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Written by Charles Lieurance
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THE COUNTERFEITER (Dir. Stefan Ruzowitzky)
Finally, a Holocaust film that manages to be intelligently engaging
without making every victim a saint & relying on overly-established
cinematic views of the Nazi concentration camps. Director Ruzowitzky
(who also helmed the fine German horror film, Anatomy, 2000) even manages to let humor seep in naturally, as a mere consequence of life, not as a defilement of historic reverence...
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Written by Charles Lieurance
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SHINE
A LIGHT
The Rolling Stones make a mad grab for the fountain of youth using Martin Scorcese as point man. But hey, Scorcese's no spring chicken either...
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Written by Charles Lieurance
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NEW RELEASES FOR JULY 8, 2008
PICK OF THE WEEK:
The Ruins (Dir. Carter Smith)
While on vacation in Mexico, six perfectly likable young men &
women are quarantined atop an ancient Mayan temple by villagers who
fear the spread of the flesh-eating plants that virtually carpet the
ruins. Considering his prior vocation as a fashion photographer, Carter
Smith's film is far from superficial. The Ruins is a horror film where
everybody has their reasons, characters function intelligently in three
dimensions & the gore is effective because we care about the
victims, not because we care about the special effects wizard.
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Written by Charles Lieurance
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NEW RELEASES FOR JUNE 24th/JULY 1st
10,000 B.C.
(Dir. Roland
Emmerich)
It was the year
the Giant Beaver, the Dire Wolf and the Short-Faced Bear became extinct. Homo
floresiensis was on its last legs and Mesolithic culture was all the rage.
French people were painting the walls of caves and the Spanish, Swiss and
Scottish were painting pebbles. Somewhere in Persia someone had the good sense
to domesticate goats. Feeling nostalgic yet? I mean, filmically speaking, this
kind of cultural and environmental upheaval didn't occur again until the 70s
dumped a truckload of glitter all over the umkempt, exhausted, acid-addled
corpse of the 1960s...
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