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Yuppie Commune, by Kyle Anderson

The idea of giving up all your earthly possessions and reuniting with nature is a fairly common one, though most of us don’t actually do it. It does some pretty idyllic – getting back to a simpler time, not worrying...

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2012 Nominated Documentary Short Films

Short Subject Documentary always seemed like the strangest category in the Academy Awards. How are they any different than an episode of Nightline? To be fair, I hadn’t given them much of a look as they’re usually among the most...

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Bond, James Bond: The 90s, by Kyle Anderson

After a decade of lackluster James Bond movies, and the two Timothy Dalton outings being undeniably meh, the franchise needed a change and a breather.  After 16 films in 27 years, with a three year gap between 1974 and 1977...

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2012 Nominated Live Action Short Films

A program of live action short films is almost always a mixed bag. You always get that one that’s a silent drama from Czechoslovakia (a place that no longer exists) and is just at the very limit of length to...

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Man vs. Wild, by Kyle Anderson

The three types of narrative conflict, it has been said, are Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, and Man vs. Himself. Joe Carnahan went for the hat trick by employing all three for his new film, The Grey.  It’s the...

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Witch Hunt, by Kyle Anderson

From the opening scenes of Ken Russell’s 1971 film The Devils, you get a feel for the overall tone, one of grotesquery, irreverence, and caricature, and by the end, the tone has been maintained. The film’s themes are of blasphemy,...

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Bond, James Bond: The 70s, by Kyle Anderson

Coming out of the 1960s, the James Bond film series was sitting very pretty indeed. The six films it produced in the decade proved to be insanely profitable and they made Sean Connery an international superstar. Though the decade ended...

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Which Way is Winch, by Kyle Anderson

I don’t think I’ve seen a more overtly international film than Jerome Salle’s The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch. It features a cast made up of actors from all over Europe, English, French, Serbian, and Portuguese are all spoken casually throughout,...

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Breaking Even, by Kyle Anderson

Heist movies are a tough thing to pull off effectively.  It’s not just that the characters are robbing someone; it’s seeing how clever they are in pulling it off. The best examples of the form (Rififi, Le Cercle Rouge, The...

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