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Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema: November 2014

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Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema. A moviegoing journal and other ephemera. Wednesday, November 19, 2014. Alex Ross Perry, 2014). Philip Lewis Friedman (Jason Schwartzman) has every reason to feel important and isn’t shy about letting others know it in LISTEN UP PHILIP. Eric Bogosian’s narration and Keegan DeWitt’s jazz-inflected score point toward a more literary and improvisational style. LISTEN UP PHILIP. Often filmed in tight close-ups, LISTEN UP PHILIP. Tuesday, November 18, 2014. Dumb and Dumber To.

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Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema: March 2015

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Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema. A moviegoing journal and other ephemera. Saturday, March 28, 2015. Adam Wingard, 2014). The Peterson household is still reeling from the death of their enlisted son Caleb when David (Dan Stevens) turns up at their door out of the blue in THE GUEST. Director Adam Wingard uses triangles as a visual motif in THE GUEST. Encapsulates the funny sensibility riding shotgun in this thriller. Strives for good, bloody fun while being sure not to overstay its welcome. The stout, si...

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Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema: While We're Young

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Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema. A moviegoing journal and other ephemera. Thursday, April 23, 2015. WHILE WE’RE YOUNG. Noah Baumbach, 2014). Each generation tends to look at the next one with some suspicion that they don’t live up to the standards they hold dear. As the saying goes, youth is wasted on the young. With Generation X in middle age, the time has come for them- us, in my case- to judge the habits, interests, and attitudes of millenials. In WHILE WE’RE YOUNG. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema: Lost Highway

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Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema. A moviegoing journal and other ephemera. Thursday, May 28, 2015. David Lynch, 1997). Is suffused with dead of the night dread, a half-lucid, creeping sensation that one’s doom awaits in the shadows. When Fred has the police searching his house for signs of unlawful entry, he’s asked if he has a video camera. Fred responds that he hates the devices because he likes “to remember things my own way”. The tension in LOST HIGHWAY. Comes from the disconnect between the way thi...

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Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema: White Bird in a Blizzard

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Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema. A moviegoing journal and other ephemera. Friday, April 24, 2015. White Bird in a Blizzard. WHITE BIRD IN A BLIZZARD. Gregg Araki, 2014). Kat Connors (Shailene Woodley) is 17 years old in the fall of 1988 when her mother Eve (Eva Green) disappears without a trace in WHITE BIRD IN A BLIZZARD. Writer-director Gregg Araki presents WHITE BIRD IN A BLIZZARD. 8217;s sometimes lurid story as a mix of 1950s melodramas, 1980s teen movies with a decidedly harder edge, and a little...

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Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema: Clouds of Sils Maria

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Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema. A moviegoing journal and other ephemera. Thursday, May 07, 2015. Clouds of Sils Maria. CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA. Olivier Assayas, 2014). In CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA. Films never tapped. She hides her character’s ambition in her attentiveness to Maria, almost like a child to an elderly parent, yet Valentine is willing to push back when she feels unheard or unappreciated. CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA. Clouds of Sils Maria. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.

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Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema: Hot Pursuit

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Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema. A moviegoing journal and other ephemera. Thursday, May 28, 2015. Anne Fletcher, 2015). Buttoned-up, by-the-books Cooper and the high-spirited and volatile Daniella make a classical mismatched pair in a road comedy, but HOT PURSUIT. Character. With both actresses it’s like the vocal equivalent of flop sweat. Who can blame them, though, when they’re forced into one unfunny scenario after another? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I have served as a programmer for the De...

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Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema: July 2014

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Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema. A moviegoing journal and other ephemera. Thursday, July 31, 2014. Jake Kasdan, 2014). To spice up a love life that’s been dulled by their focus on work and raising two kids Annie (Cameron Diaz) and Jay (Jason Segel) decide to record their most intimate moments in SEX TAPE. Jay sets up his iPad to capture them trying out all of the positions in 1970s manual THE JOY OF SEX. Early on SEX TAPE. Wednesday, July 30, 2014. James DeMonaco, 2014). In THE PURGE: ANARCHY. America ...

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Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema: September 2014

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Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema. A moviegoing journal and other ephemera. Thursday, September 25, 2014. A Walk Among the Tombstones. A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES. Scott Frank, 2014). In A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES. The new millennium looms like storm clouds on the horizon in A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES. Whether accounting for films or television, popular culture has no shortage of entertainment that hinges on villains torturing and murdering women. A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES. A Walk Among the Tombstones.

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Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema: December 2014

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Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema. A moviegoing journal and other ephemera. Friday, December 19, 2014. Will Gluck, 2014). Although Annie Bennett (Quvenzhané Wallis) was abandoned at an Italian restaurant at the age of four, the plucky Harlem foster kid remains confident that she’ll be happily reunited with her parents. In ANNIE. Has to a memorable production number is when “It’s a Hard Knock Life” uses the sounds of straightening up the foster home to add STOMP. At times the updated references scream of ...