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Melancholia opens with a series of dramatically lit, startling dream-like images: falling birds rain during the day, a collapsing horse falls painfully slow in the dark. Wrapped in a wedding dress, Kirsten Dunst floats down a stream like a waking Ophelia.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
12-07-2011 |
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Michelle Williams leaves everyone else in her dust as Marilyn Monroenew
Michelle Williams deserves her vehicle; she's earned the right to put herself in the sweaty hands of cigar-chomping moguls with the power to bully esteemed actors and directors into hopping aboard the Oscar Express, wobbly wheels though it may be resting on.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
12-03-2011 |
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Tags: My Week With Marilyn, Simon Curtis
Scorsese's first children's adventure comes from his own inner childnew
Trains and the cinema go together like horses and cave paintings. As soon as humans were able to show motion, we chose to show trains. And from our first interaction with locomotives on celluloid — the Lumiére Brothers' Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat in 1895, which, perhaps apocryphally, made audiences jump out of their seats in fear — until this moment, with Martin Scorsese's 3-D fantasy Hugo, there have been dreamers and keepers of the dream.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
12-02-2011 |
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Film Review: Like Crazynew
Anton Yelchin (Star Trek) and newcomer Felicity Jones play Jacob and Anna, two attractive college kids who meet during class and immediately fall head over heels in love.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
11-28-2011 |
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The Muppets Charms With Nostalgia, but Feels Far From Freshnew
After 12 years without a theatrical release, The Muppets is in many ways both a charming return to form and a surprising letdown.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
11-22-2011 |
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Martha Marcy May Marlene is Escapism at its Most Unnervingnew
Check your pulse if you don’t feel a chill winding between your vertebra during a scene in Martha Marcy May Marlene where Academy Award-nominated actor John Hawkes (Winter’s Bone), playing cult leader Patrick, serenades a commune of vulnerable lost souls with “Marcy’s Song,” by the late folk musician Jackson C. Frank.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
11-17-2011 |
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Sizing up the 20th Century with the Cross-dressing Head of the FBInew
It's no secret these days that J. Edgar Hoover was a real bastard. But back in the day he was a paragon of American idealism and fortitude.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
11-17-2011 |
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The Skin I Live In (La Piel que Habito)new
"At age 50," wrote George Orwell, "every man has the face he deserves." But what if a man — or woman — of any age is forced to undergo plastic surgery?
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
11-17-2011 |
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Paranoid Visions of the Apocalypsenew
Fresh rain oozing with yellow oil, dead birds plummeting from the sky, and the sudden apparition of a tornado funnel on a sunshiny day — Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) is haunted by visions that point either to imminent disaster or else to incipient mental illness. "Is anyone seeing this?"
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
11-10-2011 |
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Tower Heist Gives Eddie Murphy a Comedy Vehicle that Doesn't Crash and Burnnew
Can anyone remember the last time comedian Eddie Murphy was actually funny? No, voicing an animated donkey with a hankering for waffles doesn't count.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
11-10-2011 |
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Turner Classic Movies Presents West Side Story 50th Anniversary Eventnew
Three familiar piercing whistles and an abstract skyline herald the beginning of this modern Romeo and Juliet masterpiece.
San Antonio Current |
Anne Vanzant |
11-10-2011 |
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Margin Call elevates financial crisis drama above the blusternew
The 2008 financial collapse was so large in scale, and so unfathomable to most, that it practically begged for Hollywood’s blustery mythmaking.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
11-03-2011 |
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Johnny Depp Delivers a Tame Origin Story for a Gonzo Legendnew
The Rum Diary, a freewheeling tropical cocktail based on Hunter S. Thompson’s long-unpublished novel of the same name, bears an infectious sense of liberation.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
11-03-2011 |
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The Director of Independence Day is a Natural Fit for Elizabethan Intriguenew
Director Roland Emmerich’s new film opens and closes at a modern theater. The curtain draws and, before a polite crowd dressed in their Sunday best, a narrator sets the scene.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
11-03-2011 |
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Pa Negre (Black Bread)new
This is the movie that nearly swept the Goya Awards (Spain’s Oscar), and the first film to represent Spain in the race for Best Foreign Film Oscar in 2012 that is not spoken in Spanish (the original is in Catalan, but San Antonians will see a version dubbed into Spanish with English subtitles).
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
10-27-2011 |
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