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Reel 56: Only Connect
See? Weren’t you promised an episode with this title a while back? We do the fan service pretty well, methinks. (Also, I don’t have an especially good reason for it, but I kind of like the artwork on this episode.) This time around, “Only Connect” is a rather ironic title, because the films we’re looking…
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Reel 55: Another Brick in the Berlin Wall
Or, “Sean Gives Me Hell For Writing Another T00-Clever Title.” Our tour Around the World in Twenty Films lands us in Germany this time around, and we begin with The Lives of Others, a 2006 drama which is set in Communist East Germany in (go figure) 1984. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck wrote and makes his…
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Reel 54: Les Crimes Français
We continue our trip Around the World in Twenty Films with a stopover in France, and a look at a couple of crime dramas, told largely from the criminals’ point of view. In Part One we’re reviewing Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (À bout de souffle). This 1960 film stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. Belmondo is…
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Reel 53: Only Disconnect
Sean and I individually thought for a long time about what a good title for this episode might be. We’d informally called it “Personalities,” but that was too bland. We kicked around “Mind F**ks” but we like being family-friendly, mostly. There were a few others, and as publication time approached, I was afraid we weren’t…
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Reel 52: South American Way
¡Hola, amigos! Welcome to Reel 52, wherein we take our tour Around the World in 20 films down to South America! In Part 1, we’re in an unnamed South American country that’s totally not Uruguay, in the 1972 film State of Siege, directed by Costa-Gavras. It’s a film where you (mostly) know the ending right…
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Reel 51: Alfonso Cuaron’s Mexico
It’s not going out on a limb to say that Alfonso Cuarón has directed a wide variety of films. From the sex comedy Sólo con tu pareja to the near-future Children of Men (which we discuss in Episode 11), to the pure fantasy of the third film in the Harry Potter series, to the films…
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