Name: Dan Schneider
Weblog: www.cosmoetica.com
Articles: 56
First Published: Saturday, March 24, 2007
Last Published: Friday, October 3, 2008
Currently listing articles 56-1:
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DVD Review: La Jetee/Sans Soleil— Two film classics from Chris Marker show that avant-garde is not simply French for pretentious garbage.
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DVD Review: Aparajito— Satyajit Ray's follow-up to Pather Panchali falls short, but is still excellent.
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DVD Review: An Autumn Afternoon— Another classic from Japanese film master, Yasujiro Ozu.
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Book Review: The Conscience Of A Liberal by Paul Krugman— The New York Times' columnist doesn't quite slide all the way home with his latest book.
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DVD Review: Au Hasard Balthazar— One of the greatest films of all time defines why art can reach into areas, and elucidate things, no other human activity can come close
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DVD Review: Borat— Sacha Baron Cohen's minor comedy classic just may have more staying power than suspected.
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DVD Review: High And Low— A reissued masterpiece by Akira Kurosawa scores high in the Criterion Collection pantheon.
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DVD Review: Vampyr— Carl Theodor Dreyer's horror classic gets the treatment from the Criterion Collection folks, and it's a winner!
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DVD Review: Rescue Dawn— Werner Herzog's triumphant return to fictive filmmaking in over a decade.
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Movie Review: The Chronicles Of Narnia - Prince Caspian— A disappointing sequel that suffers from too many familiar Hollywood ills.
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DVD Review: Autumn Sonata— Ingmar Bergman's oddly neglected chamber piece is the work of a master.
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Book Review: The Philosopher At The End Of The Universe by Mark Rowlands— A romp through sci fi films to get at the deeper questions that propel them.
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Book Review: Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock— A collection of short stories on losers that is written the way a loser would....
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Book Review: The Race Card — How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse by Richard Thompson Ford— A Stanford law professor pens a classic on how to approach racism in a world where the very notion is passé.
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Book Review: The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo— The man who ran the Sanford Prison Experiment shows how evil is not just a thing within the individual.
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Book Review: Tabloid Dreams by Robert Olen Butler— Pulitzer Prize-winner loses touch and becomes third-rate pulp fiction hack.
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DVD Review: Chinese Coffee— Al Pacino's overlooked film on the role of the artist shines in some moments, and fails in others.
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DVD Review: Red River— Howard Hawks gets John Wayne to emote, and other reasons why he's tops in the Westerns.
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DVD Review: Viridiana— Luis Bunuel's mish-mash of Surrealism and psychobabble still bores nearly half a century after its release.
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DVD Review: The Red Desert— Antonioni's misunderstood masterpiece sparkles in a Region 4 DVD gem.
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Book Review: Ringers & Rascals by David Ashforth — A deftly written delve into the underbelly of horseracing.
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Book Review: Gates Of Eden by Ethan Coen— A famed filmmaker fails at fiction.
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DVD Review: Intervista— An atrocity from Fellini; suffer of the old artist's worst disease.
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Book Review: Forever by Pete Hamill— There's too much pointless melodrama, which is a drag on an otherwise engaging narrative.
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DVD Review: Stalker— Andrei Tarkovsky's odd but effective sci-fi film is out in a DVD release for the masses.
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Book Review: Sonny Liston Was A Friend Of Mine by Thom Jones— The author tries to prove that even janitors can be artists. The operative word here is 'tries'!
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DVD Review: The Saddest Music In The World— An odd but uninvolving film from Canada.
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DVD Review: Fitzcarraldo— Werner Herzog's treatise on determination still rings deeply.
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DVD Review: 20 Million Miles To Earth— Harryhausen's classic wallows in camp, but emerges unscathed.
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DVD Review: Au Revoir Les Enfants— Louis Malle's Holocaust film scores some points, but strikes out as well.
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DVD Review: Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow— Another Theo Angelopoulos masterpiece.
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DVD Review: Eternity And A Day— Theo Angelopoulos delivers a masterpiece, old school.
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DVD Review: The Virgin Spring— Bergman's odd departure from the self leaves something out.
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DVD Review: A Decade Under The Influence— This too fawning documentary could have taken a cue from a real master of the documentary, like Errol Morris.
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Book Review: Transcendental Style In Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer by Paul Schrader— Paul Schrader's seminal film theory book proves that mastering one sort of writing means little in other sorts.
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DVD Review: Landscape In The Mist— Theo Angelopoulos delivers a masterpiece that few Americans can bear.
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DVD Review: Flatland - The Film — An indie film take on the classic Victorian novella misses the mark, but not by much.
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DVD Review: Camera Buff— Krzystof Kieslowski's early treatise on film hints at future greatness.
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DVD Review: Roma— Fellini's classic is a little schwacht; and if you know what that word means, you'll love Roma!
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DVD Review: Night And Fog— Alain Resnais's landmark documentary fails the tests of time, journalism, and art.
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DVD Review: Love And Death— Woody Allen's take on Euro films leaves laughs and a bit more.
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DVD Review: The Wrong Man— A glimpse of 'the other Hitchcock': what might have been had Hollywood not existed.
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DVD Review: Nights Of Cabiria— Giulieta Masina's greatest role, in the oldest profession, makes Nights Of Cabiria one of Federico Fellini's finest films.
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DVD Review: The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser— Werner Herzog at his best in a film about people at their worst.
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DVD Review: Colossus: The Forbin Project— A neglected Cold War and sci-fi thriller gets some due - if not from its studio, from this critic.
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DVD Review: Lightning Over Water— Wim Wenders proves he's no Werner Herzog with the documentary form.
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DVD Review: Knife In The Water— Roman Polanski's first film shows greatness out and outside of the box.
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DVD Review: Cat People— Noir horror at its finest during the World War II years.
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DVD Review: The Searchers— The real John Ford and John Wayne are still being sought in this overrated classic.
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DVD Review: Things Behind The Sun— Alison Anders comes up short in a PC tale about rape and its consequences.
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DVD Review: Distant— N.B. Ceylan's first adventure into excellence.
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DVD Review: North By Northwest— Hitchcock tries and fails to ruffle Cary Grant in one of his best Cold War thrillers.
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DVD Review: La Strada— Fellini's first flirtation with the fabulous.
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DVD Review: Fitzcarraldo— Another masterful Kinski-Herzog film that shows just how lame Hollywood action films really are.
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DVD Review: The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie— John Cassavetes at his best in a realistic crime drama.
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DVD Review: The Hidden Fortress— George Lucas cites this 1958 black and white film as an inspiration for Star Wars, but it is a far better film that that.
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