Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Aug 9, 2009

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I Hate Mumblecore

I had to listen to the reviews, instead of trusting my instincts.
And so there we are, wasting a good two hours of an otherwise…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Aug 21, 2009

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Classics: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

This is such a fantastic movie. It should be required viewing for all the captains of…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Sep 24, 2009

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Capitalism: A Love Story

Michael Moore can get on one’s last nerve with his shtick but I am always very grateful for his indestructible…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Jan 11, 2009

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Cadillac Records

It’s amazing how a perfectly average movie like Cadillac Records can be such a source of enjoyment.
The reason is the amazing music of Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Chuck Berry, Little Walter, and Etta James, rerecorded and sung quite decently by the wonderfully game cast of the film (Jeffrey Wright…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Sep 13, 2009

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The September Issue

This is an extended commercial for Vogue, obviously done with the cooperation of Anna Wintour and the magazine. Even so, it…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Jul 23, 2009

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A Woman in Berlin

A Woman In Berlin is an adaptation of the anonymous diary of a German woman during the fall of Berlin in 1945. It’s a good film, but it does not have the bitterness and the starkly brutal tone of the book. The book could be an apocryphal German version of the diary of Anne Frank, except that it…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 24, 2009

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A Serious Man

Immediately after watching this new Coen Bros. film, I went home, dusted off my Bible and looked up the Book of Job (which I am still reading; it’s long and amazing).
I was trying to understand the point of this frustrating movie. Giving the Coens the benefit of the doubt, I’m guessing it’s some sort of…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Jan 4, 2009

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Waltz with Bashir

One of the best movies of the year, this Israeli documentary animation film by Ari Folman is a powerful war film as well as an act of expiation and remembrance of the first Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the 80’s. As the film begins, Ari Folman claims he can’t remember anything about his…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Jul 2, 2009

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The Hurt Locker

Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker is a great war movie and probably the first serious action war movie ever. There have been many…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Aug 22, 2009

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Inglorious Basterds

The Weinstein Bros. have done it again. Once more, the Nazis are doing just fine by them, to judge from the sold out crowds…

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