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Sixth Reel: February 2012
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Friday, February 10, 2012. The Artist" of the title is, I presume, George Valentin (Jean Dujardin), a silent film actor in the late 1920s, about to be rendered obsolete by the talkies. He isn't much of an artist. Dujardin's brilliant mugging as he acts the actor acting (if you see what I mean), his identikit pictures, his glamorous swagger: this is a star. What kind of affection is not clear. Maybe by the Hays-code constraints of the movie's style, chastity is unbreakable? Wednesday, February 8, 2012.
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Sixth Reel: The Master (2012)
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Friday, February 1, 2013. What will he have his people do next? What will he write? He snaps at an erstwhile patron at the launch of a new chapter in the lore of the Cause, seeming to feel the pressure of being backed into the corner of his own construction. The allure of Quell and his elixir is to be viscerally present, to be the kind of animalistic spirit that Dodd's Cause seeks to suppress. Why, at the heart of it all, do Quell and Dodd stay together? The booze or the Cause? Who is in charge of whom?
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Sixth Reel: September 2011
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011. Monday, September 26, 2011. God Bless America (2011). Frank steals his neighbors' car, drives through the night, and kills the star. We're off! Shocking violence, which I think makes it a bit less shocking. Of course it also helps that "God Bless America" has excellent jokes. God Bless America review. Sunday, September 25, 2011. Singer doesn't matter; Casey is good, and Beane cares about Casey. Saturday, September 24, 2011. Violet and Daisy (2011). Violet and Daisy review.
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Sixth Reel: October 2011
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Friday, October 21, 2011. Simple enough: the "Kill List" is a list of people that Jay (Neil Maskell) and Gal (Michael Smiley) are contracted to kill. But Ben Wheatley's film is more psychological thriller than crime thriller, and arguably horror, and arguably very oblique war allegory. Thursday, October 20, 2011. This review is more spoiler-heavy than usual.). Visions, wishes, delusions, dreams? It was like watching oil on water. I was therefore disappointed when I learned that the whole thing was in...
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Sixth Reel: November 2011
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Saturday, November 5, 2011. The opening credits of Aki Kaurismäki's "Le Havre" give prominent billing to Laika, a dog playing herself, and promise the appearance of a sixtysomething French blues-rocker by the name of Little Bob. This gives a good idea of the tone of the optimistic, understated confection that will follow. What is the nature of the mirror between Arletty and Idrissa? Are Arletty and Idrissa's fates linked or opposite? Thursday, November 3, 2011. Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011). She refuse...
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Sixth Reel: A Dangerous Method (2011)
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012. A Dangerous Method (2011). We cut to Jung and Spielrein strolling the hospital grounds, talking on much the same basis as in the treatment room. But wasn't Jung supposed to be out of sight during the treatment? What could be going on here? Labels: A Dangerous Method review. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow Sixth Reel by Email. Subscribe To Sixth Reel. A Dangerous Method (2011). A Film A Week. And So It Begins. Andy Buckle's Film Eporium. Cut The Crap Movie Reviews.
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Sixth Reel: January 2012
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Friday, January 27, 2012. Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation" begins with husband and wife Nader (Peyman Moadi) and Simin (Leila Hatami) sitting side by side, facing us, explaining their problem to an unseen adjudicator. They had planned to emigrate, for a better life for their daughter, she says. They finally have visas to leave, and 40 days left to use them. But Nader's father has Alzheimer's: how can he leave his father, he asks? Nader is accused of manslaughter. Did he know that Razieh was pregnant?
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Sixth Reel: February 2013
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Friday, February 1, 2013. What will he have his people do next? What will he write? He snaps at an erstwhile patron at the launch of a new chapter in the lore of the Cause, seeming to feel the pressure of being backed into the corner of his own construction. The allure of Quell and his elixir is to be viscerally present, to be the kind of animalistic spirit that Dodd's Cause seeks to suppress. Why, at the heart of it all, do Quell and Dodd stay together? The booze or the Cause? Who is in charge of whom?
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Sixth Reel: Le Havre (2011)
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Saturday, November 5, 2011. The opening credits of Aki Kaurismäki's "Le Havre" give prominent billing to Laika, a dog playing herself, and promise the appearance of a sixtysomething French blues-rocker by the name of Little Bob. This gives a good idea of the tone of the optimistic, understated confection that will follow. What is the nature of the mirror between Arletty and Idrissa? Are Arletty and Idrissa's fates linked or opposite? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow Sixth Reel by Email.
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Sixth Reel: Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
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Thursday, November 3, 2011. Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011). At the beginning of Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), Martha (Elizabeth Olsen) sneaks past sleeping bodies on the floor of a rickety farmhouse and runs into the woods. She is spotted and briefly pursued, but makes it to town. She makes a desperate call to her sister Lucy (Sarah Paulson), who comes to collect her and take her to the Connecticut lakeshore vacation home of Lucy and her husband Ted (Hugh Dancy). Something similar is true of Patrick,...
