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Review of Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

By Rob Nelson (320) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 20 Aug 2009

I congratulate Martin Scorsese on this miraculous triumph over his personal demons, and pray for the swift recovery of his art…

Review of Buffalo '66 (1998)

By Rob Nelson (320) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 20 Aug 2009

If Martin Scorsese, John Cassavetes, and Abel Ferrara took turns directing scenes of a film written by and starring Jerry Lewis, it might resemble…

Review of Yi Yi (2000)

By Rob Nelson (320) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 20 Aug 2009

A heartfelt and involving family drama to which even the most subtitle-wary moviegoer could relate…

Review of The Young and the Damned (1950)

By Rob Nelson (320) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 20 Aug 2009

The mean older sibling of every hell-is-for-children shocker from Pixote to Kids and Ratcatcher…

Review of Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)

By Rob Nelson (320) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 20 Aug 2009

Among the dozen or so victims of Santa's slay ride is a man who's choked to death with a string of Christmas lights and a young woman who's…

Review of Funny Games (1997)

By Rob Nelson (320) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 20 Aug 2009

A sort of Austrian art-house Cape Fear by way of the new Cinema of Cruelty…

Review of Girls in Prison (1994)

By Rob Nelson (320) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 20 Aug 2009

Sleaze-lovers left unaroused by Pecker might do well to take a peek at this rather divine trash…

Review of The Straight Story (1999)

By Rob Nelson (320) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 20 Aug 2009

One could say that The Straight Story is a twilight Western on the order of Unforgiven, except that the pale rider here mounts a snail-paced…

Review of Pi (1998)

By Rob Nelson (320) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 20 Aug 2009

Both story and style reveal the calculations of an artist so desperate to get noticed that he forgot to cover his id…

Review of Car Wash (1976)

By Rob Nelson (320) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 20 Aug 2009

Car Wash marks the point at which defiant blaxploitation turned decisively into upbeat crossover entertainment…

Review of Breathless (1983)

By Rob Nelson (320) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 20 Aug 2009

Even in an early work that blushes with the narcissistic pleasure of obsessive cinephilia, Godard knew enough to look on the dark side…

Review of Madame X (1966)

By Rob Nelson (320) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 20 Aug 2009

Completed the same year as the star's first face-lift, Madame X viciously spans two dozen years, inspiring one gossip columnist of the time…

Review of Me, Myself & Irene (2000)

By Rob Nelson (320) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 20 Aug 2009

Able-minded kids of all ages know that drooling at the dinner table can be an act of defiance…

Review of Breathless (2009)

By Rob Nelson (320) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 20 Aug 2009

Even in an early work that blushes with the narcissistic pleasure of obsessive cinephilia, Godard knew enough to look on the dark side…

Review of Saving Private Ryan (1998)

By Rob Nelson (320) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 20 Aug 2009

Private Ryan resembles the director's other so-called mature efforts by putting a positive spin on unspeakable horrors…

Review of The Big Lebowski (1998)

By Rob Nelson (320) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 20 Aug 2009

To what do we owe the pleasure of the Coen Brothers' new joie de vivre and love for their fellow man…

Review of Big Fish (2003)

By Rob Nelson (320) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 20 Aug 2009

Burton, favoring form over content, flavor over fact, has been often criticized for not knowing how to bring his work to satisfactory resolution…

Review of Snake Eyes (1998)

By Rob Nelson (320) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 20 Aug 2009

De Palma continues perfecting his brilliant visual style within the most blatantly artificial plot scenarios…

Review of The Producers (1968)

By Rob Nelson (320) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 20 Aug 2009

Like The Producers itself, Springtime for Hitler, with its Busby Berkeley-meets-Leni Riefenstahl choreography and creatively crude lyrics,…

Review of Lolita (1962)

By Rob Nelson (320) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 19 Aug 2009

While Kubrick may have likened himself to an ad-libbing thief of arts in 1962, his current persona seems the epitome of [Humbert] Humbert…

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