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Oliver Stone does the right thing: World Trade Center (DVD)

Posted in reseña, tagged , , on August 29, 2007| Leave a Comment »

This movie should join Spielberg’s Schindler’s List and Munich—as well as Hotel Rwanda, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, and perhaps El Norte —as required ID for the historically literate American. No drinks without a card. No driver’s license, no graduation party, no nuthin’. (more…)

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good acting, mediocre film: Lady in the Water

Posted in reseña, tagged , , on August 29, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Be sure you’re wide awake when you go to see this film, because you’ll need to stay alert and attentive to get your money’s worth. (more…)

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an avenger’s tears: Eric Bana, Munich (DVD)

Posted in reseña, tagged , , , , on August 27, 2007| Leave a Comment »

It is poignantly fitting that the man who directed Schindler’s List should book-end that tale of Jewish pain with Munich, a film that tells another side of this people’s struggle to survive in a period when the Jews have a state and the ability to answer with something more than simple suffering. (more…)

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the blood of one’s brothers: Gods and Generals (DVD)

Posted in reseña, tagged , , , on August 22, 2007| Leave a Comment »

An almost endearing stiltedness undergirds this fine film’s narrative, as though set pieces have been prepared in order to allow the characters to deliver solemn speeches Though this may appear artificial and even insincere to modern movie-viewers, it is a dramatic technique at least as old as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. What Gods and Generals shares with those ancient poetic ballads is the celebration of the fighting man’s nobility, his rage, and the juxtaposition of profoundly ordinary human sentiment alongside the most inhumane deeds one can imagine. (more…)

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a completely different flight: Flight 93. The Movie (DVD)

Posted in reseña, tagged , on August 22, 2007| Leave a Comment »

This fine A&E reenactment of one slice of the confusing events of September 11, 2001 succeeds in showing the combination of ad hoc citizen response and highly professional management that greeted the high-speed unfolding of those incomprehensible events. (more…)

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too hungry for it all: Educating Rita (DVD)

Posted in reseña, tagged , on August 22, 2007| 2 Comments »

This jewel of a film ought to be seen by all who teach, learn, or wish they were doing either.

Julie Walters turns in the Oscar-nominated performance of a lifetime as an Open University working-class student turning up at Michael Caine’s (also Oscar nominated) Oxford rooms for tutoring in literature.

The results are hilarious but – more important – deeply revealing of the pretensions on both sides of the class gap that separates these two stars of this low-budget 1983 production. (more…)

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‘Something relatively devastating’: United 93 (Widescreen Edition)

Posted in reseña, tagged , on August 22, 2007| Leave a Comment »

The lives of the crew and passengers of United Flight 93 were extinguished when the Boeing 757 in which they were traveling plowed into Pennsylvania farmland on September 11, 2001. United 93 pays them apt tribute. (more…)

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Pain heals. Chicks love scars. Glory … lasts forever: The Replacements (DVD)

Posted in reseña, tagged , on August 21, 2007| Leave a Comment »

This outrageously corny 2000 flick manages to provide good laughs and some adrenaline, thanks to the on-field hits and the stormin’ music. (more…)

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