Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 22, 2011

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Margin Call

It looks like hype was looking for an Occupy Wall Street movie and found this one right on time. Its timeliness will no doubt help…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 11, 2011

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NYFF 2011: Shame

The fruitful collaboration between director Steve McQueen (Hunger) and actor Michael Fassbender is starting to resemble…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 2, 2011

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NYFF 2011: Miss Bala

Although it is described as an action thriller, what Miss Bala does best is make palpable the feelings of fear, revulsion and violation that Mexicans have been grappling with since the dawning of era of the war on drugs.
Laura Guerrero, (Stephanie Sigman), lives in Tijuana with her father…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 14, 2011

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NYFF 2011: Martha Marcy May Marlene

I just adore movies where evil happens in plain daylight. I have not felt so creeped out by a movie in a long time. Writer-director Sean Durkin’s extraordinary film is a psychological horror story about Martha, the outstanding Elizabeth Olsen (sister of the celebrity…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 3, 2011

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NYFF 2011: A Separation

Out of four movies I’ve seen in the Festival, A Separation, an Iranian film written and directed by Asghar Farhadi…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 18, 2011

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NYFF 2011: The Descendants

I’m a big fan of Alexander Payne, a smart, independent-minded American filmmaker, in my view, an heir to great satirists like Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges.
His movies are about regular Americans and the messes they get into: Citizen Ruth, Election, About Schmidt, Sideways, and…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 26, 2011

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For Your Halloween Consideration

Don’t want to dress up as Michelle Bachmann or an OWS camper this Halloween? Watch a movie instead…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 4, 2011

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NYFF 2011: 2 Small Films

Julia Loktev’s The Loneliest Planet, a small film about romantic disillusionment, takes place in the wilderness of Georgia, Russia, and follows two young travelers, Nica, (Israeli actress Hani Furstenberg) and Alex (Gael García Bernal) as they go hiking in the mountains. There is very…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 22, 2011

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The Skin I Live In

Except for Volver, a movie I loved, I have not liked an Almodóvar movie in ages. He has become a parody of himself, and since I am not a fan of camp, his excursions into deliberately cheesy melodrama are not for me. The Skin I Live In is yet another contrived pastiche of a filmmaker who is now…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 9, 2011

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NYFF 2011: Melancholia

My original review of this latest film by Lars Von Trier went like this:
“Wow”.
But I owe it to my readers to provide slightly more illumination, so here goes:

My theory about Von Trier is that he is a madman with creative visions and what we have been getting from him lately are…

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