the passionate moviegoer

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

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

tarnished

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The curious turn taken this year by the usually stuffy, self-important Oscarcast probably warrants psychoanalysis more than critical ...
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Thursday, February 14, 2013

cinema obscura: Massy Tadjedin's "last night" (2010)

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Thanks to the language barrier and locales that are more exotic than Anywhere, U.S.A., foreign films get away with a lot. Especially Fre...
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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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