Saturday, January 23, 2016

Moonwalkers: Tarantino On Acid Subversive Sixties Stoner Satire

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Moonwalkers may be a sixties cold war comedy about US media machinations to make it to the moon first, but its combo ballsy big screen...

Liza Bear: Best Films, Released And Unreleased In The US

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            Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief --Court --Timbuktu --Taxi --Mustang --The New Girl-Friend --The Assas...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Court: A Conversation With Indian Filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane

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By Liza Bear '...The film is outstanding in its acute observation of courtroom protocols and procedures, arcane colonial-era laws ...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Arts Express: The Most Dangerous Man In America. A Conversation With Director Woodie King Jr.

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“I have been despised for so long for being Black, that to tell me you will despise me because now I declare myself officially Red,...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

Tribeca 2015: Jimmy's Hall Illuminates Occupy Movement A Century Ago

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Some movies are miracles simply for existing, warts and all. And Jimmy's Hall is certainly among them, in excavating a past that thos...
Friday, April 24, 2015

Tribeca 2015: Stranded In Canton

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 By Liza Bear New York, April 24--looks like Denmark picked off a lot of awards at Tribeca....I missed both Bridgend and Virgin Mountai...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

The Anti-Oscars 2014: The James Agee Cinema Cinema Circle Awards

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In case you're wondering why all those critics groups and movie guild organizations out there seem to inevitably choose the same awar...
Saturday, December 27, 2014

Manos Sucias: A Conversation With Director Josef Wladyka

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By Liza Bear MANOS SUCIAS is a well-researched, tightly scripted first film co-written and directed by Josef Wladyka which prem...
Friday, December 26, 2014

Women and Economics In Holocaust Movies

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  Phoenix Movie Review: Nazi Sympathetic Ambivalence And Identification With The Oppressor In Holocaust Movies The proliferation of Ho...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

Arts Express: Moscow On The Line Talking Socialist Realism, Snowden, Ukraine Uprising And Obama/Putin Crisis

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**Socialist Realism at the Moscow Lumiere Brothers Center For Photography: Media Acheology, Industrial Aesthetics, Cultural Shifts. Cur...