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Carol Krenz

FILM

The Speech that Launched a Thousand Ships

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The King’s Speech, AMC Cinema

by Carol Krenz
16.12.2010

Shining brightly in this year’s holiday crop of Oscar-worthy films is The King’s Speech, a multi-faceted jewel that illuminates a little-known period in history when Queen Elizabeth II’s father, George VI, had to face down more than one dragon.

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DVD

Explosive Pain

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The Hurt Locker

by Carol Krenz
06.03.2010

Director Kathryn Bigelow is into metaphors big time. The Hurt Locker, her Oscar-worthy film’s title, can mean any number of things – a dangerous physical space, or a wounding of the mind. It might also refer to what Staff Sgt. William James (Jeremy Renner) keeps in his foot locker – the detonators he’s risked life [...]

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DVD

The Silence Of Discontinuity

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Summer Hours

by Carol Krenz
04.12.2009

Funny that Edvard Munch’s The Scream springs to mind under the caress of director Olivier Assayas’ gentle film, Summer Hours (L’heure d’été) – but, it does. Its ghostly alarm provokes a universal lament for the disposable society we have become. With each successive scene, the inaudible noise grows louder, finding no escape through mannerly tears [...]

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