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Cherry Bomb! The Sundance Swag Fest

In today's New York Times, Manohla Dargis writes: For almost as long as it's been in existence, the Sundance Film Festival has fended off criticism that it has gone Hollywood. [...] But let us not be (entirely) cynical. For all…

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Name That Director!

Click above to REALLY enlarge... UPDATED 01/28/10: 2:25 p.m. PST -- COMPLETED!: Thanks for all the detective work -- and special thanks to Christopher Stangl and Srikanth Srinivasan himself for their comprehensive efforts at filling the last few holes! Now…

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The Haneke MacGuffin: What is the mystery?

"It's important to always try to tell a story in a way where there are several credible possible explanations. Explanations that can be totally contradictory!"-- Michael Haneke (This is a follow-up to a previous post: What is hidden in Caché?)…

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Irreversible: Will he see it or will he pass?

The decision to see a film is irreversible. The decision to not see it -- today, right now -- is not. It can be put off indefinitely, subject to reconsideration at any time -- until you run out of time,…

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What do we mean by the "worst" movies of the year?

Of course, critics can only choose the best or worst of a given year from among the movies we've actually seen. I'm fortunate that I get to avoid most of the plain-old, garden-variety bad movies these days ("Old Dogs," "All…

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Hitler on Leno

Of this I do not tire. Go ahead and click. You know what you're about to see -- but the subtitles are exceptionally humorous.

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What is hidden in Caché?

In his recent Great Movies review of Michael Haneke's "Caché," Roger Ebert writes of a shot he believes may hold the key to the film's mystery: How is it possible to watch a thriller intently two times and completely miss…