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DVD of the Week: Kaboom

Posted on May 31, 2011 by moviegourmet

And now for some sexy silliness. Director Gregg Araki created the brilliant and searing Mysterious Skin, but here he’s just having fun.  In the first hour of Kaboom, I lost track of how many characters had sex with each other … Continue reading →

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DVD of the Week: Kings of Pastry

Posted on May 24, 2011 by moviegourmet

This documentary chronicles the physically grueling and emotionally draining three-day competition for the MOF, the highest designation for French pastry chefs. Amid impossibly towering sugar sculptures and delectable cream puffs and layer cakes, we see the essential cores of competition … Continue reading →

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Movies to See Right Now

Posted on May 19, 2011 by moviegourmet

The searing drama Incendies is the year’s best film so far. Upon their mother’s death, a young man and woman learn for the first time of their father and their brother and journey from Quebec to the Middle East to … Continue reading →

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Meek’s Cutoff: when men don’t ask for directions

Posted on May 18, 2011 by moviegourmet

Meek’s Cutoff is an unfortunate misfire by the excellent director Kelly Reichardt (Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy).   The masterpiece Picnic at Hanging Rock has already been made.  We didn’t need an indifferent covered wagon version. The route of the Oregon … Continue reading →

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DVD of the Week: Diabolique

Posted on May 17, 2011 by moviegourmet

The headmaster of a provincial boarding school is so cruel, even sadistic, that everyone wants him dead, especially his wife and his mistress.  When he goes missing, the police drain the murky pool where the killers dumped the body, and … Continue reading →

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Queen to Play: A passion discovered late

Posted on May 13, 2011 by moviegourmet

In the fine French drama Queen to Play, a working class woman discovers a passion for chess  in midlife.  It’s a film about aspiration.  First, she must muster the courage and resourcefulness to learn the game.  When it becomes an … Continue reading →

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Movies to See Right Now

Posted on May 12, 2011 by moviegourmet

Don’t miss Cave of Forgotten Dreams while it can be seen in 3D;  Werner Herzog explores the amazing 30,000 year old Chauvet cave paintings.  In the fine French drama Queen to Play, a working class woman discovers a passion for … Continue reading →

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Cave of Forgotten Dreams: 3D for grownups

Posted on May 11, 2011 by moviegourmet

Come along with Werner Herzog as he explores the 33,000-year-old Chauvet cave paintings in southern France. It’s a great topic for a film – a specially authorized descent into the claustrophobic confines of a prehistoric cave, littered with human footprints … Continue reading →

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DVD of the Week: Hail! The Conquering Hero

Posted on May 10, 2011 by moviegourmet

This brilliantly funny movie is one of Preston Sturges’ less well known great comedies.  Eddie Bracken plays a would-be soldier discharged for hay fever – but his hometown mistakenly think that he is sent home a war hero.  Hilarity ensues.  … Continue reading →

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Coming up on TV: Lawrence of Arabia

Posted on May 6, 2011 by moviegourmet

It’s time to revisit a spectacle.  On May 9, Turner Classic movies is broadcasting Lawrence of Arabia.  For decades, many of us watched this epic squeezed into tinny-sounding TVs.   In 1989, I was fortunate enough to see the director’s cut … Continue reading →

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