Movie: Dogville
Dogville Length: 2 hours 57 minutes Studio: Lions Gate Films Website: http://www.dogville.dk/ Release Date: 2004-05-28 Cast: Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall, Harriet Andersson, Jean-Marc Barr Director: Lars von Trier Screenwriter: Lars von Trier WorkNameSort: Dogville Our Rating: 5.00 What we have here is classic drama stripped down to its essentials. In telling the tale…
When doves fly
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Movie: Young Adam
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Movie: Maestro
Maestro Length: 1 hour 29 minutes Studio: Artrution Productions, Door A Release Date: 2004-05-28 Cast: Larry Levan, David Mancuso, Frankie Knuckles, Nicky Siano, Francis Grasso Director: Josell Ramos Screenwriter: Josell Ramos WorkNameSort: Maestro Our Rating: 2.50 In the early 1980s, I knew a New York club DJ who had no concept of musical symmetry. He’d…
Movie: Dogville
Our Rating: 5.00 What we have here is classic drama stripped down to its essentials. In telling the tale of a mysterious city girl (Nicole Kidman) who seeks asylum in a mountain town, writer/director von Trier has removed almost every element that could qualify as a distraction. All of the action takes place on one…
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Movie: Maestro
Our Rating: 2.50 In the early 1980s, I knew a New York club DJ who had no concept of musical symmetry. He’d drop out a vocal track on the last line of a rhyme scheme and then wonder why it left listeners feeling anxious and unsatisfied. He’d probably see nothing wrong with Maestro, a sprawling…
Review – Box of Scorpions
Artist: Scorpions
Necks to you
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Review – Tango Varòn
Artist: Sandra Luna
Custody’s last stand
Movie: Raising Helen
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Our Rating: 3.00 For Joe (Ewan McGregor), life is slow and squalid. But that’s your lot when you work and sleep on a Scottish barge. Too studly – if not too virtuous – for his surroundings, Joe passes the time by helping himself to handfuls of his boss’s frumpish wife (Tilda Swinton). Beneath his overgrown-schoolboy…
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Ever since I was a little girl I’ve wanted to be a dancer. I’ve wanted to thud my weatheredtoe-shoes together in three dusty repetitions and poof into a Debbie Allen Afro-ascent high in the sky like a flame. Or sport a Jennifer Beals wig and spread my legs like a stand-in, low on the floor,…
