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[See “Entry from July 2, 2008” under “My Diary”]
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The 12 year-old eponymous hero of Stephen Daldry’s Billy Elliot, played by Jamie Bell, is made to say more than once that “just ‘cause I like ballet it doesn’t mean I’m a poof.” Sounds reasonable to me. But the film itself has a different story to tell. Both the introduction of Billy’s cross-dressing schoolboy friend,…
A paean to tough women is perhaps not the best way of exploring feminine vulnerabilities, but a portrait of a psycho-bitch is always something that will find a market.
Jackie Chan’s First Strike, directed by Stanley Tong, is another example of the only kind of action film I seem to get any enjoyment out of anymore. Most of them are so artificial and unbelievable: special effects overwhelming the human element. But the remarkable Jackie Chan does action at the human level. This he gets…
A bleak, Third World love story that requires — but does not necessarily repay — a good deal of patience
Is it possible to make a movie about reality TV that’s more cheesy than reality TV? Amazingly enough, it is.
A much too long and incoherent but always watchable journey into the ever-stranger country of the 1970s.
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