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Mario’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure

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Amore Liquido, First Films World Competition

by Elizabeth Johnston
26.08.2010

Amore Liquido (Liquid Love), Italian director Marco Luca Cattaneo’s first feature-length film, is a difficult movie to watch. It’s the story of 40-year-old Mario, a pudgy man who divides his time between looking after his mother, a stroke-victim, and cleaning the streets of Bologna during the night. To fill the lonely gaps in his life, [...]

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Still Raging After All These Years?

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Winnebago Man

by Adam Kelly
27.07.2010

When my friends and I first saw the profanity-laden viral video about the so-called “Winnebago Man,” we did like many enthusiasts of the clip: we watched it again, and again, and again. Jack Rebney, the forlorn spokesman in these outtakes from a 1989 Winnebago industrial video, is doing his best to contain his rage in [...]

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Bloody Elegant Justice

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Harry Brown, AMC Forum

by Jean-Michel Lacombe
26.05.2010

Daniel Barber’s full-length feature, Harry Brown, is a bloody tale starring Michael Caine as the titular pensioner vigilante who delivers his own brand of street justice in modern-day London. Winner of a slew of awards for his first short film, the celebrated director of TV commercials has debuted with a movie that’s a genre exercise [...]

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Non-Actors In Cathartic Roles

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Ajami, AMC

by Anna Fuerstenberg
06.05.2010

Ajami is not a linear film, and you are not in Hollywood by a million miles. A Bedouin Mafioso walks into an Arabic café in a very poor neighbourhood in Jaffa and when the owner refuses to pay “protection” money, begins shooting the place up with an automatic. The owner responds by taking out his [...]

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