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PETER KEOUGH

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Fawkes populi?

V for vacillation
Maybe all oppression runs pretty much the same course, but Alan Moore & David Lloyd’s 1981 graphic novel V for Vendetta sure seems prescient today.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 16, 2006

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Different strokes

The Boston Underground Film Festival  
Some say the movie impulse comes from voyeurism, but I think a case could be made for sado-masochism, especially after watching some of the selections in this year’s Boston Underground Film Festival.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 17, 2006

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Tsotsi

Best Foreign Film Oscar winner brings great soundtrack, little else
The interior existential odyssey of Fugard’s hero gives way to a rote-like police manhunt with vague social implications, trite sentimentality, and a pat resolution.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 08, 2006

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Seasonal adjustment

Hollywood springs back
After weeks of tormenting audiences with gems like Failure To Launch and The Shaggy Dog , Hollywood seems ready to shake off the Oscar doldrums and unveil its spring collection.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 07, 2006

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Daze of Heaven

Reygadas’s sordid, mystical Battle
Let’s get the blow job over quickly, as Carlos Reygadas does in the opening scene of his grotesque and mystifying Batalla en el cielo|Battle in Heaven .
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 07, 2006

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Swag hags

Movie after movie, Hollywood tries to buy off critics with tchotchkes
It’s the dirty secret of film critics: we’re in it for the swag.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 06, 2006

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Street Fight

Two Jersey politicians get downright nasty in doc.
Although the outrages of the 2000 presidential election caught the world by surprise, dirty local politics is an American pastime. Even so, the crude tactics unleashed in the 2002 Newark mayoral campaign as captured by documentarian Marshall Curry still shock.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 01, 2006

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Brokeback breakdown

Mountain ’s Oscar hopes come down with a Crash
The most politically loaded Oscar race since Gandhi versus E.T. in 1982 seems to have come down to a contest between the gay-cowboy movie that isn’t really a gay-cowboy movie and the drama about racial conflict that’s really a glib exercise in screenwriting.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 07, 2006

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Zizek!

Trying to keep up with the Robin Williams of Freudian-Marxist theory
“I never thought I’d have so much fun talking about this!” exclaims Barry Nolan at the end of a broadcast of CN8’s Nightbeat .
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 23, 2006

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CSA: The Confederate States of America

Mockumentary recasts results of "The War of Northern Aggression."
Those who found Spike Lee’s Bamboozled too subtle won’t have that problem with Kevin Willmott’s satire.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 23, 2006

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The Arab street

Merzak Allouache’s other world at the HFA  
Watching the news lately, you can’t help thinking that nobody has an idea what’s going on in the Arab and Islamic world.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 23, 2006

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Manderlay

Von Trier's trilogy continues, sans Nicole Kidman.
Lars von Trier’s Manderlay has something to offend everyone: blacks, whites, conservatives, liberals, and those who, like myself, found Dogville a bold if flawed experiment.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 16, 2006

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Great exasperations

Michael Winterbottom adapts Tristram Shandy
Winterbottom's take on Laurence Sterne’s monumental ode to digression itself begins with a digression about actor Rob Brydon’s teeth.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 14, 2006

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Continental divides

Seeking reconciliation in the African Film Festival
These films might not heal a continent, but they suggest that African cinema is alive and well.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 19, 2006

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O Heroi | The Hero

3.0 stars
No veteran demobbed after wartime has it easy, but the case of Vitório is downright Homeric.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 09, 2006

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Firewall

2.0 stars
You could trace a history of American anxiety through the bad guys Harrison Ford has had to fight to protect his on-screen family: industrialization in The Mosquito Coast (1987), the IRA in Patriot Games (1992), Russian terrorists in Air Force One (1997), himself in What Lies Beneath (2000).
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 09, 2006

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Dixième Chambre: Instants D’Audience | The 10th District Court: Moments of Trial

Rating: 3 stars
The cases heard in the typical court sessions of Raymond Dépardon’s documentary range from drunk-driving charges against middle-class plaintiffs to drug and robbery offenses committed by poor people, minorities, and illegal aliens.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 09, 2006

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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Rating: 3 stars
It brings to mind films as diverse as Sam Peckinpah’s Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia , John Sayles’s Lone Star and even The Wizard of Oz , but the end result is Tommy Lee Jones’s own shaggy-corpse story.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 02, 2006

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Trial and error

The system is found guilty in After Innocence  
Hollywood studios looking for movie ideas should check out Jessica Sanders’s After Innocence .
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 02, 2006

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Hollywood gives Bush the finger

Why lefty films look good for Oscar
Except for a few agitators like Sean Penn and Barbra Streisand, people in Hollywood prefer to play down their liberal bent.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  January 26, 2006
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