ROTTEN TOMATOES: Dan Lybarger

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DAN LYBARGER

Agrees with the Tomatometer 85% of the time.

Biography: Dan Lybarger has contributed film articles to the Kansas City Star, Nitrate Online, The Lawrence (KS) Journal-World, and PitchWeekly. eKC tmi He has an M.A. in Writing from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and a B.A. in English from Ottawa University.

Favorites: My favorite filmmakers are:

Billy Wilder

Akira Kurosawa

Agnieszka Holland

Buster Keaton (I attend a Keaton Festival every year in Iola, KS. This festival takes place seven miles from Keaton's birthplace in Picquay).

Orson Welles

Martin Scorsese

Peter Weir

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Woody Allen

David Lean

Charlie Chaplin Favorite Movies:

The Apartment

Europa Europa

Life Lessons (from "New York Stories")

Modern Times

Apocalypse Now

Rashomon

The Magnificent Ambersons

The General (1927)

Witness (Part of my fascination with this movie is due to the fact that my relatives are Dunkards, a religious order like the Amish)

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

My Life as a Dog

Of course, Citizen Kane

Publications: County Cable, eFilmCritic.com, Hollywood Bitchslap, Kansas City Star, Lawrence Journal-World, Lybarger Links, MovieMaker Magazine, Nitrate Online, Pitch.com, Rotten Tomatoes, Script Magazine

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society, Kansas City Film Critics Circle

Total Reviews: 628
Total QuickRatings: 257

Location: Kansas City

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date (default)

Fresh 5/5	Fresh 98%	The Fog of War (2003)	" 'The Fog of War' reveals McNamara to be an intelligent, insightful and sensitive man who was catastrophically wrong about the nature of the conflict that came to define him." — eFilmCritic.com DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 10, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 83%	Two Lovers (2009)	" While watching Phoenix mumbling in a stupor on Letterman is perversely entertaining, it's a lot more edifying to watch him give what he says is his final acting performance in director James Gray's 'Two Lovers.'" — eFilmCritic.com DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 10, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 100%	I Am Cuba (1964)	" It's impossible to simply watch 'I Am Cuba.' The experience of watching this 1964 movie is more like being hit by a two-and-a-half hour hurricane." — eFilmCritic.com DVD REVIEW Posted Nov 15, 2007
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 100%	Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down A Dream (2007)	" It's great that Petty's relevance and longevity has apparently rubbed off on Bogdanovich." — eFilmCritic.com DVD REVIEW Posted Nov 6, 2007
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 100%	Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)	" For over a quarter century, Hayao Miyazaki has been making imaginative movies that manage to nourish the head and the heart equally." — eFilmCritic.com DVD REVIEW Posted Feb 21, 2005
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 90%	Flaming Star (1960)	If only the King had been paired more frequently with directors like Don Siegel and Michael Curtiz, he'd have given more terrific performances like the one here. — Nitrate Online DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 13, 2004
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 100%	The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)	Intriguing, if not totally successful adaptation of the Kundera novel. — Nitrate Online DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 10, 2004
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 100%	Robinson Crusoe (1952)	" It�s sadly ironic that this terrific adaptation of the most celebrated castaway story of all has been missing for decades and unavailable for home viewing until now." — Hollywood Bitchslap DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 27, 2004
Fresh 3/4	N/A	Marx Brothers Collection (1935)	" *This new set made me appreciate the chapter select menus, but it features A Night at the Opera* and A Day at the Races. These films require several viewings.** " — Kansas City Star DVD REVIEW Posted May 13, 2004
Fresh 10/10	N/A	Looney Tunes - Golden Collection: Vol. 1 (2003)	" Despite the abundance of goodies, the biggest joy of the collection is the ability to freeze-frame the original cartoons themselves." — Kansas City Star DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 27, 2003
Fresh 3.5/4	N/A	The Billy Wilder DVD Collection 9-Pack (1957)	" When writer/director Billy Wilder died last year at 95, he left behind a series of films that demolished sexual taboos, satirized Cold War tensions and entertained a mass audience even though he had something to say. Not bad for a fellow working in a thir" — Kansas City Star DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 18, 2003
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 88%	Full Contact (1992)	Lots of mayhem, and that's what's great about it. Chow is at his most charismatic. — Nitrate Online DVD REVIEW Posted Feb 23, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 97%	The Last Waltz (1978)	" The movie is no moldering time capsule. The film has been handsomely restored, and the new sound mix is remarkably rich." — Kansas City Star DVD REVIEW Posted Jun 9, 2002

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