DVD-o-Scope

found footage This year will be remembered as the year film died of unnatural causes, a superior storage medium killed by corporate mandate which makes it ironically appropriate that Bill Morrisons Decasia is newly out on Blu-ray. A hymn…

Holy Motors

Film didnt die of natural causes. It was, like the silent movie, murdered by an industry keen to modernize, doing business in the cloud, tossing out projectors and prints to make room for garish, password-protected baubles. Leos Caraxs Holy Motors…
- Nov 19, 2012 - 5:16 am
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Silver Linings Playbook

Based on a novel by local author Matthew Quick, the locally shot Silver Linings Playbook mixes the style of David O. Russells The Fighter with the antic performance style of I Heart Huckabees, a combination designed to leave viewers as…
- Nov 12, 2012 - 7:36 am
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The Master

Movies The Master Majestically shot in 70mm, Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master is a film of such self-conscious stature that it demands to be called a masterpiece. email print font size options Posted: Thu, Sep. 20, 2012, 12:00 AM…
- Sep 20, 2012 - 4:53 am
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Anonymous

Movies Anonymous It seems as if there’s an intelligent core to John Orloff’s script, but Roland Emmerich is hopelessly out of his depth. email print font size share LinkedIn StumbleUpon Tumblr Digg ChimeIn Delicious Google+ Reddit options Posted: Thu,…
- Apr 19, 2012 - 11:16 am
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Anonymous

Movies Anonymous It seems as if there’s an intelligent core to John Orloff’s script, but Roland Emmerich is hopelessly out of his depth. email print font size share LinkedIn StumbleUpon Tumblr Digg ChimeIn Delicious Google+ Reddit options Posted: Thu,…
- Apr 19, 2012 - 4:48 am
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Kaboom

Movies Kaboom Considering that he’s been directing movies for nearly two decades, you’d think Gregg Araki would have learned how to make one by now. email print font size share LinkedIn StumbleUpon Tumblr Digg ChimeIn Delicious Google+ Reddit options …
- Mar 28, 2012 - 11:19 am
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Couch Surfing

Movies Couch Surfing Laurel & Hardy: The Essential Collection | Friday Night Lights | The Complete Jean Vigo/The Three Colors Trilogy | Treasures 5: The West | Landmarks of Early Soviet Film email print font size options Posted: Thu,…
- Dec 8, 2011 - 4:51 am
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Couch Surfing

Laurel & Hardy: The Essential Collection Not complete, owing to pesky rights issues, but an overflowing cornucopia of fine messes, starring some of the precious few performers to successfully bridge the silent and sound eras. Comprising more than 50 films…
- Dec 7, 2011 - 6:26 am
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The Skin I Live In

Movies email print font size options Posted: Thu, Nov. 3, 2011, 3:00 AM The Skin I Live In City Paper Grade: A- Sam Adams Email Sam Adams BODY ELECTRIC: In The Skin I Live In, Pedro Almodóvar’s best film…
- Nov 3, 2011 - 4:49 am
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