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A collection of 11 posts

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Specials: Fantasy Debut Talks Auralia's Colors; Walter Talks Lars and the Real Girl

Three quick notes before I close up shop here at 1 a.m. ... I had a chat with Fantasy Debut's Tia Nevitt about Auralia's Colors this week, which you're welcome to read. She asked thoughtful questions. (A while back, she finished reading the book

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Adam Walter on violent movies, scary movies, and Flannery O'Connor

The most interesting thing I read all day was Adam Walter's post on the difference between "disturbing" films and "scary" films. He ends up talking about the effect of violence in art, and quoting a lot of Flannery O'Connor, which is always

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Specials: Defending "Bubble." Poo-pooing Proulx's poo-poo. New Issues of Paste and Risen! Bad Refs.

Defending Bubble. What to do when friends disagree over movies? Jessica Poundstone wrote in to take issue with Adam Walter's assessment of Soderbergh's Bubble: I'm tempted to do a point-by-point rebuttal of Walter's review, since I disagree with nearly all of it.

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Specials: New Ron Sexsmith music! Greydanus flunks V. Walter on Soderbergh.

NEW RON SEXSMITH MUSIC! My friend Jessica Poundstone, a vigilant Ron Sexsmith fan, send me this today: at his site Ouch. The song is from the upcoming Mitchell Froom-produced album Time Being, coming to stores May 16. Oh, and the secret to relentless blogging, Jessica? It's love. But

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MirrorMask

Wow. I... Wow. I am punishing myself today for not seeing MirrorMask in the theater. I sat down to watch this last night because I was tired and wanted something that wouldn't demand too much attention... something that would, basically, take my mind off of the busy day

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Specials: Rosenbaum on "Three Burials." Walter on "Crash." And the sequel we've all been waiting for.

Monday specials: "A QUIRKY COWBOY MASTERPIECE" Jonathan Rosenbaum raves about Tommy Lee Jones' directorial debut: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. There are elements in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada that I tend to distrust when they crop up in other movies. There's the

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Specials: Sundance review. Walter's "New World" rave. "Lost" money. DaVinci debut. X3 pic. New mom Jessica Poundstone. And Seahawks.

Monday specials:SUNDANCE ME TO THE END OF MEDIOCRE FILMSGreenCine coverage of the Sundance Film Festival is almost too expansive to comprehend. So many movies, so many reviews. From a review of Thank You for Smoking that calls it "I Heart Huckabees For Dummies," to a review of

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Adam Walter Really, Really Doesn't Like the Narnia Film

Walter rants. NarniaThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Looking Elsewhere: November 17, 2005

Wednesday specials: THIS YEAR'S DEMILLELecter will get some lovin'.DOES ASLAN HAVE A THEME? Listen to clips from the first Narnia soundtrack here! WALTER SEZ: GO SHOPPING! After stirring things up with his controversial post about Wendell Berry, now Adam Walter's stirring a different pot.

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Whit Stillman returns!

Thanks to Adam Walter for discovering news about the next project from Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco)... Jane Austen's Winchester Races! Walter also links to The Wall Street Journal's review of the new novel by Mark Helprin. Because of these fine discoveries,

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Adam Walter sees the first Haruki Murakami movie

Adam Walter wants you to know that the first film ever made based on Haruki Murakami's work is "as good as anything [he's] seen in the past five years." Adam posted this in the comments earlier, but it deserves a post of its own: