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Regarding the Other

October 12, 2012by consideringfilm Leave a comment

Andrea Arnold’s Heathcliff is sort of a bastard.  Not in the sense that nothing is known of his lineage — he’s just a downright selfish and obstinate bastard.  Of course, […]

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“What can I say? I like a winner.”

October 5, 2012by consideringfilm Leave a comment

Todd Solondz has at this point firmly established himself as the preeminent chronicler of the rotten underbelly of suburbia. His characters are often vile, deplorable, riddled with insecurities; they tend […]

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A Film Like Its Subject: Beautiful, Compelling, Confounding, and Incomplete

September 28, 2012by consideringfilm Leave a comment

Brit Marling is a bright woman, and an admirable one as well. After graduating with an economics degree from Georgetown, she turned down a lucrative career at Goldman Sachs to […]

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“He took the drink himself, I didn’t poison him.”

September 21, 2012by consideringfilm 3 Comments

Lancaster Dodd and Freddie Quell, the protagonists of Paul Thomas Anderson’s exemplary film The Master, are not quite so different.  Freddie (Joaquin Phoenix), while in the Navy, has developed an […]

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“You have to insist you’re right even if you know you’re wrong.”

September 13, 2012by consideringfilm Leave a comment

This review was originally published 4 October 2007.  Several references to relative dates have been updated to reflect this current posting. The 2000 Presidential election has special significance to me.  […]

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

September 13, 2012by consideringfilm Leave a comment

“I am able to have sex with any beautiful woman I want just because I am so great.” In many ways — many more than are readily apparent — the […]

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