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Cinelist, 12.13.12
Film Comments Dec 12, 2012 5:43pm NEW RELEASE Delhi Safari (PG, 96 mins) A group of animated animals ask some pretty serious-for-a-kid-movie-questions of the Delhi government, including “Why has man become the most dangerous animal...
Review: Diane Vreeland documentary The Eye Has To Travel
Film Comments Dec 05, 2012 5:51pmEvery so often a documentary shows up profiling a fashion industry figure in danger of being forgotten, or in danger of not having his or her legacy solidified posthumously or in the December of...
CineList, 12.6.12
Film Comments Dec 05, 2012 4:29pmNEW RELEASEChasing Ice (PG-13, 75 minutes) Photographer James Balog ventures to the Arctic and uses time-lapse cameras to document global warming’s effects on the disappearing glaciers....
Review: Brilliant scenes aren’t quite enough to save Killing Them Softly
Film Comments Nov 28, 2012 4:03pmRevisiting 1973 crime drama The Friends of Eddie Coyle seems like a good idea at first. The gritty film based on George V. Higgins’s novel unsympathetically portrays the amoral interactions of low-...
CineList, 11.29.12
Film Comments Nov 28, 2012 3:52pmNEW RELEASE24/7 In Love (NR) A Filipino romcom involving a 40-year-old virgin, a gigolo and a bunch of girls who fall for a bunch of unhinged guys. It involves the words “antics” and “for love’s sake...
Review: Life of Pi plods along with boring exposition and shallow sprituality
Film Comments Nov 21, 2012 6:26pmAng Lee is unconcerned with conventionality. His career has charted a course more famously through Sense and Sensibility, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the maligned Hulk and Brokeback Mountain, but...
New Dawns: What if this film remake went another way?
Film Comments Nov 21, 2012 5:36pmTHE RED DAWN remake arrives this week, and one of the major changes was replacing the original Soviet invaders with a new enemy country. What alternatives did producers bat around before settling on...
CineList, 11.22.12
Film Comments Nov 21, 2012 5:32pmNEW RELEASESA Late Quartet (R, 105 mins) Lust, death, egos. Even a renowned string quartet (including Philip Seymour Hoffman and Christopher Walken) isn’t immune to the drama genre. Village...
Review: Steven Spielberg turns his love for Abraham Lincoln into a biopic for another polarized America
Film Comments Updated: Nov 21, 2012 5:16pmSteven Spielberg has long admired the 16th president, recalling in the production notes of Lincoln the awe he felt as a child when he stood at the feet of Honest Abe’s Washington, D.C., memorial. The...
Review: Holy Motors a dazzling grab bag of movie genres
Film Comments Nov 14, 2012 4:42pmHoly Motors is the antidote to the bloated pretentiousness of Cloud Atlas, and likely the purest example of an art film that will surface in 2012. Director Léos Carax is as noncommercial as they come...
