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 Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland or The Return of Alice
Not sure how Lewis Carroll would feel about this one.Well in "Alice in Wonderland" costumes are splendid; acting: exquisite and cast: very well suited. Helena Bonham Carter plays a perfectly dry Queen of Hearts, impatient and brainless as a card; Johnny Depp a perfectly mad Mad Hatter; Mia Wasikowska a charming and strong-willed Alice (though a bit too Hollywoodized). The characters are greatly conceived: the White Rabbit, the flowers, the fish and frog and pig and monkey servants, all the ....
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 Two Oscar Foreign Submissions That Should Have Made The Short List and Nominees
"Letters To Father Jacob": Finnish Oscar entry Klaus Haro's radiant "Letters To Father Jacob" an elegantly simple three person drama, is a jewel of a film. I had an opportunity to interview Haro at The Scandinavian Film Festival LA.Director-writer Klaus Haro (“Mother of Mine", “Elina: As if I Didn’t Exist” -both Crystal Bear recipients, Berlin; “The New Man.”) was awarded the Ingmar Bergman Award in 2004, an award chosen by Bergman himself. Haro extensively ....
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 Reviews: Shortlist for Best Foreign Film 2009
Some of my favorites foreign films submitted didn't make the shortlist; here are reviews of eight of the nine short listed nominees. "Kelin", the entry from Kazakhstan was not available for review by press date.In alphabetical order:Argentina's entry, Juan Jose Campanella's stylish genre-bending thriller "The Secret In Their Eyes" (El secreto de sus ojos) is a non-stop, witty, entertainment. Campanella (who shot episodes of Argentina's "Law and Order”) adapted Eduardo Sacheri's novel "La ....
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 A Cry Within
Contrary to its tag line "Some cries are never heard", A CRY WITHIN, a film written and directed by Frances Lozada, is one that speaks volumes. Lozada, who also stars in the short-subject with Franky G (The Italian Job, Jonny Zero), takes an emotional look at the hidden torment gay men and women face when coming to terms with their sexuality.Diore (G) and Clara (Lozada) are strangers, but are strongly connected by their own inner turmoil. Familial and societal pressures force them to suppress ....
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 Alienated
Vincent Pastore (The Sopranos) plays Gino, a calculating, serious mobster with purpose. Gino finds himself in the middle of the woods on a routine job. His job is to quiet (permanently) his target played by Louis Vanaria (A Bronx Tale). What seems like a routine job ends up turning topsy-turvy due to the very fact that Gino feels he’s being watched by extraterrestrials. While having visions of wide eye humanoid beings arriving to visit him, Gino falters in his hired job to rub out his ....
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