Category: Mystery/Thriller
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Movie Review: “Arbitrage” (Nicholas Jarecki, USA 2012)
Much of the publicity related to this film was about the Academy Award chances of star Richard Gere, who had been a significant star for over three decades without getting a nod from the Academy. It was rarely mentioned that the reason he never got a nomination is that he is barely even an actor,…
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Movie Review: “Blow-Up” (Michelangelo Antonioni, UK/USA 1966)
Ranked #144 on 2012 Sight & Sound Critics Poll Ranked #54 on 2012 Sight & Sound Directors Poll There are many directors and many films that are extremely highly thought of that I’ve just never gotten around to seeing even though I’ve meant to, and Michelangelo Antonioni is at the top of that director list.…
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Movie Review and Other Thoughts: “Vertigo” (Alfred Hitchcock, USA 1958)
Sight & Sound, the world’s premier film journal, last year published the results of its once-per-decade Greatest Film of All-Time poll, which is the only such poll anyone actually cares about. While I was rather unsurprised to see it happen, the headline for most was the toppling of Citizen Kane as the top film, a…
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