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Review of Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)

By Jordan M. Smith (29) for Senses of Cinema (66) on 05 Dec 2018

Neville's film proves that despite an aesthetic approach that mimics its subject's vintage gentility, if one is keen to read between the lines,…

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Review of America (2018)

By Jordan M. Smith (29) for Senses of Cinema (66) on 05 Dec 2018

América reverberates with deep emotion as it explores the power and limits of caring for ailing loved ones on the homefront…

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Review of The Portrait of a Lady (1996)

By David Kelly (1) for Senses of Cinema (66) on 25 Oct 2018

The point of this imagery is not that Isabel has relapsed into the figure of the Gothic heroine, but that that figure in part informs her sense…

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Review of Gaz Bar Blues (2003)

By Dan Sallitt (28) for Senses of Cinema (66) on 16 Oct 2018

A nostalgic story of a family-owned gas station…

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Review of Zhou Yu's Train (2002)

By Dan Sallitt (28) for Senses of Cinema (66) on 16 Oct 2018

One can quibble with the film here and there, and it takes a turn toward conventional sentiment at the end, but it's a pleasure to be able…

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Review of November (2003)

By Dan Sallitt (28) for Senses of Cinema (66) on 16 Oct 2018

Achero Mañas's November (2003) a mock-documentary account of the history of a street theatre troupe, is more ambitious than the director's…

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Review of The Brown Bunny (2003)

By Dan Sallitt (28) for Senses of Cinema (66) on 16 Oct 2018

I couldn't appreciate Gallo the director's Cassavetes-like taste for the realism…

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Review of Memories of Murder (2003)

By Dan Sallitt (28) for Senses of Cinema (66) on 16 Oct 2018

A perplexing film in many ways - and one that must play quite differently to South Korean audiences, who are familiar with the unsolved murder…

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Review of Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004)

By Dan Sallitt (28) for Senses of Cinema (66) on 16 Oct 2018

Ultimately, Los Angeles Plays Itself plays out as a document of the conflict between Anderson's love of movies and his distrust of mass media…

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Review of A Perfect Day (2005)

By Dan Sallitt (28) for Senses of Cinema (66) on 15 Oct 2018

Directors Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige seem quite confident about their strategy: they have a strong sense of location and sound…

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Review of Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)

By Dan Sallitt (28) for Senses of Cinema (66) on 15 Oct 2018

Ultimately the film arrives at obligatory moral lessons and a bit of patriotic uplift…

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Review of C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)

By Dan Sallitt (28) for Senses of Cinema (66) on 15 Oct 2018

Playing the charismatic, androgyne hero in his older incarnation, Marc-André Grondin is surprisingly able to hold his own in his lifelong…

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Review of A Perfect Day (2006)

By Dan Sallitt (28) for Senses of Cinema (66) on 15 Oct 2018

Directors Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige seem quite confident about their strategy: they have a strong sense of location and sound…

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Review of The Notorious Bettie Page (2006)

By Dan Sallitt (28) for Senses of Cinema (66) on 15 Oct 2018

A rote assembly of as many character quirks as could be dug out of the public record…

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Review of Crazy (2013)

By Dan Sallitt (28) for Senses of Cinema (66) on 15 Oct 2018

Playing the charismatic, androgyne hero in his older incarnation, Marc-André Grondin is surprisingly able to hold his own in his lifelong…

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Review of In His Hands (2005)

By Dan Sallitt (28) for Senses of Cinema (66) on 15 Oct 2018

Practically a remake of Claude Chabrol's Le Boucher (1969), Entre ses mains makes a certain number of irritating commercial concessions…

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Review of Crazy (2008)

By Dan Sallitt (28) for Senses of Cinema (66) on 15 Oct 2018

Playing the charismatic, androgyne hero in his older incarnation, Marc-André Grondin is surprisingly able to hold his own in his lifelong…

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Review of Crazy (2000)

By Dan Sallitt (28) for Senses of Cinema (66) on 15 Oct 2018

Playing the charismatic, androgyne hero in his older incarnation, Marc-André Grondin is surprisingly able to hold his own in his lifelong…

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Review of Far Side of the Moon (2003)

By Dan Sallitt (28) for Senses of Cinema (66) on 15 Oct 2018

Unflagging in visual and verbal wit, and yet emotionally true to its protagonist's weltschmerz, [director Robert] Lapage's meditation on reconciling…

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Review of Oliver Twist (2005)

By Dan Sallitt (28) for Senses of Cinema (66) on 15 Oct 2018

Certainly Polanski deserves our gratitude for obliging the cast not to sink their teeth too deep into Dickens' juicy dialogue…

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