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I love short lists and Academy Awards took a cleaver and shortened their Best Short Animation list from 37 to 10. My favorite is The Cat Piano, an eight-minute Aussie short narrated by Nick Cave. In Contention website introduced me to this...
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An Education (2009): 8.310
We have all seen this story before. A young inexperienced girl meets an attractive older man who seems to have everything. He is not what he seems and her world comes crashing down but through all of it she has...
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The variety of marketing materials that have appeared for Captain Abu Raeds almost two year pilgrimage about the festivals and cinemas of the globe can make for some confusing reading. Is it the first Independent Jordanian film? Or is it the...
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Tonight Jimmy welcomes Twilights leading lady Kristen Stewart. After last nights appearance on Jay Leno Taylor Lautner mentioned that Kristen has quite a throwing arm. Tonight- Jimmy tests her skills in part three of the interview! In...
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John Boormans most recent film, The Tigers Tail, is an uneven study of the eternally fascinating quest for identity. The title itself is a metaphor for the precarious state of Ireland as an economic entity, one false move away from losing its grip...
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Directed by:- Lone Scherfig.
Starring:- Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Olivia Williams.
Based on the memoirs of make up artist Lynne Barber, An Education follows the life of a young girl growing up in London in the 1960's....
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An Education (Scherfig, 2009)
Written November 16, 2009
Theres a scene in An Education where Jennys, played by Carey Mulligan, long hair is pinned up and her plain Jane clothes are swapped for an elegant short black dress. In this moment,...
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The Damned United (2009): 5.110
The Damned United focuses on the period of time when seminal football (soccer in American terms) manager Brian Clough managed Leeds United, taking over from rival manager Don Revie. As...
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Jeff Bridges plays Bad Blake as a broken-down, hard-living country music singer. Hes been married way too many times, had far too many years on the road and one too many drinks, too many times. Still, Bad reaches out for salvation with the...
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Adoration (2009): 510
Atom Egoyans latest film explores some post 911 issues as well as the idea of stories and the lines between fiction and reality. Forgive this review. I watched this about 5 days ago and have seen Antichrist since then...
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A spirited, humourous and ultimately moving coming-of-age story from New Zealand, Harold Brodies The Map Reader evokes vivid memories of that difficult transition as we slowly evolve from carefree teenagers into adults - often before we're quite...
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ANN MARY & HER TWO THANKSGIVINGS
BY MARY E. WILKINS
"Grandma."
"What is it, child?"
"You goin' to put that cup-cake into the pan to bake it now, grandma?"
"Yes; I guess so. It's beat 'bout enough."
"You ain't put in a mite of...
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Visiting an Australian cinema in recent times, you almost certainly would have witnessed the solemn adverts blaming piracy for a decline in the local film industry. Perhaps the...
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Life must have been testing for Romanians under the reign of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. In re-envisioning that blighted era of his countrys history, talented young filmmaker Cristian Mungiu decided to tell a simple but striking tale of two female...
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And When Did You Last See Your Father? is a well constructed emotional film highlighting the relationship between a father and son. Based on poet and author Blake Morrison's real life relationship with his dad, it represents the complexities, I am...
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A beautiful film that is simple but tells a deep story about Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) marriage with his wife Sofya (Helen Mirren) in its final years. James McAvoy also stars as a young man who works for the couple and Paul Giamatti...
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Dodsworth (Wyler, 1936)
Dodsworth, released in 1936, is a surprisingly powerful and incredibly realistic marital drama. Walter Huston plays the titular character, Sam Dodsworth. Hes worked his entire life and has just sold his business. ...
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Through four feature films, writerdirector James Gray comes closest to disappointment in his third, 2007s We Own the Night. Were in Brooklyn, New York, 1988, and it feels like weve been here before, exploring two sides of the same coin.
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Kitty Foyle (1940): 5.910
I was expecting to like this film more than I actually did which is disappointing. Maybe it is because a lot of the film has not aged well and comes off as very dated. There is another melodrama I have recently...
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I recall vividly the book written by Maurice Sendak from my childhood and therefore was very keen to see how the movie played out. I actually attended this movie as part of a school excursion in order to supervise my kindergarten aged daughter and...
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