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Learning to Fly with Carl Fredricksen
Thirty years ago, I watched Richard Pryor sell some balloons to Gonzo the Great at a county fair. As Gonzo eyed those colorful helium-filled spheres, Pryor went for the hard sell: “I have guys come in all the time. Sometimes, they'll get a buncha balloons for their girls, and...they go gaga for it.” Gonzo’s eyes widened. “Gaga?”....
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Blood, Sweat, and Tears in Munyurangabo
Sangwa’s family stands in a line, raising their picks, and striking the ground again, again, and again. In writing about director Lee Isaac Chung’s first feature film, Munyurangabo, it may seem strange that I’m singling out this lengthy, unremarkable shot of the characters farming. After all, this is a suspenseful story about....
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Worth Something
Olivier Assayas’ beautiful new movie Summer Hours begins as three successful, well-educated siblings reunite in the backyard of the rural French house where they grew up. They’re celebrating their mother’s birthday with a leisurely party on her beautiful....
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On Earth as it is in Heaven
Sharing cigarettes, two boys recline on a sun-baked rock high above their village. Here, close to heaven, they’re able to forget their troubles and enjoy the view. A gunshot jolts them from their reverie. Down among the technicolor trees, a hunter blasts....
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Neil Gaiman's Girls, Part 2
Having covered Coraline in my previous post, I’d like to call attention to Neil Gaiman's other recent variation on Alice in Wonderland, a film that slipped past most moviegoers in 2005 with very little fanfare. Seek it out and I suspect you'll agree—MirrorMask is every bit as original and....
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Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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