Date Archives August 2005

Léolo

“Parce que moi je rêve, moi je ne le suis pas.” Loosely translated, “since I dream, I am not that”. That saying has become some kind of mantra for young Léo Lozeau (Maxime Collin), who…

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BROKEN FLOWERS

I don’t understand the recent coronation of Bill Murray by film critics. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that Bill Murray isn’t great; I just don’t see what’s so special about his recent work. Lost in Translation, The…

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Taxi Driver

“You’re only as healthy as you feel.” Travis Bickle’s not a happy man. He’s a Vietnam veteran who just got back in New York. He doesn’t really need money but he becomes a cab driver…

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SHE’S ALL THAT

That lousy piece of hooey is sappy, phony, dumb and unoriginal, but it somehow became a huge hit. What are people thinking? I gotta admit that it’s kinda enjoyable, in a sugarcoated l’il story for…

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Sky High

In Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, when Peter Parker administers a solid and spectacular ass-whupping to Flash, the musclebound pretty-boy who humiliates him daily, in view of Mary Jane, the viewer enjoys an incredible catharsis by seeing a…

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