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Review of Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (2007)

By Bill White (195) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 17 Jul 2008

Although rich in family scrapbooks and anecdotes, Scott Hicks' documentary on composer Philip Glass is a portrait of the artist in the present tense…

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Review of Love and Honor (2006)

By Bill White (195) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 10 Jul 2008

The film is void of action until a final duel that is staged with a believability that makes the supernatural skill displayed in most blind…

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Review of Yella (2007)

By Bill White (195) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 10 Jul 2008

This German rip-off of Herk Harvey's 1962 Carnival of Souls replaces the junky eeriness of the original with a disassociated pretentiousness…

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Review of The Tracey Fragments (2007)

By Bill White (195) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 12 Jun 2008

The split screen has never been used so purposefully or with such aesthetic care, capturing the multiple perspectives of a character who cannot…

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Review of Paper Clips (2004)

By Bill White (195) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 09 Jun 2008

Where other documentarians look for a charismatic personality to enliven their films, Berlin and Fab focus on the community as a whole…

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Review of Stuck (1974)

By Bill White (195) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 05 Jun 2008

Unlike the worthless torture porn that is destroying the genre, Stuck is a horror movie with a reason for being…

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Review of Stuck (2007)

By Bill White (195) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 05 Jun 2008

Unlike the worthless torture porn that is destroying the genre, Stuck is a horror movie with a reason for being…

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Review of Stuck! (2009)

By Bill White (195) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 05 Jun 2008

Unlike the worthless torture porn that is destroying the genre, Stuck is a horror movie with a reason for being…

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Review of Stuck (2002)

By Bill White (195) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 05 Jun 2008

Unlike the worthless torture porn that is destroying the genre, Stuck is a horror movie with a reason for being…

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Review of Young Yakuza (2007)

By Bill White (195) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 22 May 2008

Plays more like a bad feature than a documentary…

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Review of Pumpkin (2002)

By Bill White (195) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 11 May 2008

Combining the fairy-tale idealism of Edward Scissorhands with Hairspray's devilish sarcasm, the directors try for the sincerity of a message…

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Review of Shotgun Stories (2007)

By Bill White (195) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 07 May 2008

An allegory of our times, Shotgun Stories is a tragedy of biblical scale and an intimate family drama…

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Review of Disappearances (2007)

By Bill White (195) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 04 May 2008

It is a pretentious and incoherent blend of ghost story and frontier adventure that becomes more preposterous and idiotic with each passing scene…

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Review of Maiko Haaaan!!! (2007)

By Bill White (195) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 30 Apr 2008

Imagine Moe Howard of the Three Stooges as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and you might get an inkling of the monotone slapstick filling two long…

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Review of Moliere (2007)

By Bill White (195) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 11 Apr 2008

The meshing of Moliere and Tartuffe into one character creates so many complications and loose ends that it is a fool's errand to try to make…

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Review of Irina Palm (2007)

By Bill White (195) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 10 Apr 2008

Garbarski recovers from the melodrama with a final image that is so sweet, so simple and so understated that one is tempted to say it is perfect…

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Review of The Singing Revolution (2006)

By Bill White (195) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 02 Apr 2008

The Singing Revolution becomes a tense political thriller that culminates in one of the most significant events of past century: The collapse…

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Review of Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman (2007)

By Bill White (195) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 02 Apr 2008

Over the six hours spent with Fox as she jets around the globe, a picture emerges, not only of a modern woman contemplating herself, but of…

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Review of Boarding Gate (2007)

By Bill White (195) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 27 Mar 2008

Writer-director Olivier Assayas must have been working out some personal demons to make something as embarrassing as Boarding Gate, the most…

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Review of Helvetica (2007)

By Bill White (195) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 07 Mar 2008

Director Gary Hustwit opens our eyes to the visual culture of typography in much the same way as Andy Warhol once freed us from the tyranny…

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