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...piece, with a dozen or so character actors carrying the storyline. Finally, Changeling - like most Eastwood movies - is exactly as good as its makings. In its purposeful accumulation of depravities, both individual and institutional, the director's non-style has an honorable payoff that's rare in modern Hollywood cinema: the story's weight could come close to burying you in despair...
...inundated with information about the Middle East and especially Palestine and the Palestinians, but most people lack an understanding of the situation.” For many filmmakers, the festival helped provide valuable exposure and a venue for their art. “Palestinian cinema deserves a festival and a venue on its own merit regardless of the political atmosphere that surrounds it,” Ayyash said. “This medium of film is an art form that can help interested people really understand the human conditions of another group of people that seem so far and removed...
...David Fincher's Se7en: "More than the director knows, or gives himself a chance to notice, the film identifies with and embodies that cruel intellectual superiority of the killer. To that extent, Se7en-quite beautiful and piercing-is one of the most truly sadistic works the cinema has produced. Its very achievement is disgusting...
...with the driving instructor, are typical of Mike Leigh at his best. He works in an improvisatory yet controlled, way with his actors to shape and sharpen his material, and when that technique works, as it so often does in this movie, the results are unique in the contemporary cinema - behavioral honesty and intensity raised to a flash point. If this be comedy, it is so only in the nominal sense that no one dies at the end of the picture...
...would love to be able to say that I’m well-versed in American cinema, but when I really think about it, I’d be hard-pressed to name a pre-1975 film I’ve seen that doesn’t star Brando or Newman or the Marx Brothers. Though I’ve seen many of the best and worst films of the last two decades, I have little to no knowledge of B-movies or older exploitation films. To be honest, I hadn’t even heard the word...