Date Archives November 2010

SOMEWHERE

If it feels like I’m writing the same review after every Sofia Coppola movie I see, maybe it’s because she keeps making the same one over and over. As such, it’s quite fitting that the first shot…

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Bombay Calling

We all love “Glengarry Glen Ross”, with its desperate salesmen being harangued by Alec Baldwin (” You can’t close the leads you’re given, you can’t close shit, you ARE shit, hit the bricks pal and…

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Polytechnique

  First, a confession: I used to think that Denis Villeneuve embodied everything that was wrong about Quebec cinema in the 1990s: film school pretentiousness, masturbatory stylistic flourishes, pseudo-profound hogwash… Having talked to Villeneuve a…

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