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‘The Best Man Holiday’
Why leave your living room?
Today you can rent any movie right from your living room to stream on your giant flat-screen TV. But watching this piece of feel-good holiday fluff with a very appreciative audience made me remember the benefits of the movie theater experience.
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Léger’s ‘Ballet Mécanique’ at Art Museum
Léger and Antheil, together at last
Fernand Léger’s experimental 1924 film was too short for Georges Antheil’s avant-garde musical score. Now the two have been joined together at last, to visually stunning and aurally exciting effect.
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Brian Percival’s ‘The Book Thief’
Horrible events in pastel colors
The Book Thief paints the horrors of Nazi Germany in fairy tale pastels— which may be the only way today’s generations can begin to make sense of the unthinkable.
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‘Thor: The Dark World’
Between superhero and myth
For 50 years, Marvel Comics’ Thor character has straddled the uneasy divide between the fantastic and the mundane. The latest installment of Thor’s cinematic franchise is a mixed bag but does a decent job of balancing the two genres.
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More lessons from the Cape May Film Festival
Cutting students some slack
Jackie Atkins dismissed the student work at the Cape May Film Festival as not worth watching. That perspective ignores the learning curve that all artists experience.
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Lessons from the Cape May Film Festival
Those who can, do; those who can’t, attend film schools
Why do America’s many film schools produce so few good movies? And why are the best films made by school dropouts with real-world experience? To ask the question is to answer it.
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Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Gravity’ (2nd review)
One very, very lonely woman
Director Alfonso Cuarón has paired the most elemental plot I’ve ever seen with visuals you must experience in the theater to believe.
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Alfonso Cuarón’s 'Gravity' (1st review)
Exploring outer space?
First, check your brains at the door
Like most Hollywood films about outer space, Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity gives the universe its due as a boundless, forbidding zone of inhospitable horror. But it fails to suggest anything thoughtful about the raison d’être for exploring space.
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Richard Curtis’s 'About Time'
Four weddings and a waste of time
For a refreshing change, the recently concluded New York Film Festival offered more lighthearted cinema this year. But Richard Curtis’s About Time is downright scatterbrained.
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The magic of ‘Singin’ in the Rain’
Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, and the way we were
For one night, Singing’ in the Rain transformed my ordinary childhood into something wonderful. It’s still performing the same function for my adulthood.
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