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El Metodo

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Tense thriller about a group of prospective employees of a fictional corporation who are subjected to intense personality tests which pit them against one another with often brutal results. Makes you wonder just how far *you* might go....

Updated Jul 15, 2008

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Look Both Ways

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Intersecting stories of individuals grappling with their mortality. Very compelling.

Updated Jun 7, 2008

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Elephant

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Gus van Sant's fictional account of a high school shooting is quiet and subtle, where it could have easily been sensationalized.

Updated May 22, 2008

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Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl

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Directed by Joan Chen from an award-winning novella banned in China because of political and sexual content, "Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl" is a powerful love story. Between 1967 and 1976, nearly 8 million Chinese youths were "sent down" for specialized training to the remotest corners of the country. Before being sent down, the young and beautiful Xiu Xiu dreams of becoming a horse trainer in the wide open plains of Tibet, far away from her busy city home. Her journey begins in a training camp in the isolated plains with a solitary and mysterious man. Slowly, Xiu Xiu discovers that she is unlikely to ever see her home again without a wealthy sponsor. Her world becomes a horrifying cage, where "patrons" promise her escape in exchange for her sexual compromise. This is one girl's story and a compassionate deed that inspired one special man and everyone who hears her tale.

Updated Apr 24, 2008

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This Hour Has 22 Minutes - Season I

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The funniest thing on Canadian television. As an American living in Canada, "22 Minutes" was my primer on Canadian politics and culture.

Updated Mar 1, 2008

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Bose Zellen (Free Radicals)

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Barbara Albert's ensemble drama explores the seemingly random interactions that occur between individuals connected to Manu, an Austrian woman who miraculously survives a plane crash to die years later in a banal and unexpected auto accident. Engrossed by questions of fate and chance, Albert crafts a rich character mosaic in the tradition of Robert Altman and P.T. Anderson's Magnolia. An intelligent, viscerally intellectual exercise in ensemble acting and associative montage, enlivened with some terrific visual and dramatic ideas" (J. Hoberman, Village Voice)

Updated Feb 28, 2008

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Time of the Wolf

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The post-apocalyptic world of Time of the Wolf is never explained, but becomes all the more hypnotic for it. A mother (Isabelle Huppert, I Heart Huckabees, 8 Femmes) struggles to keep her teenage daughter and young son alive after a social collapse of unknown causes. The family, accompanied by a semi-feral teenage boy, finds a train station where other survivors have collected in an uneasy alliance. Time of the Wolf doesn't have much of a story, but its depiction of human behavior at the breaking point is stark and convincing. The always compelling Huppert and director Michael Haneke previously worked together on The Piano Teacher; Time of the Wolf lacks that movie's psychological focus, but it creates a dark world through simple but evocative means. Also featuring Beatrice Dalle (Betty Blue) and Olivier Gourmet (The Son). --Bret Fetzer

Updated Feb 26, 2008

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Fast Food Nation

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Made me glad I'm a vegetarian.

Updated Feb 23, 2008

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The Young Ones: Every Stoopid Episode

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Vyvyan, Neil, Rik, and Mike, the cool person. And the odd performance by Motorhead or Rip Rig & Panic. "Have we got a video? - YES WE'VE GOT A F***ING VIDEO!"

Updated Feb 21, 2008

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Sorry, Haters

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This is a flawed movie. The ending is problematic, both in terms of plot and style. That aside, the performances by Robin Wright Penn and Abdel Kechiche are amazing and I was on the edge of my seat from beginning to end. Thought provoking questions about privilege and class are raised as well, making this movie more than worthwhile in spite of its shortcomings.

Updated Feb 19, 2008

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