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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tender story of a boy and his kestrel, way up at number four in Best Film of the Last 30 Or So Years. Although few of us perhaps could say what a kestrel is--even though it is totally the coolest, supposedly able to hover Harrier-like in the air--we would do well to follow the Brit crits' lead: though not the best example, My Name Is Joe is another acceptable slice of Loach's British social realism...
Believe it or not, this situation had its comic moments. Libby's house was a block from mine in a Bel Air canyon. When the flood rains came, the mudslides simultaneously filled my house and his well-stocked bomb-shelter (food and booze) from floor to ceiling...
...posh, upper-crust Rushmore Academy, Max is a bright kid but a lousy student, mainly because he serves as the head of nearly two dozen extracurricular activities, ranging from the fencing team to the beekeepers club to the Model Russian UN. Bouncing from project to project with an air of confidence and disarming maturity, Max truly defies description--he's the epitome of the teenager who stands out from the crowd and is darn proud to do so. The other great character is Herman Blume (Bill Murray), a burnt-out, self-loathing steel tycoon, who has both succeeded tremendously...
...Whether stuffing a little kid on a playground basketball court or running over Max's bike and carrying it nonchalantly back to the bike rack, Murray is perfectly tuned into the essence of Herman Blume. Schwartzman, on the other hand, succeeds not because he easily slips into Max's air of self-confidence, but because he is willing to give the viewer glimpses of what the character really is--an inexperienced 15-year-old putting on a front of institutional disdain. Whether Schwartzman is really a gifted actor or just a sharp kid playing shades of himself will be determined...
...early canons. My favorite piece of the evening was a series of variations by Jacob Reys on the popular tune Une Jeune Fillette, in which the melody is tossed back and fourth between two voices that seem never quite to catch it. The melody is continually in the air, bouncing like a beach ball on the contrapunctal complexity of the music...