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...highly placed government figures. He begins leaving enigmatic clues about the real criminals with a harassed detective and this unbalanced man ends up restoring something like balance to a complex and elegantly realized corner of the world-how many Belgian movies have you seen? Not often explored in the cinema...
...Once the brand name of serious cinema, later ignored, left for dead, Bergman roared back at age 85 with his first film made for theatrical release in 20 years. A sequel of sorts to his Scenes from a Marriage in 1972, Saraband reunites the main couple, Johan (Erland Josephson) and Marianne (Liv Ullmann), for an icy tri-generational trauma that involves Johan?s widowed son Henrik (B?rje Ahlstedt) and Henrik?s teenage daughter Karin (Julia Dufvenius). The movie asks: How dependent is Henrik on the daughter he loves, perhaps to excess? How dependent is Johan on the son he hates...
...espionage-thriller genre conventions prevents the film from becoming ideologically burdensome. The coincidence of casting Daniel Craig, the newly appointed successor to Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, as the team’s impetuous driver links “Munich” to a rich tradition of spy cinema (and the team’s Rube Goldberg-esque bombs are more than a little reminiscent of Q’s gadgets).Taking a cue from David Cronenberg’s recent film “A History of Violence”—which similarly explored the toll violence...
...latest single from their third album, “Twin Cinema,” is a catchy, keyboard-driven romp with strangely compelling, but ultimately nonsensical, lyrics (listen for the censored Rolling Stones reference in the second verse...
...care about, then lets them sing, dance and break each other's hearts. Yet he lavishes as much attention on stillness as on sound. And while Perhaps Love has an Asian feel, its production values match those of any international film. The result is dazzling proof that Chinese cinema will no longer be confined to the twin ghettos of martial arts and art house...