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Review of Journey From the Fall (2007)

By Clayton D (81) on 13 Dec 2007

Though the story needs to be told, it needs to be told with less rudimentary cut and paste emotional depth, while toning down the dramatization…

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Review of WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)

By Clayton D (81) on 10 Dec 2007

Makavejev's extraordinary tour-de-force of socio-political mores, juxtaposed with Reichian themes and analysis of sexuality, make it one of…

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Review of A Christmas Carol (1938)

By Clayton D (81) on 10 Dec 2007

This is the first time I've seen this version of the movie and it does not disappoint, although I do like the more well-known version starring…

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Review of Broken English (2007)

By Clayton D (81) on 08 Dec 2007

Posey is quite good, but it's a shame the film itself isn't on her level…

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Review of Broken English: Three Songs by Marianne Faithfull (1979)

By Clayton D (81) on 08 Dec 2007

Posey is quite good, but it's a shame the film itself isn't on her level…

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Review of Le Million (1931)

By Clayton D (81) on 04 Dec 2007

I love this movie - it is light and funny and, well, it is a strange kind of musical…

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Review of Redacted (2007)

By Clayton D (81) on 26 Nov 2007

Awfully annoying, badly composed, and poorly acted film -- yet so timely and thought-provoking, it should almost be essential viewing for the…

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Review of Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

By Clayton D (81) on 11 Nov 2007

By the end of SUNRISE, many things are clear…

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Review of Sunrise (1985)

By Clayton D (81) on 11 Nov 2007

By the end of SUNRISE, many things are clear…

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Review of Tess (1979)

By Clayton D (81) on 11 Nov 2007

What Polanski understands so well is that a literary adaptation needs a point of view in order to stand on its own…

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Review of Days of Heaven (1978)

By Clayton D (81) on 05 Nov 2007

Its complete lack of pretension is flooring, since it attains such a profound level of complexity and resonance…

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Review of The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

By Clayton D (81) on 31 Oct 2007

It's most admirable for its set design and the iconic Lon Chaney…

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Review of The Fury (1978)

By Clayton D (81) on 25 Oct 2007

ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES I'VE SEEN IN MY LIFE…

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Review of Sisters (1973)

By Clayton D (81) on 22 Oct 2007

Excellent early De Palma movie. Traces of future films such as Carrie and Dressed To Kill are here. Well-made Hitchcock-esque thriller…

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Review of The Young and the Damned (1950)

By Clayton D (81) on 17 Oct 2007

Bunuel provides no easy or simple solutions to the problems he presents and he tells the story with such an invigorating and potent fatalism,…

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Review of Dead of Night (1974)

By Clayton D (81) on 15 Oct 2007

Boring, slow and far too long for its own good…

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Review of The Underneath (1995)

By Clayton D (81) on 15 Oct 2007

Soderbergh's neo-noir manages to be simultaneously dull, hollowed, frustrating, pretentious and overwrought…

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Review of The Yards (2000)

By Clayton D (81) on 12 Oct 2007

Slow and dreary indeed. Pretty dramatic, little action, hope We own the night is better…

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Review of Cria! (1976)

By Clayton D (81) on 03 Oct 2007

It's juxtaposition of aesthetics and ideas is unheard of…

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Review of Criss Cross (1949)

By Clayton D (81) on 30 Sep 2007

Though the film is generally tight and effective, its structure doesn't give much force to the outcome, which is archetypal, but perhaps more…

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