Name: Jules Alder
Dateline: Pittsburgh, PA
Weblog: tonsofvisualinformation.blogspot.com
Articles: 16
First Published: Thursday, May 18, 2006
Last Published: Monday, September 25, 2006
Currently listing articles 16-1:
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Movie Review: Double Indemnity— The sun may rise and set elsewhere, but in the black and white world of eternal noir night, the bottom line sets the bar.
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Movie Review: Little Miss Sunshine— Like many indie films, Sunshine uses time and plot sparingly, yet in such a way that leaves the viewer with the feel of a full
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Movie Review: Modern Times— Chaplin's visual antics possess warmth, depicting the poor blue-collar worker as the salt of the earth.
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Movie Review: Casablanca— Perhaps the shining moment occurs when the German officers stand to sing their national anthem...
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Movie Review: Swing Time— "I just pick myself up, dust myself off, and start all over again..."
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Movie Review: 8 1/2— Vivid imagery and guilt-laden layers blight the more salient moments of a childhood.
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Movie Review: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada— The greatest aspect of the film remains its wonderfully indie imperfections
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DVD Review: Closely Watched Trains— A bold and kind treatment of the enduring reality of the human spirit.
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Movie Review: The Searchers— There's something hard enough about raising a family that somehow augments the difficulty of doing so in the pioneer days.
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DVD Review: Bande à Parte— It ends, as it began, at nowhere, but at least the journey held some little magic as it went along.
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DVD Review: Yes— The tides have shifted since the days of Capulet and Montague.
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DVD Review: Saraband (2005)— Realism provides the backdrop for Bergman's final adieu to the silver screen, but hope drives it home.
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DVD Review: Waking Life (2001)— "We are the authors of ourselves, co-authoring a gigantic Dostoevsky novel, starring clowns."
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DVD Review: Pyaasa (1957)— ...the film unfolds the nature of the man himself though the lens of his country.
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DVD Review: Gone With the Wind (1939)— If there's any relationship that Margaret Mitchell understands, it's that of predator and prey.
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Movie Review: Inside Man (2006)— Politically charged yet witty, the film world's angriest auteur may actually have been prescribed this script by his therapist.
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