Monthly Archives: February 2005

napoleon dynamite

Posted on 2/18/2005 by arnab

anyone else seen this? watched it a couple of nights ago. don’t really know what to make of it, but i did enjoy it. like something todd solondz might make if he wasn’t a miserable git–skirts the lines between caricature, … Continue reading →

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Oscar predictions again?

Posted on 2/17/2005 by john

Oscars are coming up, don’t forget. Shall we take another stab at looking at the trends in this year’s nominations and discussing what folks can expect at the ceremony? Arnab started us with a few ideas. He’s under the assumption … Continue reading →

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Million $ Dead Baby — or, Disabilities on Parade

Posted on 2/14/2005 by reynolds

Okay. A student just wrote me an impassioned defense of Eastwood’s “Million $ Baby,” deploring how its complex character study has been turned into mere politics. He makes a reasonable case, but I wrote him back a rant about disabilities … Continue reading →

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festen

Posted on 2/12/2005 by arnab

we dogme 95′ers never use the english translation of a non-english film’s title to refer to it, no sir. i don’t know that i understand what all the dogme criteria are but this cheery little danish film about incest, child-molestation … Continue reading →

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melancholy baby

Posted on 2/11/2005 by michael

Whenever I read Film Comment magazine, as I’m doing now, I feel particularly stupid. First it is unlikely that I will see the new retrospective of whatever at Lincoln Center, and second, I rarely know the celebrated Turkish, Georgian or … Continue reading →

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oscar predictions?

Posted on 2/10/2005 by arnab

we’ve barely watched any of the nominees in the major categories, but if “ray” is nominated for best picture it must mean it is a bad year. i’m currently going with “million dollar baby” as best picture and scorcese finally … Continue reading →

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watched but as yet unblogged

Posted on 2/9/2005 by arnab

in reverse order of viewing: 1. “the business of fancydancing”–promoted this one after mike’s endorsement. we liked it a lot (maybe sunhee will post her thoughts as well). some of the acting was a little amateurish (a lot of first-time … Continue reading →

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Early-morning thread

Posted on 2/7/2005 by reynolds

Okay, instead of prepping class, as I should, a hello–this board has been a bit arid, of late. But I haven’t seen much. “Ray” is in my queue, but dropped precipitously after Arnab and John chewed it up and spat … Continue reading →

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ray

Posted on 2/5/2005 by arnab

we watched this last night. i found it to be curiously uninvolving. the parts that worked best were the musical performances (with ray charles singing). the rest was mostly trite psychologizing, shuffling around questions of history, and the occasional quincy … Continue reading →

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