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  • FREE MEN aka LES HOMMES LIBRES

    This is the story of Younes a young illiterate Algerian Moslem immigrant living in Paris and making a quick franc from selling things ‘off the back of a lorry’ when he meets a nice guy who’s in trouble, and happens to be Jewish, so Younes changes from being a bad boy into a good boy…

  • EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE

    And Inordinately Nondescript’ would complete the title of this movie about a 11 year old boy coming to grips with his father who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11 which I think was meant to have us reaching for our Kleenex instead I was checking out where the nearest exit was. Oskar the…

  • MONEYBALL

    When this movie first surfaced I quickly dismissed it as something that only people with a penchant for baseball and/or Brad Pitt would be want to see, and I have no interest in either.  Mr Pitt is a pleasant enough actor and has been fortunate to have been in some very good movies, but I’ve…

  • PINA

    Encountering the work of the revolutionary dancer choreographer Pina Bausch for the very first time reminded me yet again of the great cultural abyss I live in at times, and if it hadn’t been for watching Wim Wender’s enchanting documentary, I would have missed knowing about her completely. Ms. Bausch once described the human impulse to…