…"themselves, in a mirror"…

Is this one basically a padded out treatment for a future screenplay too?  (and C.C. Baxter - that's why Little Children was a single-sitting read…)

Come on, guys … we've almost succeeded in killing off all the aspirations of second-wave feminism by conditioning girls and young women to be against them and think it's they who are liking this sort of thing!  Just a little more effort and we can regain unquestioned (in at least two ways) dominance again!

But sometimes, some people really do know better than other people about some things.  That's not condescending or 'elitist' … it's only so if you try to claim that a certain type always knows better about everything, or that they're morally superior, or something.

Yeah, except all of the anti-nuclear-war films being mentioned are rip-offs of Peter Watkins' "The War Game" (Threads even has a sound-alike reading narration written in exactly the same style!) which is more effective due to its successfully managing to combine 'clinical' with 'impassioned' - plus, it was…

Agreed - and I don't think the "no meaning or control" line literally means he thinks poor people's lives have no meaning.  Come on, aren't critics supposed to understand the things they write about?  (oh, wait…)

weird … I posted something in reply to a totally different thread on page 1, and now it's here and not there…

So-Yong Kim's "In Between Days" was pretty great, but she's Korean-American, and it was set in Toronto, so it's not really the same thing.

What about the alternative of going to one's local, independent, small-scale video store to, you know, rent a DVD in person?

These sound great!
Why only a B? WHy not at least an A-? What's ggoing on?

Yep, good article.

Should have been called 'Manufacturing Chimpsent'
But man, 'Man on Wire' was some trite shite!

I wouldn't say it sucks (or "SUCKS", as it were), but I don't see what all the hype is about. I don't know what about the hallway scene felt clumsily choreographed to you (since I don't know much about stage combat/fight choreography, I can't really comment) but it did strike me that the hallway wouldn't likely be as…

Don't bother. I'm all for supporting even halfway decent Canadian cinema, but this is just more Telefilm dreck. Having grown up myself near Mennonite communities in Ontario (Waterloo/St. Jacobs area), I have some amount of familiarity with the people/culture/lifestyle, and I have to say this movie really seemed to…

"Gentlemen Broncos" did it better. And that's really not saying that much…

It's still worth checking out. It's all right.

Another one that would have worked is the Korean 'not-really-a-thriller' 301/302.

Fish Tank
Not a bad film, but I don't know if it's really deserving of the Criterion treatment. It's Lynne Ramsay-lite, which is already Ken Loach-lite, essentially… And, judging from this, her first feature "Red Road", and her short "Wasp", Andrea Arnold doesn't know how to successfully end a narrative (though…

For the record, I'm not actually expecting a film to have some 'deep, spiritual meaning', or to be making a point. I prefer films to be experiences above all. But I want the experience a film gives me to be relevant to something. If the story was meant to be about human relationships and the consequences of our…

I heard about Pierce becoming too villainous from someone who saw this episode before it was even filmed.