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GERALD PEARY

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Review: Absurdistan

A ripe, magic-realism-lite tale of life
Delicatessen sort of meets Borat in Veit Helmer's visually ripe, magic-realism-lite tale of life in a mythical Eastern European country that time forgot after the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc.
By GERALD PEARY  |  March 04, 2009

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Review: Serbis

Does not do justice to the premise
There couldn't be a more promising set-up for a movie than the one in Brillante Mendoza's film: a family-run gay-porno-movie theater.
By GERALD PEARY  |  February 25, 2009

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Review: Two Lovers

Joaquin Phoenix's reported last film not interesting enough or deep enough
In what's bruited to be his last screen appearance, Joaquin Phoenix goes Marlon Brando mumbly.
By GERALD PEARY  |  February 25, 2009

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Review: Cherry Blossoms

Well-crafted and sincere, but ultimately tiresome
In Doris Dörrie's emotionally loaded melodrama Kirschblüten — Hanami , an aging German couple, Trudi (Hannelore Eisner) and Rudi (Elmer Wrapper), grow tighter than ever.
By GERALD PEARY  |  February 12, 2009

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Review: Wild Child

Learning curve, part I
Like others who toil in the classroom (I’m a long-time film-studies professor at Suffolk University), I constantly fret over whether all those semesters of teacher talk have made a bona fide dent in students’ lives.
By GERALD PEARY  |  February 04, 2009

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Review: The Class

Learning curve, part II
Bégaudeau is a real-life teacher who penned a memoir, Entre les murs (the film’s original French title), about his time in the classroom.
By GERALD PEARY  |  February 04, 2009

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Review: Donkey Punch

Bodies, bodies everywhere
Three young gals from Leeds on a pleasure trip to Spain hook up with four randy British sailors and head out to the ocean on a borrowed yacht.
By GERALD PEARY  |  January 27, 2009

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Review: Gran Torino

Cuddly Clint?
Gran Torino is vintage Eastwood
By GERALD PEARY  |  December 17, 2008

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Review: Angel

Inglorious kitsch melodrama
But Ozon has a wry plan, for the conventionally told tale switches tone and becomes a very funny bodice ripper itself.
By GERALD PEARY  |  December 16, 2008

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Review: Ciao

A most gentle and civil gay film
The set-up in Yen Tan's most gentle and civil of gay films is that Dallas twentysomething Mark dies in a car accident just as his year-long Italian e-mail flirtation, Andrea (Alessandro Calza), is due to visit him from Genoa.
By GERALD PEARY  |  December 16, 2008

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How About You

TV movie
TV movie
By GERALD PEARY  |  December 11, 2008

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Luckey in Amsterdam

Paralyzing hopelessness at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam
Simply, there’s no more prestigious place for a documentary to debut than IDFA, rightly regarded as the very best documentary festival in the world.
By GERALD PEARY  |  January 23, 2009

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Pray the Devil Back to Hell

A moving historical documentary
Remember the old "essentialist" argument that women are by nature pacifist and nurturing whereas men are aggressive and warlike?
By GERALD PEARY  |  December 05, 2008

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Andy Warhol: Denied

A wry, amusing bit of art-world sleuthing
Andy himself would love the to-do concerning his mountains of left-over work.
By GERALD PEARY  |  November 25, 2008

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Patti Smith: Dream of Life

An intimate, affectionate, non-linear visit
This collage of a documentary emanates from an 11-year collaboration between punk poet/rocker Patti Smith and her filmmaker friend Steven Sebring.
By GERALD PEARY  |  December 09, 2008

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No Eden

The story is too familiar
There's a utopian pastoral painting on the wall of Billy and Breda Farrell's bedroom, but their actual marriage is no Eden.
By GERALD PEARY  |  November 19, 2008

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Stranded: I’ve Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains

A redundant, overlong documentary
The story has been told already, and vividly, in Piers Paul Read's Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors .
By GERALD PEARY  |  November 11, 2008

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Let the Right One In

A remarkable vampire film
Who would have predicted that the finest horror picture in years, reminiscent of Val Lewton classics of 1940s Hollywood, would come from Sweden?
By GERALD PEARY  |  November 11, 2008

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Save Me

A decent, but not great, soap opera
Mark (Chad Allen), a trashy young gay man into motel sex and coke, makes a sea change by agreeing to reside at a Christian halfway home, where the once-gay clientele are weaned away from homosexuality and into the arms of Jesus.
By GERALD PEARY  |  November 05, 2008

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Louise Bourgeois: the Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine

A remarkable and ambitious documentary
What we learn, in intimate conversations at her Brooklyn studio, is that she remains furious, 80 years later, that her father in France took a mistress in front of her mother.  
By GERALD PEARY  |  November 04, 2008
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