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Oscars 2013: The Morning After

As you must know by now, the ceremony was deemed sexist, racist and offensive by a lot of people. For the most part, it was.

I’m loath to join the “can’t take a joke” bandwagon. What offends me the most is that Seth McFarlane’s humor was petty and…

2012 Best and Worst And Everything In Between

This was a good year for movies. These are films I saw during 2012. As I recall…

For Your Halloween Consideration

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

So Excited about Michael Haneke Tonight!

I loved Anthony Lane’s article on him, splendidly titled “Happy Haneke”. And I can’t wait to hear Haneke talk, hopefully about why he is such an elegant, disturbing little sadist. And then I can’t wait to see The White Ribbon, the movie that won the Palme…

My Special Olympics

At New Directors New Films I saw “My Special Olympics”, the short that won the jury prize at Sundance.
It is made exclusively with footage of home movies; a confessional family documentary (in the vein of My Architect or Capturing the Friedmans). We hear some slacker voiceover nasally intone…

Yet Another List of Bests and Worsts of 2005

This is still work in progress because my neurons are so damaged from so much use (what did you think?) that I can’t remember what movies I saw this year. I don’t think it was that great a year, frankly, and that is why it’s all a blur to me. But I…