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A Star Is Born
35 A Star is Born is like a Serbian episode of MTV’s Made.
Vanja Kovacevic, who wrote, directed, edited and produced this
documentary, wants to become a drummer. The Decemberists ar
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Gus Van Sant’s Restless is a love story with carrion beetles.
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It is not uncommon for a great artist to show questionable
taste in source material. Bob Dylan recorded a Christmas album in which
he gurgled “Here Comes Santa Claus.” T.S. Eliot developed a poe
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If politics is the art of the possible, art about politics
is an inventory of the most appalling possibilities. The taint of
compromise—the incremental moral-compass adjustments that have despoile
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Real Steel is fundamentally a bad movie—obnoxious,
incoherent and sloppy—resembling nothing so much as some ’90s summer
family-film commodity fabricated to sell toys: Rock ’Em Sock More
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Cab Calloway: Sketches
60 Few
musicians whom I grew up worshipping stand taller and prouder in my
memory than Cab Calloway. With his big band swing-blues, his
unconventional dance moves and his ree
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This year’s PLGFF is a festival of missed connections.
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The 15th annual Portland Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
starts on a poignant note this weekend—the fest’s best films are about... More
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The best scene in cancer comedy 50/50 is wordless:
Newly diagnosed with a malignant nerve sheath sarcoma, Joseph
Gordon-Levitt wanders the halls of a Seattle oncology ward stoned out of
his gourd.
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Kidnapped76 Michael Haneke’s Funny Games was just a bit too touchy feely, don’t you think? And Gaspar Noé’s excruciating long takes in Irreversible
were not quite excruciating and long enough,
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As of this writing, the Oakland Athletics (full disclosure: my
Oakland Athletics), who have not posted a winning season since 2006,
are 18 games out of first place in the American League West, a div
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The great German dervish Rainer Werner Fassbinder, still
only 27 years old and already fairly deep into a frantic career of
unceasing productivity—he seemed to know he would die young—dipped his
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