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    REVIEW | Louder Than Bombs: Phillip Groning's "Into Great Silence"

    by Indiewire on February 27, 2007

    Much of the discussion surrounding "Into Great Silence," detailing the daily rituals of the monks inhabiting the Grand Chartreuse monastery in the French Alps, is sure to focus on how Phillip Groning's nearly three-hour documentary provides a window into a rarely seen spiritual world. It does perfo...

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    REVIEW | The Song Remains the Same: Michael Apted's "Amazing Grace"

    by Michael Rowin on February 21, 2007

    Contrary to what its title suggests, "Amazing Grace" isn't really about the origins of the immortal Christian hymn. Neither is it, directly, about the British slave trade. Instead it's about the tireless campaign of William Wilberforce, Member of Parliament, to abolish the slave trade in the late 18...

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    REVIEW | Britplop: Tom Vaughan's "Starter for 10"

    by Michael Koresky on February 21, 2007

    Though bolstered considerably by the fully engaged star performance of James McAvoy (whose magnetism was trammeled by the hideous racial politicking of "The Last King of Scotland"), Tom Vaughan's Brit college comedy "Starter for 10" is weighed down by something of an identity crisis. An Eighties thr...

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    REVIEW | Law & Order: Abderrahmane Sissako's "Bamako"

    by Indiewire on February 15, 2007

    When Hollywood's response to the myriad crises plaguing the African continent is to churn out well-meaning issue pictures that are little more than low-rent action narratives grafted onto exoticized, strife-ridden African settings (see: "Catch a Fire," "Blood Diamond"), films like "Bamako" become al...

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    REVIEW | In the Middle: Dalia Hager and Vidi Bilu's "Close to Home"

    by Chris Wisniewski on February 14, 2007

    A barely perceptible atmosphere of dread hangs over the Israeli film "Close to Home." Co-written and directed by Dalia Hager and Vidi Bilu, the film has an intimate, almost slight feel to it, and features two young protagonists who are mostly concerned with the rather banal business of early adultho...

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    REVIEW | Aftermath: Jasmila Zbanic's "Grbavica: Land of My Dreams"

    by Michael Rowin on February 13, 2007

    Jasmila Zbanic's feature debut, "Grbavica: Land of My Dreams" is unpretentious enough to address its subject matter, the shattered lives of postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina, with serious, grounded realism, but it's also too unimaginative to think of its central mother-daughter struggle in anything but the...

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    REVIEW | A Wink and a Smile: Daniele Thompson's "Avenue Montaigne"

    by Nick Pinkerton on February 11, 2007

    I doubt that anyone will ever match the balanced stridency and sentimentality that Jonathan Richman's song "Give Paris One More Chance" manages as a bursting, corny catalog of everything right about "the home of Piaf and Chevalier," but "Avenue Montaigne" takes a crack. The film's helmed by Daniele ...

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    REVIEW | Echo Chamber: Nina Toussaint and Massimo Iannetta's "The Decomposition of the Soul"

    by Michael Rowin on February 8, 2007

    In Nina Toussaint and Massimo Iannetta's documentary "The Decomposition of the Soul" two ex-inmates of Berlin-Hohenschonhausen, one of the most infamous Stasi prisons of East Germany, revisit the site of their incarceration. Sigrid Paul was arrested for harboring escapees from the Soviet zone, and o...

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    REVIEW | I Spy: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's "The Lives of Others"

    by Chris Wisniewski on February 8, 2007

    Curiously - or perhaps not - the four decades of economic hardship and political oppression endured by the citizens of the former German Democratic Republic have, in the years since reunification, given way to "Ostalgie," a pervasive nostalgia for life in the GDR (see, as an example, Wolfgang Becker...

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    REVIEW | More Tales of the City: Maria Maggenti's "Puccini for Beginners"

    by Nick Pinkerton on January 31, 2007

    Allegra (Elizabeth Reaser) is a thirtyish lesbian author living the sanitary, Whole Foods la vie de boheme of sitcomized contemporary Manhattan. Having just been dropped by a long-term girlfriend over commitment issues, she doubly rebounds - into both sweet, pie-faced Grace (Gretchen Mol) and of all...

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