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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

Friday, December 16, 2016

Luis Buñuel on Blu-ray with one of his best -- THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL

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An artist at work and very near (hell, maybe at ) the top of his form can be seen in THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL , the 1962 Mexican movie fr...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

Poet, politico, man and myth: Pablo Larraín's multi-faceted biopic/fantasy, NERUDA

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Older Americans of a progressive slant will be familiar with the Nobel-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda , I suspect. But unless they ar...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

The glorious highs -- and unfortunate lows -- of Damien Chazelle's LA LA LAND

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The opening number of LA LA LAND , as you've by now most likely heard, is a five-star wonder. It is almost as if that famous traffic...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

The Bushmen (and women) are back -- in Simon Stadler/Catenia Lermer's GHOSTLAND

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The very first scene of GHOSTLAND  -- African natives viewing an airplane -- a new documentary about the bush people of Namibia, may h...
Monday, December 12, 2016

Home-grown terrorism, French-style, in Nicolas Boukhrief's thriller, MADE IN FRANCE

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Although made in 2014 and released (in France) in 2015, the new thriller/melodrama MADE IN FRANCE , co-written (with Eric Besnard , of ...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

December Sunday Corner with Lee Liberman -- THE CROWN: Smoke and Mirrors

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"Oils and oaths, orbs and scepters,  symbol upon symbol, an unfathomable web  of arcane mystery and liturgy no clergyman or ...
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