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V for Vendetta (2005)
Director: James McTeigue By Marilyn Ferdinand V for Vendetta is one of the most talked-about new movies of the year. So why am I talking about it? Don’t I usually champion the overlooked film, the...
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Knife in the Head (Messer im Kopf, 1978)
Director/Co-Screenwriter: Reinhard Hauff By Marilyn Ferdinand Following the massacre at the Munich Olympics and the domestic insurgency of the Baader-Meinhof gang, West Germany—not yet united with the...
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Hadewijch (2009)
Director: Bruno Dumont By Marilyn Ferdinand Love has subjugated me: To me this is no surprise, For she is strong and I am weak. She makes me Unfree of myself, Continually against my will. She does with...
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Odd Man Out (1947)
Director: Carol Reed By Marilyn Ferdinand In life and art, the blackest of humor has always been a part of the Irish sensibility. Although the lace-curtain Irish have fought for respectability against...
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Exposed (1983)
Director/Screenwriter: James Toback By Marilyn Ferdinand The past few days have been something of a cinephile’s paradise—at least for this cinephile. Australian film scholar and critic Adrian Martin...
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A Most Wanted Man (2014)
Director: Anton Corbijn By Marilyn Ferdinand The entertainment world and fans of thoughtful, fine acting mourned mightily this past February when actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died of a heroin overdose...
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The Paper Will Be Blue (Hîrtia va fi albastrã, 2006)
Director/Coscreenwriter: Radu Muntean By Marilyn Ferdinand December 16, 1989, was the beginning of the end of the reign of horror Nicolae Ceauşescu began and intensified over the 25 years he was the...
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Rage (2009)
Director/Screenwriter: Sally Potter By Marilyn Ferdinand The only film I have watched twice in a row, waiting only 30 minutes for my mother to show up for my second viewing after I rousted her with the...
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