Film/TV
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Cate Shortland's 'Lore': Germany, year zero
Postwar Germany as a Grimm's fairy tale
Cate Shortland's Lore deals with a moment that Germany— and modern Europe generally— would prefer to forget: the immediate aftermath of the Nazi collapse. Its heroine is a 14-year-old girl who must lead her four younger siblings to safety in a world where rules have ceased to exist.
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6 minute read
MOVE: A documentary film, at last
The city that bombed itself, and then suffered amnesia
MOVE. A documentary film directed by Ben Garry, Ryan McKenna, and Matt Sullivan. Screened March 25, 2013 at Earle Mack School of Law, Drexel University.
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6 minute read
Christian Petzold's "Barbara'
Escape from paradise
Barbara. A film directed by Christian Petzold. At Ritz Five, 214 Walnut St. (215) 925-7900 or www.movieclock.com.
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5 minute read
"American Winter' and "A Place at the Table'
There but for the grace of God, or: Can documentaries change the world?
How do you entice people to think about things they'd rather not think about? Two recent documentaries take unflinching looks at poverty and hunger in America,
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Dror Moreh's 'The Gatekeepers'
Can power speak truth?
The Gatekeepers. A film directed by Dror Moreh. For Philadelphia area show times, click here.
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9 minute read
Michael Haneke's 'Amour': Love and death
Facing the end
An elderly French couple faces mortality with courage and devotion in a game that can't be won but does reveal both the tragedy and the honor of the human condition. With Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant in restrained but almost unbearably poignant performances.
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7 minute read
Elem Klimov's "Come and See'
The greatest anti-war film (and also the least watchable)
Elem Klimov's searing account of the genocidal massacres by Nazi troops in Byelorussia in 1943 has been called the greatest anti-war film ever made. But Come and See is almost beyond critical categories. No one who does see it will ever forget it.
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9 minute read
"Hyde Park on Hudson' (2nd review)
The road to war, and the only adult in the room
King George's visit to Franklin D. Roosevelt on the eve of World War II is a subject worth exploring, but Roger Michell's Hyde Park on Hudson bites off more history and a little more drama than it can chew.
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8 minute read
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Gus Van Sant's "Promised Land'
Frack, baby, frack
Promised Land pits bad natural gas interests against the true grit of Pennsylvania townsfolk, and guess who wins— in Hollywood, I mean, not real life.
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6 minute read
Real life: Kenneth Lonergan's 'Margaret'
The unpredictable messiness of real life
Contrary to what you see in most movies and plays, “happy endings” last at best for a few days, and more likely a few hours. Kenneth Lonergan's haunting Margaret is that rare film that captures reality with gripping accuracy— if you can find it.
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