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Bad Educationnew
Notes on a Scandal serves up a slick catfight.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
01-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Notes on a Scandal, Richard Eyre
Gilded Cagenew
Curse of the Golden Flower completes Zhang Yimou's trilogy.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-17-2007 |
Reviews
Iraq 'n' Rollnew
Carnahan discusses the subtext of Smokin' Aces.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
01-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Joe Carnahan, Smokin' Aces
Soderbergh Goes Vintagenew
Just like Casablanca, only filthy.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
01-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, The Good German
New Perspectivesnew
Clint Eastwood looks at WW II from the losing side in Letters From Iwo Jima; Karen Moncrieff slices and dices the usual slasher narrative in The Dead Girl.
Chicago Reader |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
01-17-2007 |
Reviews
Once Upon a Time in Spainnew
Guillermo del Toro discusses fairy tales, fascists, and everybody's new favorite movie.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-15-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Celebration of Womennew
No working male director loves the community of women more than Almodovar, and Volver is his ode of love to women's congress and fortitude.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Pedro Almodóvar, Volver
Stepping Outnew
Although littered with cliches and shopworn manipulations, this film's dance sequences are so captivating that it's almost possible to forget you've seen this movie a hundred times before.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Stomp The Yard, Sylvain White
Aromatic Musingsnew
Adapted from Patrick Suskind's heretofore unadaptable cult novel about an olfactory vampire in 18th-century France, Perfume is a gorgeous but woefully overlong and ultimately misguided mess.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
Jackboots and Dragonfliesnew
Pan’s Labyrinth catapults Guillermo del Toro to the top ranks of international filmmakers: His dark and fertile imagination appears to have no limit.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
A Certain Qualitynew
This movie with Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett is a hothouse psychodrama, full of outrageous and florid sentiments that are made semipalatable by the quality of the craftsmanship involved.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Notes on a Scandal, Richard Eyre
Barking Up the Wrong Treenew
It's a soggy true-crime drama -- too serious to be trashy, too trashy to be serious.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Alpha Dog, Nick Cassavetes
Care Bearers
Pedro Almodovar celebrates communities of female mutual support in Volver.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Pedro Almodóvar, Volver
Oriented Sexualitynew
Adulterous women are at the center of two new films set in China -- Curse of the Golden Flower and The Painted Veil.
Immortal Mayhemnew
It's a mad, mad Marilyn world as cannibals, collectors and defenders battle over Monroe's platinum legacy.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
01-12-2007 |
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