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Downton Abbey’s Secret Feminist
Are you ready for season four?
Even the politically progressive can get sucked in by the delightful soapiness of Downton Abbey, despite the show's troubling politico-economic subtext. Who'da thunk the only feminist of the lot was below stairs, though?
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The Coen Brother's 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
A shaggy cat tale about a modern Ulysses
The Coen brothers didn’t set out to make a nostalgic movie about the bards of Bleecker Street, and they literally pull no punches in Inside Llewyn Davis.
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Downton Abbey Season 4
Immune to Lady Mary's charms
Downton Abbey is merely the latest soap set in the great homes of Britain to take America by storm. What's the appeal?
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Carrie Underwood vs. Julie Andrews
Carrie Underwood confronts the Maria problem
It was a gutsy move when country singer Carrie Underwood took on the role of Maria in NBC TV’s live presentation of The Sound of Music— a role that belonged, in many viewers’ minds, to Julie Andrews. How do we deal with a change in our expectations when someone else takes on the role?
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It’s Not Such A Wonderful Life
Where are you, Clarence, now that we really need you?
Here’s a thought for the holiday season: Haven’t you seen It’s A Wonderful Life enough already? Don’t you have anything better to do with your time, especially now that the film is owned by the 21st Century’s answer to Mr. Potter?
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‘The Best Man Holiday’
Why leave your living room?
Today you can rent any movie right from your living room to stream on your giant flat-screen TV. But watching this piece of feel-good holiday fluff with a very appreciative audience made me remember the benefits of the movie theater experience.
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Léger’s ‘Ballet Mécanique’ at Art Museum
Léger and Antheil, together at last
Fernand Léger’s experimental 1924 film was too short for Georges Antheil’s avant-garde musical score. Now the two have been joined together at last, to visually stunning and aurally exciting effect.
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Brian Percival’s ‘The Book Thief’
Horrible events in pastel colors
The Book Thief paints the horrors of Nazi Germany in fairy tale pastels— which may be the only way today’s generations can begin to make sense of the unthinkable.
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‘Thor: The Dark World’
Between superhero and myth
For 50 years, Marvel Comics’ Thor character has straddled the uneasy divide between the fantastic and the mundane. The latest installment of Thor’s cinematic franchise is a mixed bag but does a decent job of balancing the two genres.
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More lessons from the Cape May Film Festival
Cutting students some slack
Jackie Atkins dismissed the student work at the Cape May Film Festival as not worth watching. That perspective ignores the learning curve that all artists experience.
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