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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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Why ‘Gone With the Wind’ still works for me
My soul sister, Scarlett O'Hara
What I crave, and still get, from Gone With the Wind, is escape— the sort that often seems to elude me at age 58, when my critical facilities often trump my pleasure centers.
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In defense of Woody Allen (a response)
Our modern Chekhov: In defense of Woody Allen
Contrary to what BSR’s editor thinks, Woody Allen is a consistent filmmaker. His writing distinguishes itself with clearly defined, recurring themes that run throughout his work, that he keeps on investigating, developing, rearticulating, refining.
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"The World's End': 40-something reunion
The old gang of mine meets the Stepford wives
In this appealing comedy, five ex-buddies in their 40s try to rekindle their youthful friendship, only to find that even a robot/alien invasion can't heal their fundamental differences.
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Amanda Ripley's "Smartest Kids in the World'
On divorcing sports from education: If Finland and Korea can do it…
Sports may build character, but Amanda Ripley's exploration of the world's top-ranking school systems indicate schools should concentrate on their primary purpose.
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