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...offensive portrayal of blacks and women in The Birth of a Nation. As each show is remixed live, each performance is unique, and on any given night, he might emphasize one of several themes: the stereotyping of women and African-Americans, the disenfranchisement of black voters, or the film??s graphic violence...
...Needle In The Hay” is used to great effect at the lowest point of The Royal Tenenbaums, but could Elliott Smith have raised himself from his perpetual melancholy to write anything happy enough to rival “Judy Is a Punk” for the film??s lighter moments? There’s no way, and the film benefits from the diversity of its songs and artists, hand-picked to ensure the greatest cohesion with the film...
Take, for example, the film??s showcase scene: Travolta and Uma Thurman dancing together in a direct nod to their iconic scene in Pulp Fiction, a movie whose success built off the relaxed rapport of its characters. Here, there is no charisma. It appears as though the actors are simply enjoying their paychecks and investing almost none of their acting passion in the scene. Eating that extra Happy Meal and killing Bill have tired out these once-sprightly performers, and the scene fails...
This is not When Harry Met Sally, but Hitch does perform one of that film??s most astonishing tricks: Hitch believably turns Kevin James into a romantic lead worthy of Amber Valletta. If nothing else, the film is inspiring for all those goofy, awkward, smart Harvard men without many social skills...
...Kwon Taek is a director who, without overstatement, has dominated the Korean film industry. The extent of Im’s influence and the range of subjects he has treated—not to mention his prolificacy, as he nears his hundredth film??are simply extraordinary. The first American scholarly work on Korean film proposed as its title a simple apposition: Im Kwon Taek: the Making of a Korean National Cinema. Domestic ticket sales confirm what Kyung Hyun Kim, the UCLA professor who wrote the book in question, suggests: that the significance of Im’s work...