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New Reviews: ‘Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa,’‘Role Models,’‘The Boy in Striped...
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (dir: Mark Herman) I’d really like to like this film more than I do. It’s well made, it’s exceedingly well-intentioned, it’s out to teach a lesson about the Holocaust to...
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‘Six in Paris’ on TCM
My review of the 1965 New Wave omnibus film Six in Paris, recently released on DVD by New Yorker, is up at the Turner Classic Movies website. The omnibus film – a feature made up of original short...
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DVDs for 2/10/09 –‘Frozen River,’‘The Romance of Astrea and Celadon’ and more
Melissa Leo in "Frozen River" Courtney Hunt delivers the best kind of American independent drama with Frozen River, a film that is respectful of its characters, responsive to its location and honest in...
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Videophiled: ‘A Tale of Winter’
Big World A Tale of Winter (Big World, DVD), the second film in French filmmaker Eric Rohmer’s “Tales of the Four Seasons” cycle from the 1990s, is not the chilly story its title would suggest. Felice...
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Blu-ray Debuts: Two by Rohmer, ‘Tenderness of the Wolves,’ and Ford’s...
The Marquise of O (Film Movement, Blu-ray, DVD) – After Eric Rohmer completed his “Six Moral Tales,” and before launching into the “Comedies and Proverbs,” he tackled two projects very different than...
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Blu-ray / DVD: Jacques Rivette’s nouvelle vague magnum opus ‘Out 1’ restored...
Jacques Rivette’s Out 1 (Kino Lorber / Carlotta, Blu-ray+DVD) has been one of the Holy Grails of international cinema since its premier screening in 1971. Rejected by French TV and, at over 12 1/2...
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