the passionate moviegoer

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

Friday, December 28, 2012

in no particular order, and unannotated

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Tim Burton's "Frankenweenie " (Disney) Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" (Weinstein) Joe Wright's...
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Monday, December 24, 2012

the anti-musical

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"Les Miz" - kinda strange for a musical Tom Hooper’s film of the cult pop opera, “Les Misérables,” is one of those movies th...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

one and only one

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My previous post on Tim Allen’s first and only film as a direct, “Crazy on the Outside,” made me think of other performers who tested thei...
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cinema obscura: Norman Lear's "Cold Turkey" (1971)

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Funny how politics never changes. Both Otto Preminger’s “Advise and Consent” (1962) and, going even further back, Frank Capra’s “Mr. Smith...
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Monday, December 10, 2012

cinema obscura: Alan Rudolph's "Investigating Sex" (2001)

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Diehard Alan Rudolph fans take note. The auteur's long-shelved "Investigating Sex," which played the film festival circuit in...
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