Children of Men
[See “Our Childless Dystopia” in The New Atlantis of Winter, 2007, under “Articles”]
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[See “Our Childless Dystopia” in The New Atlantis of Winter, 2007, under “Articles”]
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Who’d have thought it? It seems that somewhere in Hollywood’s parallel universe the Sharks and the Jets are still rumbling.
The Dreamlife of Angels (in French La Vie Revée des Anges) by Érick Zonca is by far the best picture I have seen this year and one of the best I have ever seen. I can’t remember the last time I came staggering out of a movie, as I did out of this one, literally…
Requiem for a Dream, directed by Darren Aronofsky (Pi) from a script he wrote with Hubert Selby, Jr. (Last Exit to Brooklyn) and based on the latter’s novel, has a promising beginning. We see Harry Goldfarb (Jared Leto) stealing his own mother’s television set in order to pawn it for drug money. His mother, Sara…
A curious, fly-on-the-wall documentary about some Kansan conservatives mixed with a subdued polemic from Thomas Frank that answers the question of its title only for the cognoscenti
A remarkable evocation by the director of Central Station of life in the outback of Brazil 90 years ago is spoiled by a facile ending.
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