the passionate moviegoer

a fan's notes by joe baltake devoted to movies neglected and mostly misunderstood

Thursday, October 20, 2011

clipped wings

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"The Big Year" is, well, an odd bird. (Bad pun intended.) Seeemingly a comedy with an ace cast, it never takes flight. (There I g...
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Tuesday, October 04, 2011

unmoored, brilliantly

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Lonergan directs Damon and Paquin Kenneth Lonergan's long-awaited/long-delayed "Margaret" submerges a willing viewer in th...
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Monday, September 19, 2011

infectious

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"Contagion," the new metathriller gorgeously shot and rather playfully directed by Steven Soderbergh, is the filmmaker's Alt...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

getting bucked

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The base "Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star" never stood a chance, not even with Adam Sandler's imprematur stamped on it. Sandle...
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Sunday, September 11, 2011

cinema obscura: Dore Schary's "Act One" (1963)

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The playwright-director Moss Hart co-wrote both ''You Can't Take It With You'' and ''The Man Who Came to Dinner...
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