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Hitch as a Teachable Moment

Posted on April 23, 2012 by admin

Usually, British cultural gossip is far more interesting than ours. One example is the recent controversy about whether popular cinema has a place in regular schools’ curricula. As British Film Institute’s creative director Heather Stewart recently commented, “The idea of … Continue reading →

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Melancolía (2011)

Posted on March 31, 2012 by admin

Melancolía (Zentropa, 2011) es la más reciente aventura cinematográfica del director danés Lars von Trier. Como muchas de sus obras anteriores, esta última también ha generado una gran cantidad de crítica, mucha de ella negativa y, en ocasiones, hasta hostil … Continue reading →

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In Time (2011)

Posted on March 5, 2012 by admin

Noah Berlatsky is totally right, In Time (2011) wants to be a critique of capitalism but instead it ends up being a “searing satire of America’s utter inability to critique capitalism.” However, what Berlatsky fails to recognize is that the film … Continue reading →

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Margin Call (2011), or a Report on the Banality of Greed

Posted on December 29, 2011 by admin

So far, few movies have been as successful as J. C. Chandor’s Margin Call (2011) in portraying the events of the 2008 economic crisis. In fact, the movie achieves something only a few among the best films in history have … Continue reading →

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Solaris and heaven

Posted on December 20, 2011 by admin

Watching Solaris (2002), the version of Stanislaw Lem’s novel adapted and directed by Steven Soderbergh (there is a previous one by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky), I couldn’t help thinking about Christianity’s philosophically challenging notion of heaven. Briefly, Solaris is a … Continue reading →

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