Browsing Archive: November, 2009
Posted by Joseph Bridges on Saturday, November 28, 2009,
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Few films of recent years feel more urgent than Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah. A devastating inside look at organized crime in contemporary Naples, Gomorrah is based on the book of the same name by Italian undercover reporter Roberto Saviano, who had to go into hiding after its publication. Garrone’s film, consisting of five interconnected stories, makes cinematically vivid the Mafia underworld that Saviano exposed, a crime syndicate whose tendrils snake from the poore...
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Posted by Joseph Bridges on Wednesday, November 4, 2009,
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The least sentimental and most beautiful movie about angels ever made, Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire arrives in Criterion DVD and Blu-ray special editions just in time for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Filmed in a shimmering yet realistic cold-war Berlin only a few years before that momentous event, Wenders’s ode to a troubled city takes a fanciful look at the afterlife, narrated by a gloomy guardian angel: Bruno Ganz’s Damiel, who mu...
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