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(1954) |
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"20,000 Leagues is a sublime story of isolation, of disparate masculine seclusion, akin to those found in such films as Jaws and The Thing."
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"Criticisms and rationality aside, each film in this set culminates in footage of one of Christo's completed projects, and in every case it’s austere and quietly beautiful."
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(2005) |
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"What purpose there is in evaluating advertisements for their propensity as art favors how they exhibit the symptoms of inflation, capitalism, and ephemeral material trends better than any other contemporary recorded media."
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(1963) |
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"8 1/2 is widely regarded as Federico Fellini’s masterpiece, though it is an abstract admittance of failure. (The film, however, has few faults it does not itself admit – a benefit of a film containing its own critic)."
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(1984) |
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"Here are characters that look like they are from a first generation music video, speak like they are in a work of serious science-fiction, and sound like a stepchild to Huey Lewis and the News."
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"The characters each look like they are from a first generation music video, speak like they are in a work of serious science-fiction, and sound like a stepchild to Huey Lewis and the News ..."
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(1966) |
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"Africa Addio affords some journalistic integrity, which is sacrificed, as per usual and at most every opportunity, to find graphic animal deaths and women."
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(1973) |
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"Depicted conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro is driven, pompous, and partially ignorant – traits mirrored in director Werner Herzog for leading his crew into identical endurances. His resulting work is a vision of rare audacity."
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(1988) |
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(1976) |
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"Assault on Precinct 13 is derived from the ’70s popular crime genre, largely composed of borrowed pieces, each polished and radiant."
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(1989) |
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"Part II incorporates both the staple features of the first film and, at its base, a more mature theme. The film is ridden with questionable violence, and contains an awkward moment of Oedipal frustration."
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(1973) |
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"Badlands is an arena for apathy, both in regard to the characters’ depictions and their subjective emotions."
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(2008) |
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"Its horror isn't anticipated because there's nothing about these people that justifies harm; they're just people, not pawns. But this, as with perception of what sort of film this is, isn't ultimately certain."
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(2000) |
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"Ultimately Battle Royale falls attempting to stand on its politics alone. Its redeeming triumph is that it is immensely entertaining – either as a teenage film or hefty slice of exploitation."
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(2008) |
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"That said, all art deserves biography, and great art deserves recognition."
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(1946) |
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"As Cocteau properly retains in his diary of the film’s making, Beauty and the Beast has the structure of a poem, its inherent ambiguity, moral narrative, and visual emphasis."
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(2001) |
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"A work of considerable ingenuity"
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(1993) |
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"It is worthy of being measured by its individual merits; however, only when viewed as the opening to Kieslowski’s “Three Colors” does it garner further meaning …"
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(1986) |
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"Even some fifteen years after the release of Blue Velvet its vision remains wildly adamant relative to the stride of other works of contemporary noir. There have been many films about suburban crime, but none as dangerously imposing as this."
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(1993) |
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"It is curious that Lynch, having taken so many visual cues from her father, has an inadequate grasp of this compassion. The paralyzing obsession that permeates many of her father’s works, on the other hand, she comprehends well."
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(1967) |
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"Director Seijun Suzuki melds eastern production values and western crime devices into a film with little inhibition and ample creativity."
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(1985) |
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"Hollywood is notoriously plagued by commercial incentive and a lack of art; Brazil is a rare success, particularly so because it is decidedly anti-commercial."
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(2000) |
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"The conclusion may be fairly obvious, but it’s largely irrelevant in comparison to how uniquely Bring it On characterizes its teens."
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(1984) |
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"The principle character is an embellished creation, and serves to exaggerate peoples’ intolerance – fundamentally, he is the most removed of Sayles’ characters."
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(2002) |
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"Brotherhood of the Wolf supplies enough to satisfy many tastes without overwhelming them. It is one of the most sporadically inspired films of recent memory; and I would say, prematurely, of all time."
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(2004) |
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"Despite its languid, almost hypnotic pacing, The Brown Bunny is exalted with enormous suspense."
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(1982) |
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"It’s Fitzcarraldo with affirmed and not sublime biography; in essence, the same film without the pretense of fiction."
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(1954) |
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"'Filmmaker' is a misrepresentative title, here, as Brakhage only marginally honors the gamut of filmmaking."
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(1974) |
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"Caged Heat is contractual exploitation, an example of Roger Corman’s trademark bargain filmmaking with obligated nudity and violence."
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(1979) |
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"Caligula boasts a sort of notoriety known to few films. It was a lavish accident: the marriage of legitimate film and smut."
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(1941) |
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"It is, as a critical benchmark, unavoidable."
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(1977) |
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"Viewing Close Encounters we are reduced to a childlike perception, overwhelmed by the luster and might of the vision before us."
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(1997) |
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"Resolutely not boring."
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(1989) |
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"This is a bitter pill, and it is difficult to swallow."
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(1978) |
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"Coup de Grâce is an ambiguously political film (the argument of its war is inherited, though neither side is defended exemplarily), in regard to both its war and sexual conflict."
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(1996) |
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"Crash is a violently rare exception to the continually careful stride of film, and few films have been made with such a conviction to such inherently controversial material."
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(1982) |
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"Tenebre is nearer to body of Argento’s filmography, and seems like an homage to his early gialli; in comparison it marks the extent of the director’s progressive evolution. Tenebre is among Argento’s best films."
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(1978) |
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"Dawn of the Dead relies upon satire, humor, and allegory. It is one of the more thematically ambitious horror films in history."
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(1978) |
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"Malick emphasizes both his characters' happiness and ignorance. This dilemma is acknowledged in the title, which implies that for Heaven to be existent so must Hell."
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(1975) |
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"From a technical perspective, the film is a masterwork; considering the unexpectedly engaging narrative, praise for Deep Red is heightened."
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(1988) |
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"It may seem, in measure, that watching this in lieu of Frosty or Rudolph violates a practice during a holiday known and based on custom. However true, there is a discernable heart in Die Hard."
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(1962) |
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"It is the most subversive jab at Mastrioanni’s chauvinist characters possible, circumstantial metaphysics in which the lecher is targeted by the very film he inhabits."
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(1989) |
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"Do the Right Thing operates to approach race frankly, as peoples’ interpretations of the climax become interwoven with their preconceptions of race and bigotry."
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(2001) |
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"A faithfully rendered head trip."
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(1963) |
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"It is noteworthy that a single film contains such a wealth of icons."
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(1991) |
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"Though not the most visceral of Greenaway’s films, it is a textbook art film, meticulously organized, and requisite viewing for obsessive-compulsives."
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(1970) |
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"The film is a veritable grab-bag of traits that may appeal to different viewers. As a whole, the film is likely to provide faults as well as triumphs."
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(1975) |
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"There is a profound philosophy at the base of Kasper Hauser: How does emotional growth occur, deprived of any foreign influence, sociological, familial or otherwise?"
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(1973) |
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"It is a meld of the decade’s most pronounced filmic conventions (the long forward zoom; scoring with disco-inspired funk; brief gratuitous nudity; the archetypal Afro)."
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"Eraserhead is a film that seems to require interpretation. Answers, however, are so distant that one wonders if they are even intended."
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