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The Mirror and the Lamp
If You're Feeling Sinister
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July 08, 2003
At the close of Rocco and His Brothers, the youngest, Luca, runs his hand along a row of posters touting Rocco's recent boxing triumph, all... More>>
Whiskey and Wry Finnish Master of the Sardonic
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July 08, 2003
Aki Kaurismäki—Finnish auteur, deadpan provocateur, renowned boozician, last of the red-hot existential modernists—has seen his... More>>
French Maid It's Not Easy Being Clean
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July 08, 2003
For someone living in disarray, a housekeeper can provide more than a simple return to order. When the ashtrays are finally emptied, the bed... More>>
Plunder Boys
Booty Is Truth, Truth Booty
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July 08, 2003
"Take what ye can—give nothing back!" declare some scurvy wags in Gore Verbinski's convoluted but diverting Pirates of the Caribbean—a... More>>
The Outside Chance Lust for Life
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July 08, 2003
A street-fighting, slum-dwelling male Josephine Baker wannabe, a virginal yeshiva student obsessed with a teenage Ukrainian hooker, a dwarf... More>>
Winged Migration Angels in the Architecture
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July 08, 2003
As you may have noticed, the much touted '90s "angel craze" is still going strong in the '00s. And venturing beyond Charlie's benign... More>>
No Man's Language
WWII Love in Lapland
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July 08, 2003
A far cry from the proletarian dilapidation on display at BAM's current Aki Kaurismäki retro, the Finland of The Cuckoo practically gleams... More>>
Film
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July 08, 2003
I Capture the Castle Directed by Tim Fywell Samuel Goldwyn, opens July 11, at Chelsea Cinemas and Cinema 2 In medieval England, invaders used to... More>>
Rio Men Have Curves Brazil's Working-Class Heroes
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July 01, 2003
Released on the heels of City of God, Karim Aïnouz's first feature, Madame Satã, is likewise a gritty, sweaty slice of history set in... More>>
Behind the Musicals
The Need for Freed
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July 01, 2003
The baffling Oscar triumph of Chicago might represent a flat-footed step toward a broader studio confidence in the musical. But what if the gates... More>>
Monsters Ink
The Reflecting Skin
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July 01, 2003
If it didn't so obviously borrow from other epidermally obsessed movies, namely The Silence of the Lambs and Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book,... More>>
Anarchy Then and Now The Revolution Is Televised
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July 01, 2003
So far as mental fireworks go, the Fourth of July weekend is unlikely to offer anything more spectacular than Peter Watkins's masterpiece La... More>>
They're Back Do Androids Dream of Electric Sequels?
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July 01, 2003
"The future has not been written . . . " the young narrator solemnly muses at the beginning of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. That's true... More>>
Dive, She Said Thicker Than Water
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July 01, 2003
In François Ozon's films—no less than in, say, Virginia Woolf or Tsai Ming-liang—water is a symbol of the ungovernable,... More>>
Arabian Noughts
Sinbad and the Order of the Phoenix
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July 01, 2003
What a difference 45 years makes. In The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), the first film given over to Ray Harryhausen's nightmare menagerie of... More>>
Reich and Wrong
The Pastor's Tools
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June 24, 2003
Controversy continues to swirl around the Christian church's tacit collusion in the crimes of the Holocaust. Now along comes Bonhoeffer, Martin... More>>
Time to Get Ill Afflicted Zombies and Zen Acrobats
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June 24, 2003
To every creatively frozen, summer-movie ice age comes a little heat lightning, and these gray dog days it's Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later. On one... More>>
The Sum of All Fears Nuclear Brinkmanship, Suicide Attacks, and Driver's-Ed Scares
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June 24, 2003
There's a classroom "education film" included in the automobile-safety compilation Hell's Highway (see below) that boldly telegraphs its intent... More>>
Idol Minds We Go Together
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June 24, 2003
Like American Idol itself, From Justin to Kelly intends to flout coastal-elite notions of what the breadbasket calls entertainment. With... More>>
Micro Softies
Spanking the Mouse
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June 24, 2003
On_Line marks a milestone of sorts in the evolution of the masturbatory genre one might call the Sundance rom-com—not for the techno-tweaks... More>>
Too Fast, Too Furious A Pair of Documentaries Grapple With Fanaticism and Forgiveness
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June 24, 2003
It set off a shock wave, this forgiveness. Near the beginning of My Terrorist, filmmaker Yulie Cohen Gerstel appears on Israeli television to... More>>
The Sound of Sex
A Little Night Magic
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June 24, 2003
Claire Denis's sensuous movies are less talk than texture. Storytelling is confidently subverbal, almost artisanal, distilled to elemental acts... More>>
One-Night Stands Gridlock in Paris, Gunfights in L.A.
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June 17, 2003
The unexpected brief encounter that Claire Denis takes as her subject in Friday Night is not founded on the thrill of anonymous sex but something... More>>
Beasts of Burden Incredible Bulks in Parent Traps
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June 17, 2003
It's not so easy being green—that much we know. Striving with science-nerd earnestness to be more than merely a summer box-office... More>>
Lost and Bound
There Is No Quarter
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June 17, 2003
Week two of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival features several documentaries that address the plight of refugees. In Asylum, a... More>>
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