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Technicolor Cowboy Recalling a Thai tradition you don't remember and Spaghetti Westerns you do, Sasanatieng shocks with brilliant, brave hues
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January 02, 2007
Nothing is too crazed, corny, or freakishly florid for Tears of the Black Tiger. The debut of writer-director Wisit Sasanatieng is a delightfully... More>>
Truth Is For Sissies Billy Wilder's hard-boiled muckracker can't be bothered with the facts in this strikingly prescient diatribe
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January 02, 2007
Ace in the Hole greets the new movie year like a punch in the gut, a kick in the nuts, a bucket of bile flung in the face. Hello, nasty! And... More>>
Matters of Life, Death, and Art From shivah to Shoah, the 16th annual Jewish film fest doesn't shy away from the big questions
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January 02, 2007
What can one say about the current state of the Jewish people, or of that benighted category, "Jewish Cinema" (which most would agree includes... More>>
Accidental Tourists Doc treats Sudanese lost boys as feel-good fodder, ignoring their plight and their history
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January 02, 2007
Having endured civil war, separation from their families, hunger, and dehydration during a thousand-mile trek through sub-Saharan Africa, and 10... More>>
This Is Their Brain On Drugs
Cassavetes Jr. and Justin "in a box" Timberlake team up for real-life tale of killer potheads
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January 02, 2007
Nick Cassavetes's Alpha Dog is based on a real-life story that's still waiting for its ending: In 2000, a gang of SoCal kids kidnapped and... More>>
The Natural
Marking the recent passing of the great Swedish realist "cameraman," MOMA pays tribute
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January 02, 2007
Although Sven Nykvist, who died last year, worked with directors as renowned as Louis Malle, Woody Allen, and Andrei Tarkovsky, for all the world... More>>
'Freedom Writers'
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January 02, 2007
Neither Half Nelson nor all bad, this white- teacher-uplifts-poor-kids- of-color drama aims to favor the students' stories, which are based on... More>>
Portraits of Two Iconoclastic Women
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January 02, 2007
Film Forum's pairing of these two documentaries— Kiki Smith: Squatting the Palace and Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World—is an... More>>
'Ever Since the World Ended'
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January 02, 2007
Filmmakers Calum Grant and Joshua Atesh Litle embrace their budgetary limitations, conveying life after a devastating plague through the eyes of... More>>
'Arthur and the Invisibles'
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January 02, 2007
The wildly uneven French writer-director- producer Luc Besson has a fondness for life outside the margins: the neon-lit labyrinths of the Paris... More>>
'Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story'
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January 02, 2007
A Slamdance champ, Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story earned raves from Western critics for sticking to the busy aesthetic of a Dateline... More>>
V For Violence From Al Basrah to the AMC, 2006 meant war
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December 26, 2006
We may be living in a national Green Zone, but for all the pious post–9-11 bushwa about kinder, gentler, more civil modes of entertainment,... More>>
Lee's Top 10
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December 26, 2006
All good news in 2006 was tainted by the evaporation of Wellspring, the art-house distribution company whose adventurous acquisitions proved an... More>>
Scandal Lite Claude Chabrol takes it easy on the Enron of France
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December 26, 2006
The first—and maybe the best—joke in Claude Chabrol's Comedy of Power comes before the credits: "Any resemblance to persons living or... More>>
Hoberman's Top 10
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December 26, 2006
A curious form of journalism, film reviewing is highly topical yet essentially timeless. It consists of reporting week after week on out-of-body... More>>
Orgy of Sequels to Climax in 2007 Will the public get off, or just the studios?
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December 26, 2006
It's official: Hollywood has run out of original ideas. If you thought 2006 was bad, just wait. In 2007 the studios will give up on birthing... More>>
Iraq's Cinema of Longing A conversation with director James Longley
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December 26, 2006
James Longley's Iraq in Fragments is a one-man production of startling audacity and aesthetic provocation. It isn't just that Longley worked... More>>
Taking the Long View Children of Men and the value of an unedited shot
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December 26, 2006
A car speeds down a forest road, only to be surrounded in an instant by armed crazies who materialize from the nearby woods. In the visual... More>>
Reluctant Hero A legend, yes, but Clint Eastwood's not done yet
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December 26, 2006
'Will I ride off into the sunset? Maybe. Will I be dragged off kicking and screaming? Probably." That's what Clint Eastwood told me back in 2004,... More>>
It's Soooo High School
And that's a compliment to Rian Johnson's teen detective noir
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December 26, 2006
Dashiell Hammett goes to high school—the perfect studio pitch. Yet after wowing 'em at the film fests, Rian Johnson's knockout debut as... More>>
Family Ties
For Argentine director Daniel Burman, life is a movie
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December 26, 2006
Made when he was a stripling of 24, Argentine filmmaker Daniel Burman's first feature, A Chrysanthemum Bursts in Cincoesquinas, was a violent... More>>
East Asia, Exposed
Never one to blink, documentarian Ellen Bruno continues her mission
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December 26, 2006
"Why are you filming so much of me?" a woman in a Nepalese leper colony asks of documentarian Ellen Bruno. That question, and all the ethical... More>>
The Future is Now Mike Judge's much ballyhooed but rarely seen Idiocracy—coming soon to your idiot box!
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December 26, 2006
The Stupid Movie Controversy of 2006 draws to a close this week with the DVD release of Idiocracy, the orphaned brainchild of writer-director... More>>
Beyond Penguins One doc series, two months, 23 critics, war, grizzlies, and the Dixie Chicks
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December 26, 2006
Since the New York Film Critics Circle began its annual film retrospective series at the Museum of the Moving Image eight years ago, documentary... More>>
'Black Christmas'
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December 26, 2006
As with 2006's deviled-ham rehashing of The Omen, this stocking-snuffer remake of Bob Clark's nasty, unusually effective 1974 shocker seems to... More>>
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