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Favorite Moments from Locarno Festival 2017: Soviet Spirits, Cinema's Cats, Nick the Sociopath
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Days of Glory (1944)This year at the Locarno Festival I will am looking for specific images, moments, techniques, qualities or scenes from films across the 70th edition's selection that grabbed me and have lingered past and beyond the next movie seen, whose characters, story and images have already begun to overwrite those that came just before.***“Like anything you will ever tell me,” dreamily says a Soviet dancer-turned partisan (Tamara Toumanova) to her lover and commander Vladmir (Gregory Peck in his first role), “it’s learned by heart.” Days of Glory (1944), a highly evocative masterpiece from Jacques Tourneur conjured in that brief moment during World War 2 when Hollywood was asked to make movies in support of our Soviet allies, with disjunctive, lyrical surrealness casts this dancer among the hardened Russian soldiers isolated in a crumbling, underground redoubt behind enemy lines. She comes from a world of art unknown to these fighters,
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‘Rick and Morty’ Review: ‘Pickle Rick’ Turns the Simplest Premise Into a Spectacular Action Animation Showcase
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[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Rick and Morty” Season 3, Episode 3, “Pickle Rick.”]
When describing Rick, Bird Person put it best: “The path your father and I walked together is soaked deeply in the blood of both friend and enemy.” As goofy as “Rick and Morty” treats the adventures of this scientist at the center of these interdimensional adventures, it’s just as good about enriching his genius bona fides in different ways. It took branching out on his own, but Sunday’s episode, “Pickle Rick,” was one of the series’ best examples of untethering Rick Sanchez from all laws of nature and physics and marveling at the results.
When an elaborate turning-into-a-vegetable scheme keeps Rick from attending a family therapy session, Beth, Summer, and Morty leave the oldest member of the family in briny form, sitting on his prized workbench. From its first appearance in the Season 3 trailer, Pickle Rick has been the kind of elemental idea that “Rick and Morty” executes so well,
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- Steve Greene
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‘Game of Thrones’ Roasts ‘The Spoils of War’ [Season 7, Episode 4 Recap]
8 hours ago
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David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are giving us deep cuts and hot hot dragon action in “Game of Thrones” Season 7, Episode 4, “The Spoils of War.” Journeyman TV director Matt Shakman (“Mad Men,” “Fargo,” “You’re the Worst”) makes his ‘Thrones’ debut with this episode, and he leaves his mark. The first half is lovely and contemplative, often joyous, with Arya Stark returning to her home of Winterfell and reuniting with her siblings.
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- Katie Walsh
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‘Game of Thrones’ Review: The Bloody Carnage of ‘The Spoils of War’ Delivers on Season 7’s Biggest Promises
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[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Game of Thrones” Season 7, Episode 4, “The Spoils of War.”]
It took half of Season 7, but “Game of Thrones” finally rediscovered its strength. There, in the courtyard at Winterfell, as long-separated characters Brienne and Arya clash in a fierce bit of hand-to-hand combat, the series showed both sides of what elevates this show at its best. As the two clash, one with a broadsword strong enough to fell a small giant and the other with a weapon the size of an epee, you can almost see the two sides of the show battle for supremacy. Here we see the small, quiet character moments and massive, unparalleled scope of large-scale battle, each playing out to a draw. In excelling on both side of that divide, “Game of Thrones” got itself back on track after a trio of episodes that wandered in the woods.
From the outset of Sunday’s “The Spoils of War,” this seemed like an installment that would avoid
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- Steve Greene
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‘The Deuce’: HBO Goes Boogie Nights With New York Porn [Watch New Trailer]
9 hours ago
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It was probably a kind of scuzzy hell on earth, but perhaps no other period in the history of New York City has been glamorized as much as the late 1970s era of Time Square and Hell’s Kitchen where grindhouse movie theaters and greasy strip clubs and porn shops ruled the days (you could even find remnants of them in Time Square up to the early aughts). Of course, this same period has been covered musically by HBO with Martin Scorsese’s failed series “Vinyl,” which depicted a similar era through the filter of the 1970s, punk, disco and post-punk explosion (and Netflix’s “The Get Down” followed the evolution down through hip hop and disco; though it got canceled too)).
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‘Twin Peaks’ Review: Part 13 Proves the Magic of Pie, Coffee, and an Arm-Wrestling Death Match
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[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Twin Peaks: The Return,” Season 3, “Part 13” (Episode 13).]
No part of “Twin Peaks” is predictable, but the predominant theme of “Part 13” unveiled itself in a hurry: pie.
The delicious diner desert and its perfect beverage partner have been staples of David Lynch’s series since its inception, but rarely in “The Return” have we seen such intense focus on the healing power of a good slice and a few sips.
Cooper’s (Kyle MacLachlan) fixation on cherry pie, which already saved his life once, did so again (and from the same shop). A distraught Becky (Amanda Seyfried) calls her mother, Shelly (Madchen Amick), and the mere promise of pie turns her frown upside down. Later, Norma (Peggy Lipton) meets with Walter (Grant Goodeve) about her diner franchise’s performance, and she’s told the other pies aren’t as good as her own. Norma explains why — hers are made from all-natural ingredients — to which Walter responds, “Love doesn’t always turn a profit.
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- Ben Travers
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