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Outside Reading — Translations Are Sacred edition

February 22, 2020February 19, 2020 Dan Seeger

Bong Joon Ho Interpreter Sharon Choi Relives Historic ‘Parasite’ Awards Season in Her Own Words by Sharon Choi Of the many pleasures of this Oscar season that concluded with a wonderful, history outcome, one of the most satisfying was the … Continue reading Outside Reading — Translations Are Sacred edition

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Top Fifty Films of the 10s — Number Forty-Eight

February 20, 2020February 19, 2020 Dan Seeger

#48 — Baby Driver (Edgar Wright, 2017) Especially as they scale up, movies are monumentally difficult to make. Relying on a vast team of specialized collaborators practically guarantees that a long process will be beset by unfortunate compromises and the … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 10s — Number Forty-Eight

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Top Fifty Films of the 10s — Number Forty-Nine

February 18, 2020February 17, 2020 Dan Seeger

#49 — Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011) What happens when a cinematic provocateur turns their attention to the inner turmoil of a person? When the instinct to rattle the audience with a bleak consideration of the futility of existence manifests … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 10s — Number Forty-Nine

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Then Playing — Bombshell; Harriet; Pain and Glory

February 17, 2020February 16, 2020 Dan Seeger

Bombshell (Jay Roach, 2019). I assume there is noble intent behind the presence last year of two major productions dramatizing the toxic, misogynistic work environment at Fox News. I cant’ speak to the Showtime limited series that covered the same … Continue reading Then Playing — Bombshell; Harriet; Pain and Glory

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Top Fifty Films of the 10s — Number Fifty

February 13, 2020February 13, 2020 Dan Seeger

#50 — Mission: Impossible — Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie, 2018) In a cinematic era absolutely overrun with superheroes, how can a more conventional action movie titan keep up? Fictional demigods streak across the sky, routinely patching up the very fabric of … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 10s — Number Fifty

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Top Fifty Films of the 10s — An Introduction

February 12, 2020 Dan Seeger

Right around ten years ago, I gave myself an ambitious but manageable task. In response to the torrent of lists tallying up the best films from the ten-year span that ended when 2009 gave way to 2010, I took my … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 10s — An Introduction

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Now Playing — Birds of Prey

February 11, 2020February 24, 2021 Dan Seeger

Officially, the new film featuring characters culled from DC Comics is called simply Birds of Prey. After a disappointing opening weekend at the box office, several theater chains have conspicuously revised their marquees and websites to affix the the name … Continue reading Now Playing — Birds of Prey

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Parasite by the Oscar Lights

February 10, 2020April 26, 2021 Dan Seeger

When Tom Hanks tells you to turn the lights back on, you turn the lights back on. After Parasite secured its historic win in the Best Picture category and the first producer delivered their acceptance speech, the show producers dimmed … Continue reading Parasite by the Oscar Lights

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Outside Reading — Oscars Eve edition

February 8, 2020February 7, 2020 Dan Seeger

I still love watching the Oscars by Karen Han To be simultaneously devoted to modern cinematic art and the Academy Awards is an invitation to perpetual heartbreak, and I type that as someone with fairly mainstream tastes (as opposed to … Continue reading Outside Reading — Oscars Eve edition

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Twenty Performances, or Women and Chill Don First

February 6, 2020February 6, 2020 Dan Seeger

With the annual Academy Awards ceremony mere days away and the sharing of my personal assessment of the previous year’s ten finest films duly completed, tradition holds that I put my pontificating about performance into the format of an Actors … Continue reading Twenty Performances, or Women and Chill Don First

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