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CinePassion |
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(2008) |
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"Dreary, Oscar-or-die vehicle"
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CinePassion |
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(1950) |
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"Genet's song of love should make be seen by every cineaste, straight and queer alike."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1950) |
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"A revolutionary vision of emancipation through sensuality, Un Chant d'Amour is a song of love both universal and eternal."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"'It is our duty as teenagers to piss off our parents,' Charlie says. The film succeeds only in pissing off the viewer."
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"The satire darkens not into sobering relevance but into wishy-washy 'relevance'"
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CinePassion |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Too emotionally dry to embrace but too ingenious to dismiss, Che is a fascinating, problematic film."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(1978) |
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"As far as comedic ingredients go, weed is not so much a surefire laugh-getter as it is a free-floating lubricant capable of setting off wicked complications."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1978) |
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"Whether or not this stoner classic is as funny as you remember, this edition is a munchies-included keeper for C&C fans."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Fond and funky elegy"
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CinePassion |
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(2005) |
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"Heavy with the sweat of a studio straining to snatch the kids back by throwing digi-crayons, potty jokes, and disco tunes at the lens"
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CinePassion |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Like an eager frequent flyer, Western paternalism changes destinations but not its baggage."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"Few recent films have so stunned me in segments, and so frustrated me as a whole"
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CinePassion |
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(1972) |
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"Clark accordingly avails himself of the best abysmal wisecracks, offhand surrealism, and decomposing mise-en-scène available"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1987) |
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"Even the most stock images vibrate"
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CinePassion |
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(1972) |
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"Bruce Lee at his fiercest"
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CinePassion |
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(1976) |
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"Fassbinder's grinning, glittering comedy"
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CinePassion |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"One of the most positive, affecting portrayals of queer romance in recent memory."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1983) |
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"Fifties fetishism here is not nostalgia but critique, the cultural residue that deforms consciousness"
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CinePassion |
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(1944) |
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"Dark elation, double lives, a variety of musical cathedrals"
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CinePassion |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Arnaud Desplechin doesn't so much direct movies as conduct marathons."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1967) |
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"The Straubs' methods ultimately attest to their demand of viewer participation in their search for new forms of expression."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(1967) |
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"A new kind of cinema envisioned as the anti-Amadeus. Rock on."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"So digitalized that the images start to suggest chintzy old superimpositions"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1980) |
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"Total cinema"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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