Monthly Archives: July 2009

FUNNY PEOPLE

By | July 2009

Judd Apatow deconstructs show business and reconciles humanity with the industry that often loses it. And he delivers the funniest release of the summer. (Move over, “Hangover.”)

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FUNNY PEOPLE

“Funny People” begins on a clever note, with opening shots from home movies featuring a young Adam Sandler. He performs the kind of crude improv...

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THE BOOTLEG FILES: MUSCLE VIDEO JOURNAL

BOOTLEG FILES 294: “Muscle Video Journal” (1983-1995 series of video magazines covering U.S. bodybuilding) LAST SEEN: Segments of various episodes can...

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BIRDWATCHERS

The double suicide of two teenage girls drives the Guarani-Kaiowa native Brazilian tribe to try to reclaim land taken by cattle ranchers. The...

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AUTUMN (SONBAHAR)

The high price of ten years in prison for political beliefs is somberly explored in "Autumn." A scientist/researcher, Yusuf, is released after confinement...

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ROMAN POLANSKI’S REPULSION: CRITERION COLLECTION (DVD)

For Hitchcock, it all began when his father sent him to the police station with a note, and the British police locked him up for being a bad boy (or so the...

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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA SEASON 4.5 (DVD)

(Don't worry, no spoilers follow.) "Battlestar Galactica's" final episode, "Daybreak," will likely rank up there with the "Sopranos" and "Seinfeld"...

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LEFT BANK

Hell is upon us in the opening minutes of the Belgian film “Left Bank,” especially if we think of hell as a state of mind. Portentous imagery tosses...

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VOTE JESUS: THE CHRONICLES OF KEN STEVENSON

“Vote Jesus” is the anti-“Religulous.” Not because Vermin Supreme, who wears a conservative guise in order to infiltrate the religious right,...

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PONYO

Hayao Miyazaki, like the best directors, transfixes viewers in the moment and guides them under his spell. Vibrant colors merge, elegantly mutate, while...

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I SELL THE DEAD

The joy behind this film is right there in the old-time, exploitation-tinged title. The grim undertakings of the storyline – about a pair of grave...

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