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One Hundred Nails [2007] 1. Yummy-looking onion and rosemary pizza throughout.2. Italian women seem to like hunky men with long curly hair.3. It’s a pleasant journey but doesn’t really end up anywhere. But I still enjoyed it.

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The Man from London [2007] 1. Tarr’s technique is still dazzling, but without any characters that are recognizably human it verges on being just a hollow exercise.2. Tilda Swinton, dubbed into Hungarian, emoting deeply: all for naught.3. Best sequence: the … Continue reading →

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I hung out with Zach last night (he’s visiting from NYC) and I took him up on his offer to “go somewhere far away” in his rental car. We drove all the way out to Riverside (next to Berwyn I … Continue reading →

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3 things about Brett Morgan’s CHICAGO 10

Chicago 10 [2007] 1. Filmmaker Brett Morgan, incredibly immodest during the Q & A: “I don’t think there’s ever really been a film like this before.” Uh huh, sure thing Mr. Morgan. 2. That was Roy Scheider’s voice? Really? 3. … Continue reading →

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Heartbeat Detector [2007] 1. Weird title. The actual title in French is “The Human Question” (based on an novel of the same name). I don’t care for that title either.2. A line of corporate execs all lined up together at … Continue reading →

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You, the Living [2007]  1. Looking out the window of house, realizing the scenery is moving, realizing the house is actually a train. It just looks like a house.2. Everyone pausing from their work to look up at the sky. … Continue reading →

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A Walk Into the Sea [2007]  1. We will probably never finish compiling a list of all known Warhol associates. They just keep coming out of the woodwork.2. Paul Morrissey being his usual egotistical, know-it-all self. He seems to contradict … Continue reading →

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 I’ve seen 9 movies since Friday. I’m in a sort of exhausted dream-like state that’s very close to happiness.

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Thunderball [1965] 1. The vibrato of Tom Jones has never been so mesmerizing. 2. Bond isn’t as stupid or careless as he is in Goldfinger, but he’s more sexist. 3. Motifs that will reappear later in other 007 movies: sharks, … Continue reading →

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3 things about Esteban Sapir’s THE AERIAL

The Aerial [2007] 1. Snow as a beautiful visual shorthand for film grain. 2. Spirals, electricity, shadows, eyes, mouths. 3. As if I needed more proof: along with The Science of Sleep, more concrete evidence that the best of imaginations … Continue reading →

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