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Thursday, July 26, 2012

WE CLOSE OUR EYES


NEW TO THEATRES...

* The Watch, your summer safeguard against laughing. Trust me. You won't. Starring Stiller, Vaughn, Hill, and a bunch of dead air.

UPDATED TO CRITERION CONFESSIONS...

* Pygmalion, Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard work with George Bernard Shaw to bring his famous stageplay to the silver screen.

THIS WEEK IN BD/DVD REVIEWS...



* 1900, Gerard Depardieu and Robert De Niro star in Bernardo Bertolucci's sprawling, mad epic.

* Force of Evil, a sharp gangster picture from 1948, with John Garfield as a mob lawyer looking to take his gambling racket to the big time.

* Panda! Go, Panda! an early kids movie from Hayao Miyazaki.

* La terra trema, Luchino Visconti's second feature, is a classic of Italian Neorealism.


Current Soundtrack: Saint Etienne, "Side Streets;" Pet Shop Boys, "London (Piano Mix);" Belle & Sebastian, "(I Believe In) Travellin' Light;" Tindersticks, "The Other Side of the World"


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All text (c) 2012 Jamie S. Rich

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