Category: movies
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Elena
The last movie we saw at the Wisconsin Film Festival was the very Russian film Elena. How Russian? In the first scene, the sun rises behind the curtained windows of an upscale house, as viewed through the limbs of a leafless tree. The sun hasn’t risen at the beginning of the scene, in which the Read.
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Ecstasy of Order
Have you ever played Tetris, the video game where you have to stack blocks of different shapes that come falling from the top of the screen? The game appeared first in the early 1980s and has been around ever since, but the first national competition of Tetris players to find a champion didn’t take place Read.
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Tomboy
A young girl, Laure, and her family move into a new neighborhood. When she goes out to play and make friends with the neighborhood kids, they mistake her for a boy. Instead of correcting them, she decides to go along with it, telling them her name is Michael. That’s the premise of Tomboy, the movie Read.
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The Intouchables
My Darling B and I stood in line for rush tickets for an hour, hoping to snag a couple tickets to see The Intouchables. It was the first time we’ve rushed a movie, but this was one of our first picks, and we had tickets reserved until The Great Ticket Snafu of 2012 knocked them Read.
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Compliance
Compliance is probably one of the most effective dramatizations of real events I have ever seen, precisely because, as I was watching, it was so hard to believe it was based on real events, or ever could be. It baffled me that anybody, anywhere could be so ignorant of their personal rights, or could cave Read.
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The Entertainers
Oh thank goodness there are documentaries like The Entertainers, the best film we saw all day, and I’m not alone in saying that. It was one of those rare films that has scenes so enjoyable that the audience applauds for them, and people walk out gushing about their favorite. In ninety minutes, the film tells Read.
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Margaret
Allison Janney is one of my favorite actors. I’ve seen her in Juno, Ten Things I Hate About You and American Beauty, among a few other movies, but she’s probably still best known for playing the part of CJ Cregg in the television series The West Wing. Janney enters an early scene in Margaret dragging Read.
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Sleepless Night
The discussion at the office one day was what kind of action movies we liked. “I like blowing-shit-up movies,” one guy said. “I could watch shit getting blown up all day.” One gal liked action movies with lots of sex in them. One guy liked action stars that beat the crap out of everyone and Read.
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The Day He Arrives
It looks as though we’re doomed to see at least one really boring movie each day of the film festival this year, and yesterday it was The Day He Arrives. It wasn’t as bad as Keyhole, thank goodness – that’s a bar set so low that it’s going to take a limbo master of a Read.
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priority
Over lunch today, I warned My Darling B that if I won $650 million in the Powerball lottery, I would probably blow it all fixing up the Orpheum theater so I could watch my favorite films. She said she’s on board with it, as long as she gets to mix classic cocktails at the bar. Read.
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