Notebook Reviews: Jonas Mekas' "Sleepless Nights Stories"
Jesse CataldoFrom Jonas Mekas comes a peripatetic nocturnal diary bound thematically by invocations of Dante, The Arabian Nights and Japanese haiku.
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Notebook Reviews: Lynne Ramsay’s “We Need to Talk About Kevin”
Fernando F. CroceLynne Ramsay’s third feature is a mishmash of soiled diapers, leaden musical cues and underlined soul-sickness,
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Notebook Reviews: Tomas Alfredson's "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"
Ignatiy VishnevetskyGary Oldman, a bunch of bald guys, and a whole lot of typewriters star in this curio cabinet John le Carré adaptation.
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Notebook Reviews: Martin Scorsese’s "Hugo"
Fernando F. CroceThis restless phantasmagoria is fond, melancholy and not quite serene.
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Notebook Reviews: Steve McQueen's "Shame"
Ignatiy VishnevetskySteve McQueen’s vague new movie wears its emptiness like a badge of honor.
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Notebook Reviews: Takeshi Kitano's "Outrage"
Daniel KasmanOutrage is a minimal but forceful answer, full of precision and self-critique, to fans who want more yakuza from Takeshi Kitano.
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Notebook Reviews: Bertrand Bonello's "L'apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close)" a.k.a. "House of Pleasures"
Daniel KasmanBertrand Bonello’s turn of the century brothel film leaves behind something mysterious, lingering, like some left hanging in a vacated room.
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Notebook Reviews: David Cronenberg's "A Dangerous Method"
Daniel KasmanDavid Cronenberg’s film tackles Jung, Freud and psychosexual frontiers with a supreme, stately restraint.
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Notebook Reviews: Lars von Trier's "Melancholia"
Daniel KasmanThe delirious, tragic romance of woman’s anxiety is at the center of the new Lars von Trier.
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Notebook Reviews: Werner Herzog's "Into the Abyss"
Daniel KasmanWerner Herzog turns to a small town in Texas and a death penalty case to find alien expressions of violence and grief.
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Notebook Reviews: Victor Trivas' "Niemandsland" ("No Man's Land")
Daniel KasmanAt New York’s MoMA, Victor Trivas’ incredible 1931 early Talkie war film essay and dramatic allegory gets a restoration and screening.
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Notebook Reviews: Sergei Loznitsa's "My Joy"
Daniel KasmanOne of Cannes 2010’s finest competition entries sees a U.S. release.