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)"
Category: Film Festivals
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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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The Disappearance of Alice Creed (Blakeson, 2009)
The Disappearance of Alice Creed has all the ingredients of a horror-porn exploitation film, but its genius lies in withholding enough information from us that while we think we know what we are watching, we aren't entirely sure.
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1More Podcast — Episode 3
Kenneth R. Morefield and Katherine Richards podcast from the 2010 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.
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My Perestroika (Hessman, 2010)
These people, incidentally just as my own parents, were Lenin’s Pioneers growing up behind the Iron Curtain, who witnessed the breakdown of the USSR and were shocked by the instability of their country, their lives, and the concept of truth itself.
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Stonewall Uprising (Davis & Heilbroner, 2010)
If there was one moving, indelible image that I took away from the film, it wasn't anything said by the participants proudly remembering when they finally stood up to the police but from the police officer who in the twilight of life looks back with regret on making them do it: "You knew you could ruin [the people you arrested] for life [...] you felt bad..."
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Family Affair (Colvard, 2010)
One in four women over the age of eighteen has experienced some form of sexual abuse.