Category: Filmmakers Bleed
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Millennium Actress [FB]
It’s weird to get back into the mental state that we were all in back in 2001. The Y2K buzz was forgotten and embarrassing, most of the retrospective documentaries had passed, and the nostalgia craze was nearing its end. It seems fitting to have a movie like Millennium Actress pop out in July of 2001. […]
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A Serious Man [Filmmakers Bleed]
I’ve seen four other Coen Brothers movies before I came to this one (Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and Burn After Reading) and while some of their movies (O Brother) tend to have a well-defined plot that makes sense (mostly on the basis of it being based on one of the […]
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Brothers [Filmmakers Bleed]
Who knew that Brothers was a remake of a Danish film? See if you can follow me here (it’s not really all that complicated): Danish movie -> Adapted and remade by Irish director -> American movie I don’t have anything else on that topic to say other than it’s a funny pedigree for the film. […]
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Winter’s Bone [FB]
I first saw the trailer for Winter’s Bone before Män som hatar kvinnor (AKA: Men Who Hate Women (AKA: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo)) and I immediately thought: wow, that looks intense. Well I finally got around to watching it this past weekend and I was both right and wrong. For those not familiar […]
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Quick Movie Roundup [Filmmakers Bleed]
Saw a couple of movies recently. Here’s what I think of them: A Prophet French movie about a French prison. Our hero, Malik El Djebena, is thrown in jail for six years for beating up a police officer. He quickly finds himself in unwillingly in the service of the Corsican crime family that runs the […]