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Review of Watermelon Man (1970)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Feb 2007

Gradually, Van Peebles turns stereotypical images of postwar bourgeois prosperity against themselves, leading to a denouement that feels oddly…

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Review of Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Jan 2005

The blatant staging and rich emotional undercurrent of Vertov’s documentary footage presage Werner Herzog’s ecstatic truth mantra, and…

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Review of The Apartment (1960)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Jul 2004

The tone of The Apartment differs from both those darkly moral movies and the filmmaker’s farces, finding a middle ground of somber tragedy…

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Review of Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Nov 1999

Of all the ’70s road movies, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot may be the only one in which the characters find themselves…

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Review of My Man Godfrey (1936)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Jun 1999

La Cava’s supple but cutting romantic comedy is one of the finest works of class-conscious comedy in Hollywood history…

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Review of Gloria (1980)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Apr 1999

Cassavetes and Rowlands lend a screwball energy to this thriller, ably playing conflicting moods of suspense and silliness off each other to…

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Review of The Long Riders (1980)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Oct 1997

The Long Riders takes more than a few cues from John Ford, favoring laconic characters whose projected confidence masks an inability to vocalize…

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Review of Streets of Fire (1984)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 May 1993

Walter Hill’s 1984 film combines everything from seedy bars, street fights, motorcycles, beefy heavies, and tough dames in a smorgasbord…

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Review of An Angel at My Table (1990)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Mar 1992

Jane Campion upends staid genre convention with an impressionistic approach to character…

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Review of Time Bandits (1981)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Oct 1982

Good as the cameos are, however, the lasting draw of the film is its exceptional aesthetic…

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Review of The Driller Killer (1979)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Jul 1979

What makes the film so remarkable is the extent to which Ferrara, even at the outset of his career, exploits sex and violence for their popular…

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Review of Under Capricorn (1949)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Mar 1970

Though Under Capricorn’s dark and twisty narrative eventually unearths everyone’s secrets, it’s the swooning camera that most fully taps…

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