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[See “Our Childless Dystopia” in The New Atlantis of Winter, 2007, under “Articles”]
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The idea behind this movie is mistaken, I think, but its execution makes it very watchable
[See “Conventional Cuts,” The American Spectator of December, 2006-January, 2007 under “Articles”] Discover more from James Bowman Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email. Type your email… Subscribe
The real-life version of Rocky finally gets his own movie
In his previous film, Read My Lips (Sur Mes Lèvres), of 2001, the director Jacques Audiard presented us with a Sartrean hymn to criminality as the route to personal authenticity and moral and existential purity, so it is not surprising that he should have seen in a remake of James Toback’s Fingers (1978) an opportunity…
The Newton Boys directed by Richard Linklater is the sort of movie that Hollywood made routinely 25 or 30 years ago, a movie about criminals as existential heroes—decent fellows no worse than lots of respectable folks who, though equally ready to be corrupted, haven’t the guts to go out and say “stick ’em up” as…
Another immensely watchable film from Iran, in spite a slight tendency to promote civic responsibility
