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Gravity’s Message is Too Earthbound

October 4, 2013by consideringfilm 4 Comments

WARNING: This review contains spoilers, including a discussion of the film’s ending. Being stranded in outer space is a terror of unfathomable proportions for most.  Beyond the purely logistic horrors […]

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“This can’t be the end of the dream.”

March 28, 2013by consideringfilm 1 Comment

There is an ephemeral quality to the films of Harmony Korine, the sense of fleeting, unguarded moments, captured perhaps by happenstance, and arranged so loosely as to seem almost plotless.  […]

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No Pain, No Gain

March 15, 2013by consideringfilm Leave a comment

The idea that sacrifice is necessary for success, that effort and expense are required to turn one’s velleity into reality, has long been encapsulated with admirable concision by the epigrammatic […]

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“It’s not easy to lead an honest life.”

March 12, 2013by consideringfilm Leave a comment

“I don’t know if I’m an alcoholic, really,” Kate Hannah says at her first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, “I just drink. I drink a lot. And I’ve always drank a lot, […]

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When Life Gives You Nerve Gas…

March 8, 2013by consideringfilm Leave a comment

Pete and Emma Mandrake’s couples’ brunches seem like a disaster waiting to happen.  The men are largely disinterested, focused instead on the score of the UT game and bidding on […]

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Good Ol’ Boys

February 22, 2013by consideringfilm Leave a comment

There’s a school of filmmaking which maintains that the director’s job is simply to hire good actors to perform a good script and then get out of the way.  While […]

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“We’ve all got stuff in our past that wasn’t too clever.”

February 15, 2013by consideringfilm Leave a comment

Expanding upon his usual theme of deception among the British upper class, Julian Fellowes’s directorial debut Separate Lies is a film with enough intelligence and insight to make up for […]

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Time Isn’t On Their Side

February 8, 2013by consideringfilm Leave a comment

Not Fade Away, David Chase’s affectionate epistle to the sixties, opens not with its own protagonists but with a dramatization of the meeting of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.  Filmed […]

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“The stars are on fire and God is very busy.”

February 1, 2013by consideringfilm 1 Comment

The 1970s are a hotbed for dramas of suburban unrest.  The 1950s were too repressed and the 1960s were too unhinged, but in American cinema, the ’70s have come to […]

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How Many Wrongs Make a Right?

January 25, 2013by consideringfilm Leave a comment

It is difficult to ascertain to what, exactly, the title of Quentin Dupieux’s latest film refers.  Almost every moment of Wrong defies the logic of narrative filmmaking; every scene is, […]

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