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Clouds of Sils Maria 2014
A tone-deaf, embarrassingly out of touch art film's art film that wears its snobbish and elitist indignation on its sleeve. This is a film about how plebian it is to watch movies. It lives in the shadow of 'Birdman,' and further highlights that film's brilliance by withering comparison. In 'Birdman,' both the inter-generational tension and the battle between pop and high art were played out in biting parlays that left both sides wounded. Here we're all supposed to be lulled…
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Cathedrals of Culture 2014
A documentary not quite like any I've ever seen before. If a building has a soul, and that soul could speak, what would it say? I walked in expecting a film that would do for architecture what 'Pina' did for dance, or 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams' did for cave paintings, using a 3-D camera to capture a uniquely three-dimensional art form. That's certainly part of what's presented, approximating the feeling of standing in six far-flung buildings many people would never…
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Exit Through the Gift Shop 2010
The real question isn't whether or not this film is a hoax, which it clearly is, it's exactly where the facts stop and the fiction begins. In any case, the film is a weirdly perfect attack on the art community, and probably the most authentic documentary about the spirit of street art anyone could make. One thing everyone who sees this film should be certain of is that Banksy is the real deal, a certifiable artistic genius living among us,…
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Children of Paradise 1945
Michael Powell once wrote, "No artist believes in escapism. And we secretly believe that no audience does. We have proved, at any rate, that they will pay to see the truth, for other reasons than her nakedness." I must suspect that when he wrote it he was thinking of the opening of this film, which consists of a sideshow talker beckoning the crowd to "See the naked truth!", namely the film's lynch-pin, Garance, admiring herself in a tub. This incessantly…
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