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Review of Tuya's Marriage (2006)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 14 Dec 2008

Inspired to capture the ebbing traditions of his mother's Mongolian heritage, director pays touching tribute to a strong woman who finally…

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Review of Under the Same Moon (2007)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 14 Dec 2008

Some plot twists and encounters go beyond broad brushstrokes for complex characterizations to make corny seem meaningful…

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Review of Chicago 10 (2008)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 14 Dec 2008

Revisits 1968 as a court room drama, through a fresh cinematic look to avoid period clichés while broadening history's appeal to both boomers…

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Review of The Reader (2008)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 10 Dec 2008

Though the sex is more vivid than the crimes or the soul-searching, portraying Germans who are neither ignorant nor psychopathic may help some…

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Review of The Memory Thief (2007)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 07 Dec 2008

A thoughtful, creative, and disturbing way to treat the numbness of Holocaust and genocide fatigue, through striking images of a man's bizarre…

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Review of Fugitive Pieces (2008)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 07 Dec 2008

A sentimental journey through inheriting loneliness and sadness from fathers to sons, and their female fantasies, relieved by beautiful language…

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Review of Bra Boys (2007)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 07 Dec 2008

In-depth intimate portrait of how a tough Aussie environment within a larrikin culture of rebels with or without a cause has produced spectacular…

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Review of The Exiles (1961)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 07 Dec 2008

For its beautiful black-and-white aesthetics, docudrama realism, and, sadly, still fresh portrait of off-reservation Native Americans, an excellent…

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Review of Dark Matter (2008)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 07 Dec 2008

Poignantly and sympathetically gets inside the confused head of an Asian immigrant rarely seen in film, a grad student flummoxed by American…

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Review of Eight Miles High (2007)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 03 Dec 2008

Refreshingly, a '60's nostalgia trip from the self-indulgent point of view of the German template for the beautiful-naked-model-bedding-chauvinist-rock-god…

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Review of Love Comes Lately (2007)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 03 Dec 2008

A poignant valentine to the creativity of I.B…

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Review of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young ‎– Déjà Vu (2008)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 27 Nov 2008

The combination of music with the performers' dedication makes this more moving than a concert souvenir, though they are almost upstaged by…

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Review of Up the Yangtze (2007)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 21 Nov 2008

Very visually documents the human cost of the abrupt changes in the Chinese economy, and intimately into the sociological changes wrought by…

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Review of Bottle Shock (2008)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 10 Nov 2008

You can enjoy the mild bouquet of Bottle Shock as pleasantly sparkling, but it could have been plummier…

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Review of Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 07 Nov 2008

Inspiring story, through vivid memories and supporting footage, of how one of Africa's worst and longest civil wars was ended by determined…

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Review of Trouble the Water (2008)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 01 Nov 2008

For the 3rd anniversary of Katrina comes a gripping point of view about the disaster and its continuing impact on the people of New Orleans…

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Review of Flow: For Love of Water (2008)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 01 Nov 2008

Channeling Soylent Green, Flow is fresh when it ties issues of supply, cost, quality, and extraction on 5 continents with the rise of giant…

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Review of Ping Pong Playa (2008)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 01 Nov 2008

Gently pokes fun at model minority and athletic stereotypes, but gets repetitive and wears thin before the engaging plot finally kicks into gear…

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Review of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 01 Nov 2008

Touching look at a father's and daughter's strained relationship as they struggle through gaps of culture, language, gender, and historical context…

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Review of What We Do Is Secret (2007)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 01 Nov 2008

West is magnetic trying to fill the gaps in the pop psychology insight into how the Germs' brief candle burned out so fast, with performances,…

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