Month: June 2006
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Requiem For a Heavyweight (1962)
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Read more: Requiem For a Heavyweight (1962)Although Raging Bull will always hold the title among depressing boxing movies, Ralph Nelson’s 1962 downer Requiem for a Heavyweight holds its own quite nicely, refusing to give us a final triumph, or even a glimmer of hope of any kind. The film considers sad, pathetic Mountain Rivera (Anthony Quinn), a good-hearted soul (aren’t they…
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Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
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Read more: Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)Die! Die! Die, my Darling.
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A Prairie Home Companion
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Read more: A Prairie Home CompanionThe master’s swan song becomes one of his finest works.
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Art School Confidential (2006)
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Read more: Art School Confidential (2006)Holding snooty, painfully untalented art students (hell, artists in general) up to ridicule might not sound like the peak of…
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THE PROPOSITION
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Read more: THE PROPOSITIONIs it possible to be both beautiful and dull? Striking, yet on the whole, a complete waste of time?