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Home Video Hovel: Love Is the Devil, by Rita Cannon
When John Maybury made Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon in 1998, the British painter’s estate forbade him from using any of Bacon’s actual paintings in the film. Perhaps partly...
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Rita’s Top Ten of 2014
10. They Came Together They Came Together doesn’t get anywhere near the dizzyingly bizarre comic heights of some of David Wain’s previous comedies, but when you’re parodying something as entrenched in...
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BP’s Ten Worst of 2014
This list was compiled from the individual bottom ten lists of Scott, Josh, Aaron, Rita, Craig, Sarah, Jim, Tyler and David. Each film was weighted according to its placement on each individual list....
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The BP Top Ten of 2014
This list was compiled from the individual top ten lists of Scott, Josh, Aaron, Rita, Matt, Craig, Sarah, Jim, Tyler and David. Each film was weighted according to its placement on each individual...
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Lying Flat, by Rita Cannon
Victor Levin’s wispy romance 5 to 7 positions itself as a film about The One That Got Away, about a great love that can sadly never come to fruition. It’s plastered wall to wall with traditional...
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Tracing the Steps, by Rita Cannon
Everyone knows the story: In the 19th century, a young girl is both blind and deaf. She grows up a prisoner of her own disability, unable to communicate, lashing out violently whenever she’s upset or...
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Dances with Films Review: Fools, by Rita Cannon
Benjamin Meyer’s feature debut Fools is a deeply felt, delicate little portrait of two very troubled people who should absolutely be in therapy, but instead choose to weave their discrete threads of...
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Dino Sore, by Rita Cannon
Jurassic World is a lot more slick and cynical than its predecessors, and it wants you to know that it knows that. The first 30 minutes of the film is full of winking references to how the world, and...
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Rita’s Top Ten of 2015
10. Magic Mike XXL Despite its hip-hop heavy soundtrack and preponderance of naked male butts, the real charms of Magic Mike XXL are the same ones you’d find in a Hollywood musical from fifty or sixty...
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Dances with Films 2016: Creedmoria, by Rita Cannon
Alicia Slimmer’s coming-of-age comedy Creedmoria was inspired by her actual experiences growing up in Queens in the 1980s and it definitely feels like a film based on someone’s memories, for better...
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8. Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstyn REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, THE EXORCIST, ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE, SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW A product of the Actor’s Studio, Ellen Burstyn has played over 150...
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6. Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore BOOGIE NIGHTS, SAFE, FAR FROM HEAVEN, STILL ALICE, MAGNOLIA, THE BIG LEBOWSKI, THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, SHORT CUTS, THE HOURS Julianne Moore’s greatest strength might be her ability to...
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4. Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck DOUBLE INDEMNITY, THE LADY EVE, MEET JOHN DOE, SORRY, WRONG NUMBER, BABY FACE To call Barbara Stanwyck a versatile performer would be an understatement. In a career that spanned over...
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3. Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn THE AFRICAN QUEEN, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, BRINGING UP BABY, THE LION IN WINTER, ON GOLDEN POND, GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER The golden age of Hollywood produced a lot of female...
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Spettacolo: Synecdoche, Italy, by Rita Cannon
The post Spettacolo: Synecdoche, Italy, by Rita Cannon appeared first on Battleship Pretension. Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen’s documentary Spettacolo focuses on the tiny Italian village of...
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Call Me By Your Name: Electric, by Rita Cannon
The post Call Me By Your Name: Electric, by Rita Cannon appeared first on Battleship Pretension. Watching Luca Guadagnino’s astonishing Call Me By Your Name is a moving experience. But watching it in...
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The Disaster Artist: Pity Laugh, by Rita Cannon
The post The Disaster Artist: Pity Laugh, by Rita Cannon appeared first on Battleship Pretension. The very first shot of James Franco’s The Disaster Artist is a close-up of Kristen Bell’s face. She’s...
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In the Fade: What Remains, by Rita Cannon
The post In the Fade: What Remains, by Rita Cannon appeared first on Battleship Pretension. Fatih Akin’s revenge drama In The Fade was inspired by real-life attacks committed by neo-Nazis against...
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