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Tag Archives: Barbet Schroeder
December 2019 Viewing Diary
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019; d. Marielle Heller) This is a really good film. Thoughtful and deep. I love Marielle Heller’s work so much and so psyched to see whatever it is she chooses to do next. The … Continue reading →
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Tagged action movies, Ann-Margret, Barbet Schroeder, Clara Bow, comedy, documentary, Dorothy Arzner, drama, Faye Dunaway, Frank Capra, Frank Sinatra, Greta Gerwig, horror, Joan Blondell, Joan Crawford, Joel McCrea, John Sturges, Louisa May Alcott, Lucille Ball, Martin Scorsese, Maureen O'Hara, musical, Nicole Kidman, Preston Sturges, Rosalind Russell, Sophia Takal, Stanley Kubrick, Steve McQueen, Supernatural, Tom Cruise, Tuesday Weld, women directors
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December 2018 Viewing Diary
Swimming with Men (2018; d. Oliver Parker) A rather slight little comedy about men forming a synchronized swimming team. I reviewed for Ebert. Zama (2018; d. Lucrecia Martel) One of the best films of the year (I saw it after … Continue reading →
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Tagged Anjelica Huston, Argentina, Barbet Schroeder, David Bowie, Dennis Hopper, documentary, Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley, England, Italy, Lars von Trier, Matt Dillon, Mexico, Natalie Portman, Nick Nolte, Nicolas Roeg, Orson Welles, Out of the Blue, Sandra Bullock, Tennessee Williams, What Happened Was, women directors
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Best Films (Released and Undistributed) of 2017: Film Comment
I voted in Film Comment’s critics’ poll for best of the year: released and undistributed (I love that they have that second category, for smaller films that may not have gotten distribution yet. I haven’t seen the majority of them, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Agnes Varda, Argentina, Austria, Barbet Schroeder, biopic, Brazil, Chile, China, coming of age, documentary, drama, Emily Dickinson, England, France, Garrett Hedlund, Germany, Greta Gerwig, historical drama, Isabelle Huppert, Kristen Stewart, Paul Thomas Anderson, Poland, romantic drama, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, women directors
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Under-Rated Movies #18: Murder by Numbers (2002); Dir. Barbet Schroeder
So under-rated as to be almost completely invisible, and never mentioned in this past Oscar season, when Sandra Bullock was so much discussed – Murder by Numbers has some truly stupid elements, a boring title, and a terrible ending (badly … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barbet Schroeder, crime movies, Ryan Gosling, Sandra Bullock, thrillers
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Barfly (1987): Gestures Make the Man
In Barfly, Mickey Rourke, as Henry, gives one of his best performances. It stands alone. It is a symphony of movement and gesture, of humor and pathos … and I remember at the time his performance being criticized as “over-the-top”. … Continue reading →
The Idi Amin theme continues
Idi Amin was involved in the making of Barbet Schroeder’s documentary and it was his own naivete and innocence (can a mass murderer be innocent? I would submit that they are the most dangerous kind) that let him believe that … Continue reading →
Idi Amin, Continued
The Idi Amin theme continues. AC took it up here. And here. And I went back to look through my main man Ryszard’s book The Shadow of the Sun for his chapter on Uganda. Here’s a bit of it:
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Tagged Barbet Schroeder, Idi Amin, psychopaths, Ryszard Kapuściński, The Shadow of the Sun, Uganda, war
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