| June 2 |
- I’m on vacation. But you can help out!
- Seeking suggestions: Best movies for kids, non-current, non-Disney (or at least non-CGI) and non-obvious preferred.
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| June 6 |
- Genghis Khan, Harlan Ellison and RFK
- We haven’t exhausted the kids’ movies topic yet, believe me! Meanwhile here’s a quickie guide to new films opening this week (that I’m not covering).
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| June 11 |
- Clint vs. Spike: WWII racial grudge match!
- A British paper lures Eastwood and Lee into an unfortunate feud. Here’s the real question: Which of their films should the other one have made?
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| June 12 |
- Sex, death and the city (i.e., Prague)
- Smoldering Ana Geislerová lights up the screen in a dark, sexy blend of romance and social satire, one of the year’s best foreign flicks.
- The Little Tramp’s killer comedy
- How Charlie Chaplin’s poisonously dark “Monsieur Verdoux” drove the audience away — and was embraced by critics and filmmakers as a masterpiece.
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| June 13 |
- Kinky underwear in Antarctica
- Opening this week: Farmiga’s feral femme fatale, Herzog at the South Pole, a true-life gay love story, the amazing “Blue Planet” and more.
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| June 16 |
- Monday roundup: Hulk vs. Shakespeare
- “Hulk” director says superhero flicks are boring! So I’m off to a 10-hour Japanese film. Also: A.P.’s wacky war against the blogosphere.
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| June 19 |
- Maddin and Herzog: Brothers of the ice!
- It’s frozen allegory week — in summer! Guy Maddin reveals the sleepwalking sex secrets of Winnipeg; Werner Herzog chases psycho penguins in Antarctica.
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| June 21 |
- Meet the Japanese Brando
- Little known outside his homeland, haunted hero-villain Tatsuya Nakadai spans the best years, and greatest films, of Japan’s postwar cinema boom.
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| June 24 |
- Indie film is dying — unless it isn’t
- Yes, distributors are closing, films are tanking and insiders are muttering that doom is nigh. But the best filmmakers always survive.
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| June 26 |
- Dalton Trumbo and American evil
- How the legendary screenwriter of “Roman Holiday” and “Spartacus” defied Congress, broke the blacklist and raised his family.
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| June 27 |
- “La Dolce Vita” in old age
- An elderly Spanish couple — one dignified, the other not — revisits the classic love affair between Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg.
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| June 30 |
- A murdered wife who isn’t dead
- Harlan Coben’s beach-read bestseller “Tell No One” becomes a crackerjack thriller — made in France.
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