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Director Loses His Way in New Filmnew
Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm has more in common with the Germany that beget Jagermeister and Arnold Schwarzenegger than it does the Germany of black forests, wicked witches and runaway gingerbread men.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
08-25-2005 |
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Tags: Terry Gilliam, The Brothers Grimm
Film Digs Up Third World Corruptionnew
The Constant Gardener shows more concern over Africa's staggering health crisis than thrilling audiences with the derring-do of a James Bond or a Jason Bourne.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
08-25-2005 |
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Obsession and Entrapment Fuel Superb Filmnew
Scottish director David Mackenzie's morbid, erotic film has an economical, compressed style that covers a great deal of action and subtext in a tight space.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
08-18-2005 |
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Tags: asylum, David Mackenzie
Film Chronicles a Doomed Romance in Reversenew
A bitterly pragmatic argument for the complexity of relationships, 5x2 doesn't make any bones about the grim course it's on.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
08-18-2005 |
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Tags: François Ozon, 5x2
Feels Like the First Time Gettin' It Onnew
The 40 Year-Old Virgin celebrates the pleasures of the flesh as a healthy part of life while tweaking the juvenile hang-ups of both genders. OK, mostly juvenile male hang-ups, but women get teased, too.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
08-18-2005 |
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Film Causes Gag Reflex to Kick Innew
The Aristocrats takes a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of entertainment, but it isn't always the laugh riot you might expect. The filmmakers rely on attention-deficit editing and overlapping interviews until some jokesters' verbal rhythms are trashed.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
08-11-2005 |
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Tags: Paul Provenza, The Aristocrats
Nature Trumps Man in Grisly Flicknew
Director Werner Herzog views Timothy Treadwell's life through a fascinated but skeptical gaze. Drawing on 100 hours of Treadwell's own footage, as well as interviews, Herzog conducts a compelling autopsy on Treadwell's ideals and contradictions.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
08-11-2005 |
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Tags: Werner Herzog, Grizzly Man
Van Sant Goes Rambling Againnew
Last Days focuses not on the glamour and violent cataclysms of death-by-drug-addiction, but gives us the crushing banality and catatonic alienation of its Kurt Cobain-inspired hero, Blake.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
08-11-2005 |
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Tags: Gus Van Sant, Last Days
A Joyful Noisenew
Characters bleed, have sex, hang out in scuzzy rock clubs and grapple with ugly problems in this film with a Christian message.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
08-04-2005 |
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Tags: Denise Coates, Our Burden is Light
Times Change and So Does a Familynew
Sadness waits in the wings in almost every scene of the lovely, life-affirming Italian melodrama The Best of Youth.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
08-04-2005 |
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Less is Lessnew
In Broken Flowers, director Jim Jarmusch crafts the most unglamorous road movie imaginable.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
08-04-2005 |
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Tags: Broken Flowers, Jim Jarmusch
Southern Culture on the Skidsnew
Good ol' boys and local yokels bring stereotypes to life in Dukes of Hazzard. The TV series hardly strived for sophistication, but exactly how stupid should the movie be?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
08-04-2005 |
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Movie Awkwardly Blends Elements of Successful Flicksnew
Stealth seems like the bastard child of a formula-centric marketing department, not the product of a director or screenwriter.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Carlton Hargro |
07-28-2005 |
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Movie is Simple Tale That Speaks Volumesnew
At heart, Lila Says tells a simple story that takes few detours. Fortunately, the young leads and even Marseilles's old-world neighborhoods look so sumptuous that the film achieves a higher level of sensuality than the script alone would suggest.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-28-2005 |
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Tags: Lila Says, Ziad Doueiri
Can You Trade Thuggery for Life as a Concert Pianist?new
More than anything, what ruins The Beat That My Heart Skipped is the general flakiness of the story; a ballad of the sensitive guy trapped in a tough guy's world.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-28-2005 |
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