Tamara Drewe (Frears, 2010)
Stephen Frears's Tamara Drewe is essentially a Restoration sex comedy set in the English countryside.
Author: kenmorefield
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The Illusionist (Chomet, 2010)
So The Illusionist himself could be seen as a symbol of the traditional animator seeing his (or her) craft become a lost art.
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Of Gods and Men (Beauvois, 2010)
I was glad that I saw Xavier Beauvois’s Of Gods and Men on the same day of the Toronto International Film Festival in which I saw Miral. The films, perhaps,… Continue reading "Of Gods and Men (Beauvois, 2010)"
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Never Let Me Go (Romanek, 2010)
I will cop to saying that Ishiguro is on my short list of greatest living writers in English and that Remains of the Day (also based on an Ishiguro novel) is one of my two or three all time favorite novel to film adaptations, so I'm not without baggage of my own in this debate.
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Jucy (Alston, 2010)
I'm a little suspicious, though, about people who make films about their own friendships.
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The Way (Estevez, 2010)
There's not a whole lot about Emilio Estevez's The Way that doesn't ring true. Given the fact that the film tackles some of life's deepest emotions and largest themes--grief, love, faith, community--that's quite a compliment.
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Inside Job (Ferguson, 2010)
A repeated hypothesis of Ferguson and his team was that such chutzpah comes from sustained periods of never being challenged--even as to obvious, verifiable facts--once one has been granted "inside" or "expert" status.
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Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho (Rebello, 1990)
Perhaps it is anathema for me to say, being an academic, but there is something refreshing about reading a film book that eschews theory, that is interested in documenting the production history of a beloved film rather than deconstructing it and is more interested in telling us what the people who made the film said than it is in explaining what they (must have) meant.
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Takers (Luessenhop, 2010)
If it invites but doesn't quite earn comparisons to Michael Mann's Heat, well, at least it has its sights set in the right direction.
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The Switch (Gordon & Speck, 2010)
While I am on the subject of The Switch not really being a romantic comedy and not really being a Jenifer Aniston film, I may as well go ahead an just say that I think this film has the single worst movie poster I can remember.