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Written by Linda November 23, 2008
I knew this was a Swedish vampire movie, but I did not expect a movie so quiet, so cold, and so lonely.
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Written by Linda November 07, 2008
OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies won the Golden Space Needle Audience Award at the Seattle International Film Festival in 2006, and I could see why. I'll bet this...
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Written by Linda October 18, 2008
With a minimum of talk and unforgettable images, Golden Door is a stirring, sometimes shocking portrayal of one family's immigration experience at the turn of the 20th century. Like most...
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Written by Linda October 18, 2008
It was indeed a gloomy Sunday when I popped in the DVD of Gloomy Sunday. The story of a doomed love triangle, taking place in the heyday of 1930s Budapest...
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Written by Linda October 18, 2008
If you are looking for an entertaining martial arts movie, it can't get much sillier than Dynamite Warrior. The setting: The Old West. No... wait. The Old Far East? The...
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Written by Linda October 18, 2008
In the spirit of Jim Jarmusch's early work (especially the slacker-fest Stranger Than Paradise), Fernando Eimbcke's Duck Season is a minimalist black-and-white slice-of-life gem about a handful of unremarkable people...
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Written by Linda October 13, 2008
From the opening moments of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, you know you are in for something different. The camera is blurry and disoriented. It has a hard time...
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Written by Linda October 11, 2008
The Brits call them the Falkland Islands; the Argentians, the Islas Malvinas. In 1982, to distract from huge political and economic protests, the Argentinian government invaded the islands to "take...
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