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Re: “Three Sisters: The Chores of Childhood”
It would be unique to have Chinese doc makers come here and film the life of an inner-city fam, preferably the US-standard "single mom" and her brood, which would probably make China's citizens thankful for the way of life as they live it.
Re: “Like Tree Of Life (But Less Catholic): Post Tenebras Lux”
No way my friend. No connection between Tree of Life and Reygadas' work. Reygadas is telling pure violance. Malick is looking for endless peace in the deepest layer of his soul. Sry.
Re: “My Name is Mud”
I doubt that the movie could be as interesting as this review.
Re: “"I Ollied The Berlin Wall": This Ain't California”
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Re: “Revenge of the Poors: The Angels' Share”
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Re: “Herman's Life as a House”
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Re: “In the House: Can Cinema Teach Us Anything?”
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Re: “Vision Quest: To the Wonder”
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Re: “The Independent Hipster, The Jazzman Turned Boxer: Muhammad Ali, the Greatest”
What Ignorance! Ali won those fights fair and square and "sports betting interests" had nothing to do with it.
Re: “Quentin Tarantino's First and Last Movie for Grown-Ups”
Your mother loks well, like a cartoon
Re: “Gut Renovation: Williamsburg Becomes Condoburg”
Henry, I think this is overly harsh. Yes, the film is entirely told from the viewpoint of a particular group of folks who moved to Northside Williamsburg around 1990 and have since been mostly gentrified out. Yes, it is narrow in its perspective and does not attempt to tell the socio-economic or cultural history of Williamsburg, or the political economy of gentrification. But I still thought it a valuable contribution to the conversation on gentrification. The entire neighborhood that Su Friedrich came to love over 15+ years was demolished around her and replaced by a nightmare of hideous cheaply built condominiums. A compelling personal look at the front lines of gentrification.
Re: “Leviathan: Is This What Drowning Feels Like?”
Awesome review. But...Why can't you folks include where the goddamn film is SHOWING? Are you trying to distinguish yourselves by eschewing usefulness?
Re: “Beyond the Hills: The Exorcism of Romania”
Where does it open?
Re: “Leviathan: Is This What Drowning Feels Like?”
What an insanely articulate writer!
Re: “Side Effects: They May Include "WHAAAA"”
Sounds like you didn't see the movie.
Re: “Side Effects: They May Include "WHAAAA"”
Sounds like a film to glorify prescription psychotropic drugs, the same drugs every single one of the widely sensationalized mass shooters have been on, including Adam Lanza.
Re: “There's No Right Way to Watch, Only Wrong Ones: The Early Films of Abbas Kiarostami”
This article is right that many great Kiarostami films are unavailable on Region 1 DVD or Blu-Ray. Others:
Where is the Friend's House?
Homework
Life and Nothing More...
Through the Olive Trees
Re: “Whitewashing Koch”
Please restore the FUCK ED KOCH headline. He was a damaging asshole.
Re: “Whitewashing Koch”
Bitch Please. The ONLY reason hipsters got on their proverbial soap boxes about the AIDS crises is that it predominantly affected white, gay, men in NYC. People like them.
I don't see any vitriol regarding the sub-Sahara epidemic, which STILL rages today and has infected over 5% of the entire population. Can Mr. Beckett (or, for that matter the filmmakers of How to Survive a Plague) even name the people in charge in dealing with that crises. Without a quick google search I would say not. Talk about whitewashing....
Ed Koch was an imperfect mayor who should be ashamed of the way he handled the AIDS crises and his relationship with the Black Community. But he did other things that were very effective in generating housing, gay rights (yes, look it up idiots) and education reform (which the above doc sadly missed). He wasn't the perfect leader, who is?
Sorry it's an even-handed film and not the "hit piece" you wanted.
Re: “Whitewashing Koch”
The boy-in-a-blouse, above, has called me a fool.
But the boy-in-a-blouse cannot disagree the Koch got the redline around the City removed, allowing the underclasses access to capital for the first time since the war.
Koch's hand up created true social mobility, and did it without humiliating the poor like Lyndsay's relief handouts.
