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Oscar’s crying game: the use & abuse of melancholy

Well, once again it’s the bleakest time of the year — mid-November, and Oscar season. Cold, dreary capitalism settles in as marketers…

November 17, 2011
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Must we make a friend of horror, Colonel Kurtz?

In one of the most memorable scenes from “Apocalypse Now,” Marlon Brando, shrouded in shadow, hisses out (amidst other drug-fueled demagogic babblings)…

November 3, 2011
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Reasons to see indie film “Weekend” this weekend

There is a raging maniac urgency underneath the cucumber-cool surface of the limited-release Indie film — you know the type. We presuppose…

October 20, 2011
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How to succeed in Hollywood without really trying

I am consistently mystified by the American box office — and not just those absurd moments when soul-dismemberingly bad movies retain the…

September 29, 2011
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“Contagion,” Katie and Cotillard: Disfiguring the Oscars

In the manner of all those pedantic jerks you’ve already been reading and despising for three weeks, I will begin by telling…

September 15, 2011

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