Category: movie recommendation

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Movie Recommendation- Late Marriage

LATE MARRIAGE (2001) On its face, Dover Kosashvili’s Late Marriage concerns issues that may seem quite alien to you and me. It’s the story of a 31-year-old Israeli man named Zaza (Lior Ashkenazi, recently seen in Footnote) whose very traditional...

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Movie Recommendation- In The Cut

IN THE CUT (2003) Generally, I use these occasional Movie Recommendation posts to highlight a film I think you may have missed because it’s obscure or it flew under the radar on its initial release. However with this one (as...

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Movie Recommendation- The Loved One

THE LOVED ONE (1965) The sixties were a weird time for American film – while the studio system was falling apart, a few brave, engaged filmmakers found ways to sneak some truly subversive material across the border of distribution. Tony...

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Movie Recommendation- The Last September

THE LAST SEPTEMBER (1999) The Last September was the film debut for theatrical director Deborah Warner. She chose to adapt Elizabeth Bowen’s 1929 novel which tells the story of a wealthy family living in County Cork, Ireland in 1920, during...

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Movie Recommendation- The Pledge

THE PLEDGE (2001) Sean Penn’s The Pledge seems like it could be a very conventional story.  It is about a retiring detective who becomes obsessed with his last cast, which he is convinced was not properly solved.  Played by no...

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Movie Recommendation- Lantana

LANTANA (2001) The exhausting “tapestry-of-intersecting-bourgeois-lives” genre sometimes seems like it only continues to exist because its purveyors are in a game of one-upmanship to see who can include the most characters. The recent, tepid Answers to Nothing may be the...

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Movie Recommendation- Superstar

SUPERSTAR (1999) Tyler and I recently discussed on the podcast how often most film critics don’t connect with fringe comedies like Wet Hot American Summer. Despite being released by a major studio and being based on one of the more...

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