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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

Monday, October 27, 2014

Blu-ray/DVDebut -- John Carney's music-themed BEGIN AGAIN: Lightning can indeed strike twice!

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When Once hit theaters and then home video back in 2007, it seemed a revelation: a low-keyed movie about music and a relationship that ...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

With MOEBIUS and its family that practices penectomy, Kim Ki-duk goes uber-transgressive

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Penectomy ? That's the official term for penis removal. (And, yes, I had to search Google to find out if there was even a word for ...

Icarus Films' ON STRIKE! offer class struggle via shorts by Chris Marker & The Medvedkin Group

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Boy, do we need it now. Watching ON STRIKE! --  the new release from Icarus Films composed of two short films (and one audio critique)...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

Blu-ray/DVDebut: James Franco & Kate Hudson in Henrik Ruben Genz's thriller, GOOD PEOPLE

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You might imagine that the combination of housing, home construction, the economic downturn, fertility, morality, robbery and murder w...
Friday, October 24, 2014

The Andrews' (Lau and Loo) ode to Chinatown gangs, REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS

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Crazily piling into 94 minutes what ought to have been a multi-chapter saga for maybe cable television (or at the very least a two-and-o...

Swedish Oscar Bait, 2014: Ruben Östlund's crystalline and unsettling FORCE MAJEURE

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One of the most interesting films of this past year and, in its way, one of the most daring explorations of "manhood" and its ...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

With sad,sweet,funny swan song LIFE OF RILEY we wave good-bye to a French new-waver

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Watching Alain Resnais ' newest -- and final -- film, LIFE OF RILEY  can't help but be a sad experience for those of us who love...
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