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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

Saturday, December 19, 2020

Jeanine Meerapfel's MY GERMAN FRIEND: See an excellent, undiscovered film from 2012

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It is possible that, despite the current pandemic's making the making of movies more difficult, the flip side of this is that a number o...
Thursday, December 17, 2020

Ryan Murphy and his well-chosen cast help THE PROM go on to bigger, glossier things

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There are those who say that Ryan Murphy (shown below), director of the new film version of the Broadway musical THE PROM  has de-charmed ...
Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Victor Kossakovsky's much-heralded but little-seen doc, THE BELOVS, comes to Film Forum

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A dog licks his master's face with a long, wet tongue -- adorable and, considering how long this goes on, just a little weird. Then we g...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

Nostalgia for the present in Taylor Morden and Zeke Kamm's doc, THE LAST BLOCKBUSTER

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What a sweet treat it is to view the new and quite lovely documentary, THE LAST BLOCKBUSTER , directed by Taylor Morden and written by Zeke...
Friday, December 11, 2020

"Parasite"-lite from South Korea: Kim Yong-Hoon's BEASTS CLAWING AT STRAWS

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Most of the characters in the new South Korean movie BEASTS CLAWING AT STRAWS are not just greedy-as-hell but dumb-as-they-come. The couple...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Massoud Bakhshi's YALDA, A NIGHT FOR FORGIVENESS offers a nasty new look at Iran as television, tradition and truth collide

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From its opening aerial view of what (I am guessing) must be Tehran, YALDA, A NIGHT FOR FORGIVENESS (among the clunkier movie titles of the...
Monday, December 7, 2020

Oscar-winner Juan José Campanella returns with a new must-see, THE WEASELS' TALE

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Delightful, dirty, old-fashion fun is given a few up-to-date twists in a movie that has -- particularly in these Covid-riven times -- just a...
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