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Jul
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Six Films Made by Women Working in Typically Male Genres Also! An article on the split between TLA Entertainment and the Philadelphia Film Society — and what that means for the city’s film festivals — a buncha caps for one of those fests (the Q Fest, formerly the Philadelphia Int. Gay and Lesbian Film Festival) and a review of Kathryn Bigelow’s quite awesome The Hurt Locker.

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Jun
23rd
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Shoot, by performance artist Chris Burden. Huh.

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Jun
19th
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The Woody Breakdown

A Bananas, Sleeper, Annie Hall, Manhattan

A- Love and Death, Radio Days

B+ Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah & Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Deconstructing Harry

B Take the Money and Run, Stardust Memories, Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose, Husbands and Wives, Bullets Over Broadway, Sweet and Lowdown, Vicky Cristina Barcelona

B- What’s Up, Tiger Lily?; Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask), Mighty Aphrodite, Everyone Says I Love You, Match Point

C+ Interiors, Celebrity, Cassandra’s Dream, Whatever Works

C A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, Another Woman, New York Stories (Oedipus Wrecks), Alice, Shadows and Fog, Small Time Crooks, Hollywood Ending, Anything Else

C- September, Melinda & Melinda, Scoop

D+ The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

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Jun
17th
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Six Caucasian Actors Unconvincingly Playing Native American Also! A round-up of recent DVDs/BDs and reviews of Food, Inc. and Herb and Dorothy.

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Jun
16th
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Joseph Strick’s dreaded film version of Ulysses. I, of course, won’t subject myself till I’ve finished the book.  Don’t want any spoilers!

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Happy Bloomsday!

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No longer available on Netflix. And I’m not paying $8 off Amazon Marketplace. As the man says, never put off tomorrow (or years) what you can do today. Sob.
No longer available on Netflix. And I’m not paying $8 off Amazon Marketplace. As the man says, never put off tomorrow (or years) what you can do today. Sob.

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Jun
10th
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Six Novelists Who Wrote Screenplays Plus! Reviews of Away We Go, The Merry Gentleman, Pressure Cooker and the Oscar-nabbing Departures.

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Wtf. Trailer for Ken Russell’s Lisztomania, starring Roger Daltrey as Liszt and Ringo as the Pope, plus music by Yes’ Rick Wakeman (um, Liszt wasn’t good enough?). The film is finally out on DVD in the UK.

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Jun
5th
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There is officially nothing I like more right now than The Thick of It, by Alan Partridge co-conspirator Armando Ianucci. Get with it now before its apparently very funny movie spin-off, In the Loop, comes out this summer. Also of, um, interest, the, er, real-life, urm, fall of its brilliant co-lead Chris Langham.

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