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Mon, Jun 20, 2005

The Wicker Man

Games of truth, anthropology, and the death of ‘man’

Despite appearances, it's Foucault’s philosophy that provides the dread that makes this film a horror classic.

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Mon, Jun 13, 2005

Cape Fear

The View Through Dani's Window

For all the violence, what is real here is the skeleton in the closet.

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Tue, Jun 07, 2005

Ocean's Twelve

John Barth Goes to Hollywood

George Clooney and the difference between smartly self-aware and dumbly self-involved.

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Sun, May 08, 2005

House of Wax

House of Wad

Copulate. Videotape. Dissemenate. Or, How to Interpret a Film By Only Seeing the Poster.

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Sun, May 01, 2005

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

A Crisis of Conscience

Labels and the problem of defining the good.

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Tue, Apr 12, 2005

The Incredibles

Those Incredible Tories

Ciceronian themes permeate a popular family film.

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Mon, Apr 04, 2005

Donnie Darko

Wasting My Time, You’re Just Wasting Time

On eighties pop music, intelligence, and analyzing film

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Wed, Mar 16, 2005

Hotel Rwanda

Memory, Witness, and Departure

Alone in its genre, this film asks the ancient question of being our brothers' keeper in a way we might actually hear and respond to.

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