Low expectations were unexpectedly sweetened to the point of entertained delight.
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Badlands 1973
On this day, exactly 50 years ago, during the 11th edition of the New York Film Festival, a different kind of start was born. Terrence Malick made his feature film debut with Badlands. A tale of strange attraction between a twenty-something sociopath called Kit (Martin Sheen) and a reserved, introverted teenage creature called Holly (Sissy Spacek), who - quite nonchalantly - end up running away together and going on a serial killing spree in Montana.
It’s really Holly who watches…
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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2014
After his “Death” trilogy (“Amores Perros,” “21 Grams,” “Babel“) Alejandro González Iñárritu took an even more depressing route. Instead of swallowing the proverbial chill pill by directing something lighter, looser, something with a sliver of optimistic verve in its veins, he went ahead and made the ultimate downer of his filmography: “Biutiful.” Nothing against the film itself (it personally moved me to no end, and I believe it contains the best performance Javier Bardem has ever delivered), but it’s bleak…
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Borgman 2013
The unpredictable mechanics of evil have rarely been as captivating as they are in Alex Van Warmerdam’s Borgman. Premiering last year at Cannes, our very own Dustin Jansick saw it during his coverage of the festival (read his initial thoughts here) and was, unsurprisingly, compelled by its strangeness. Having finally seen public release earlier this month in the U.S. from Drafthouse Films, Borgman will be welcomed onto Canadian soil to tease, lure, and most-likely frustrate the hell out of Canadian…
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