5 min movie guide
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Bellflower
I guess this new hip, slightly grubby, apocalyptic indie movie could be classified as ‘mumblecore* plus’ i.e. it’s a tad more professional (despite the minuscule budget) and more accessible than others in that genre. It’s about two young men barely grown up who are best friends, good looking, immensely personable, very funny and quick-witted, and who are…
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QUIET CHAOS
One doesn’t usually associate Italians with restraint, but in this enchanting movie from 2008 that I have just come across, they are just exactly that in the telling of this wee drama about surviving a death in a family. In a bizarre coincidence when Pietro returns from the beach with his brother after they…
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THE TREE OF LIFE
Its no easy feat collecting one’s thoughts after watching Terrence Malik’s latest confounding epic of a movie: it is truly mind-blowing. What little plot there is focuses on the O’Brien’s, a rather ordinary middle-class family in small town America in the 1950’s. Mr. O’Brien struggles with conflicting ideals: he is a strict disciplinarian of a…
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MARGIN CALL
In less than 24 hours a major Wall Street Investment Firm (that seemed awfully like Lehman Brothers) jolts from success to near death in a story that would have been inconceivable before this current financial free fall started in 2008 … or maybe not. The meltdown starts when in the midst of a round of…
