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Movie criticism (mostly foreign films, documentaries and independents: big Hollywood product hardly needs more marketing), very occasional interviews from James van Maanen, now 80 years old, who began his late-career movie reviewing for GreenCine, then took the big blog step over a decade ago. He covers new movies, video releases, and occasional streaming choices. You can reach him at JamesvanMaanen@gmail.com

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Corneliu Porumboiu's POLICE, ADJECTIVE gets a theatrical/On-Demand run

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A very good, very subtle, and finally very powerful movie, POLICE, ADJECTIVE by Romanian filmmaker Corneliu Porumboiu (shown below), which...
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Monday, December 21, 2009

SCN: Isona Passola's CATALONIA VS SPAIN -- plus a quick post-series round-up

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TrustMovies would not have imagined that a documentary about the conflict between Spain and one of her "nation-states," Catalonia...
Sunday, December 20, 2009

Let’s Go to Prison! Trapero's LION'S DEN, Edel's THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX

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Two fascinating movies – fascinating especially because they will seem so for- eign to most Ameri- can eyes – came to DVD two weeks back and...
Saturday, December 19, 2009

THE SHAME, David Planell's parenting film, winds down Spanish Cinema Now

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Parenting, respon- sibility, guilt and growing up are among the several themes tackled by one of the best entries in this year's FSLC r...
Friday, December 18, 2009

SCN: In THE DANCER AND THE THIEF Fernando Trueba mixes genres...

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...and falls on his face. But very artistically: This is a mighty pretty movie. THE DANCER AND THE THIEF ( El baile de la Victoria ) is a...
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SCN: Cesc Gay's V.O.S., the "movie-movie" rom-com about the making of a rom-com

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There have been plenty of movies made about movies and movie-making, some of which play with what's real and what's not, fracturing...

Blunt's sharp as THE YOUNG VICTORIA in Jean-Marc Valée's intelligent film

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How good are Emily Blunt in the title role and Rupert Friend as the German royal fellow who quietly becomes indispensable to her in THE YO...
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