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Les Wright

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Lore (2012) 94% EDIT “Lore and her siblings make a harrowing journey across Germany” – culturevulture.net Mar 15, 2013 Full Review Vincent Wants to Sea (2010) 64% EDIT “Whether classed as a drama, a comedy, or a road movie, Vincent Wants to Sea is a perennially favorite Hollywood tale.” – culturevulture.net Jul 7, 2011 Full Review Christopher and His Kind (2011) EDIT “a powerful evocation of a place lost in time but richly alive in collective gay memory” – culturevulture.net Jun 23, 2011 Full Review Gun Hill Road (2011) 65% EDIT “The downbeat story of Michael, who is trapped half way in the process of coming out as a transgender-identifying person.” – culturevulture.net Jun 23, 2011 Full Review These Amazing Shadows (2011) 75% EDIT “a long commercial promotion for The National Film Registry” – culturevulture.net May 18, 2011 Full Review Heartbeats (2010) 74% EDIT “Director Dolan focuses on the fetishes of fashion” – culturevulture.net Apr 2, 2011 Full Review We Were Here (2011) 100% EDIT “... the document of record, establishing the public, collective memory of a time and place so many have wanted to forget.” – culturevulture.net Mar 1, 2011 Full Review The Song of Sparrows (2008) 98% EDIT “Achingly poetic in a way that recalls the Italian neo-realism of The Bicycle Thief.” – culturevulture.net Jun 12, 2009 Full Review Watchmen (2009) 64% EDIT “... a total immersion experience.” – culturevulture.net Mar 10, 2009 Full Review Moscow, Belgium (2008) 93% EDIT “Barbara Sarafian's performance in this incongruously scintillating little film is a joy.” – culturevulture.net Mar 4, 2009 Full Review A Jihad for Love (2007) 78% EDIT “To be called a monster and then be stoned to death is pretty much as bad as it can get.” – culturevulture.net Aug 29, 2008 Full Review For the Bible Tells Me So (2007) 98% EDIT “The Bible Tells Me So” – culturevulture.net Oct 30, 2007 Full Review Sound of the Soul (2005) EDIT “Part travelogue, part primer on world religions, part concert film, Sound of the Soul delivers a powerful and timely message to a world increasingly seized in the paralyzing grip of self-destructing partisan fundamentalist-fueled strife.” – culturevulture.net Aug 4, 2007 Full Review The Witnesses (2007) 86% EDIT “Never polemical, frequently philosophical, occasionally saturnine, and beautifully filmed and acted, this film is a minor masterpiece, and one of the best films about AIDS to date.” – culturevulture.net Jul 11, 2007 Full Review The Rape of Europa (2006) 82% EDIT “The relationship between Hitler's obsession with art, as a means to dehumanize his enemies and apotheosize his master racial aesthetic values -- and just how integral to Hitler this strategy to redraw the geopolitical map through bald physical brute force” – culturevulture.net Jul 10, 2007 Full Review Four Minutes (2006) 77% EDIT “A riveting film-going experience, Four Minutes may prove "too German" for many non-German-speaking audiences.” – culturevulture.net Jul 10, 2007 Full Review La Vie en Rose (2007) 74% EDIT “A memorable cast, vivid cinematography, crisp and resonant sound recordings, and dramatic storytelling make this a must-see film for fans and novices alike. Though, at 140 minutes, the film may feel like it runs as long as Piaf's tragically short life.” – culturevulture.net May 14, 2007 Full Review Marie Antoinette (2006) 57% EDIT “As a serious film, only an American could love Marie Antoinette. To the French, it must be gravely insulting. As an unwitting camp, it may have a great future.” – culturevulture.net Mar 27, 2007 Full Review Death of a President (2006) 40% EDIT “There is little of the fall of the Twin Towers trauma, but much of All the President's Men here. That this film's buzz has launched such vitriol and condemnation is not surprising. Range's film exposes wider audiences to some basic truths of our times.” – culturevulture.net Mar 27, 2007 Full Review Summer in Berlin (2005) 60% EDIT “In Summer in Berlin, director Andreas Dresen presents the portrait of a friendship between two women, Nike (Nadja Uhl) and Katrin Engel (Inka Friedrich). In the German tradition of the Kammerspielfilm, this is a closely and lovingly observed study in psyc” – culturevulture.net Mar 26, 2007 Full Review Pervert! (2005) EDIT “The heteros become homos, the unsatisfied virgins become red meat, over and over. If you liked Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, you will like this bit of silliness. And, if you understand this film, then, truly, you are a pervert too. Go, be with your peopl” – culturevulture.net Mar 20, 2007 Full Review Man Push Cart (2005) 89% EDIT “A sad, powerful, austere experience of a movie, this is the story of a man who has known profound, compound loss.” – culturevulture.net Mar 12, 2007 Full Review The Fisherman and His Wife (2005) EDIT “Meanwhile, Drrie sends up, more with humor than rebuke, the present decade's global-wide obsession with its win-at-all-cost competitive spirit, the blurring of boundaries between profit-making and service providing, the West's infatuation with Japanese d” – culturevulture.net Mar 12, 2007 Full Review Three Kings (1999) 94% EDIT “Keilich strikes a sweetly engaging balance between humor and pathos.” – culturevulture.net Mar 12, 2007 Full Review The Lives of Others (2006) 92% EDIT “Relative newcomer screenwriter and director Florian Henkel von Donnersmarck makes a remarkably self-confident and promising debut with the tensely sublime film The Lives of Others...The Lives of Others is a rare film achievement, arguably a "perfect" film” – culturevulture.net Mar 12, 2007 Full Review
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