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Remains of the Day, The (1993)

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2008-01-11 03:07:54 by Joe Valdez in This Distracted Globe
...Remains of the Day was a 1989 novel by Japanese born British author Kazuo Ishiguro . It won Englands top literary award, the Booker McConnell Prize. Esteemed playwright Harold Pinter read the book while it was still in galleys and liked it so much that he optioned the film rights. Once the book became a bestseller, Pinter was inundated with...
 
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Remains of the Day

2006-11-04 12:23:00 by Bosco in Bosco's Film Notes
 
Remains of the Day 2003 Taken from the novel of the same name by the Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro this film is an impeccable drama set in the 1930s during a time when England sought to help and appease Germany. Anthony Hopkins plays Mr Stevens, who is the butler of a rather large estate. We follow Mr Stevens through his daily duties, who has...
 
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The Eyes Of Laura Mars

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2008-03-25 05:34:00 by Jeremy Richey in Moon In The Gutter
...remains one of the slickest and most effective American thrillers of the late seventies. Bolstered by an intense lead performance by Faye Dunaway and some very memorable photography by Helmut Newton, Eyes Of Laura Mars was a fairly big hit back in 1978 but is often overlooked as one of the more memorable films of the period Carpenter had come...
 
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Redbelt & Taken

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2008-10-03 15:07:00 by John in Confessions of a Film Critic
...remains a character without a story of his own, a collection of ideas and surface indicators. Its to Ejiofors credit that he remains as watchable as he does for as long as he does Redbelt might appear tough but Mamet pulls too many of his punches, unable to communicate Mikes impotent rage with the same verve he brings to the spitfire...
 
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Lucifer Rising, Come Into My World; or Welcome the Children of Anger

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2007-12-03 13:33:00 by Joe in Fin de cinema
...remains her most (in)famous video and " It's Oh So Quiet " her most popular, Cunninghams All Is Full of Love brilliantly compliments Gondrys Come into My World in its critical assessment of the music itself underneath such ecstatically astounding technicality. Here, two robot Björks (literally) embrace romantically, their movements...
 
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Truth Or Illusion? Seven Different Biopics

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2008-01-08 17:53:19 by Kim Morgan in Sunset Gun
...remains radical, even today. Though the story itself is somewhat straightforward (the fascinating life and times of Napoleon Bonaparte from childhood to French Revolution and on), Gance's ambitious, almost raving embrace of the medium is so incredibly stunning that many believe the filmmaker aligned himself with the grandiloquence and...
 
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The Wild Bunch: Cinema du Look 1981-1994

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2008-01-10 15:36:00 by Jeremy Richey in Moon In The Gutter
...remains one of the most visionary and entertaining works of the eighties. Beineix's command of the medium this early on is frankly astounding 4. ROSELYNE AND THE LIONS (1989): Beineix begins to slip here but it's still a gorgeous underrated production that deserves more recognition 5. IP5 (1992): An oddly touching but flawed production that...
 
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Redefining the Korean Family

2008-01-23 03:59:01 by Rufus in Lucid Screening - A Film Blog
 
...remains the essential building block of traditional, Confucian culture an aspect casually at odds with modern, progressive values. In times of change, national trauma is, thereby, constructed as a masculine crisis: a reluctant patriarchal power structure, comfortable with the status quo, and unwilling to affirm the growing status of women in...
 
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PEDRO COSTA (and Others) on Casa de Lava and Tarrafal, Part One

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2008-03-11 17:27:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...remains working with Édith Scob, who he admittedly adores. Scob was wonderful to him, helping him through the tough shoot. "We had nothing. We had no lights. We had no energy. We had no trucks. It was like a mini- Apocalypse Now for me. [It was] too much for us Costa cautions that Casa de Lava is a confusing film that leaves the viewer a...
 
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The 1970s Also-Rans - 25 That Missed the Cut

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2008-05-29 02:45:27 by clydefro in clydefro
...remains a powerful experience. Fassbinder directs and plays Fox, a former carnival worker who finally wins the lottery and soon has his fortune spent by a posh and prissy lover. Im never ready to watch a Fassbinder film and I usually have a difficult time getting over the experience. Fox and His Friends is exceptional