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Daily Archives: January 17, 2024
Movie Review: Racism and AntiSemitism meet their “Origin” — Caste
“Origin” is an important film, a movie that attempts to tie — in intellectual terms — the oppression and enslavement of Africans in the Americas with the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany and the immobility of India’s “untouchable” “caste” … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: A Young German Woman is kidnapped and trapped in Der “Trunk”
With only her fading cell phone and an emergency operator to save her. Jan. 26, we’ll see how this turns out.
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Another Productive Day ruined by Indee.TV
There are few things a working critic dreads more these days than the prospect of reviewing a two hour long+ movie on the Yugo of movie streaming providers, Indee.TV. I have two movies to get through today, both falling on … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Lost Souls cling together in “The Breaking Ice”
Chinese-Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen lets us in on his favorite films from film school with “The Breaking Ice,” a Chinese love triangle redolent in images, themes and situations of The French New Wave. There are references to Truffaut’s “Jules et … Continue reading
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