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Not If You Were the Last Woman in Gotham City
The Dark Knight Rises2012, USA/UKChristopher NolanThere is no shortage of ways in which the conclusion to Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, sucks. For starters, despite its...
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Five Short Recommendations, Available on Netflix
A friend of mine who just finished school asked me if I could suggest some films for him to watch on Netflix Instant. I've written a number of annotated recommendations for him, so I figured I may as...
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Five Additional Netflix Instant Suggestions
A friend of mine who just finished school asked me if I could suggest some films for him to watch on Netflix Instant. Here are five additional recommendations. I've previously written about a few of...
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Queer Lisboa 16
Though, more often than not, I don't much care for specifically GLBT film festivals, there are a small number of them around the world that do consistently program great stuff and not just the latest...
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Drug Addicts, Nymphos, Tomboys, and Paul Verhoeven: 5 More Netflix Suggestions
A friend of mine who just finished school asked me if I could suggest some films for him to watch on Netflix Instant. Here are five more recommendations. Each of the films below were available on...
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Berlin & Beyond 2012 in San Francisco
For those of you in the San Francisco Bay Area, the 17th annual Berlin & Beyond Film Festival began this evening with an opening night gala of Christian Petzold's Barbara, which took home the...
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San Francisco Screenings: October 11 - 20, 2012
I'm not quite sure how I want to format this new portion of my blog that I'm going to dedicate to exciting upcoming screenings in San Francisco, so bear with me as I figure out the best format for...
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Official Submissions for the 2013 Best Foreign Language Oscar
71 countries will be competing for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at next year's ceremony, setting a new record. A number of heavy-hitters will be vying for the award, from festival...
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RIP Sylvia Kristel
Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel, best known to the world as the sensual, globe-trotting heroine of the Emmanuelle films, died in Amsterdam on October 17 at the age of 60. After beginning her career as a...
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French Cinema Now in San Francisco, 24-30 October
Beginning today, October 24, and running through the 30th, the San Francisco Film Society will be putting on French Cinema Now, a survey of ten French (or Francophone) features from the past couple...
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Tumblr Milestones
For those of you who weren't aware, Fin de cinéma has a Tumblr sister also named Fin de cinema (though currently minus the accent-mark as whatever template I happen to be using now doesn't recognize...
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Don't You Wish You Never Met Her?
As I was scrolling through my shameless social media addiction, Instagram, a friend of mine posted a shot of the album cover for PJ Harvey's Rid of Me (and, oh, what a cover it is!), remarking "still...
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Black-Face of the 1990s?
There was something troubling about the worldview of Michael Hoffman's 1991 comedy Soapdish. Yes, the film exists in a world where the stars of a popular daytime soap opera find that their "real life"...
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What I've Been Up To
Over the past month, I've had to put movie-watching and -writing on hold, as I've been assisting in a lot of post-production shenanigans for the film Interior. Leather Bar. (formerly known as James...
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Best of 2012: Grimes - Oblivion
Over the next few weeks, I'm going to be writing about a number of my favorite things of 2012, as opposed to doing my usual Top 10 list. This will cover films, albums, songs, music videos,...
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Best of 2012: William Friedkin's Killer Joe
Killer Joe2011, USAWilliam Friedkin Over the next few weeks, I'm going to be writing about a number of my favorite things of 2012, as opposed to doing my usual Top 10 list. This will cover films,...
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Best of 2012: Bat for Lashes - Laura
I haven't loved any of Bat for Lashes' three albums from start to finish, but with each of them, I've found myself hopelessly devoted to at least one track, so much so that I've put the rest of the...
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Best of 2012: Nadav Lapid's Policeman
Policeman2011, IsraelNadav LapidIn just his second feature, Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid displays a bold confidence, narratively and stylistically, that's hard to fully grasp in a single sitting....
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Best of 2012: Leos Carax's Holy Motors
Holy Motors2012, France/GermanyLeos CaraxA lot of people have a lot of things to say about Leos Carax's Holy Motors, his first feature film in thirteen years following Pola X. I strangely do not. It...
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Acting a Fool
The Fighter2010, USADavid O. RussellBiopics of athletes sit about as far down on my list of filmic interests as anything I can think of at the moment, so describing David O. Russell's The Fighter as...
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