March 2011
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Certified Copy (2010, Dir. Abbas Kiarostami): “The movie started when he invited me to Tehran and one night he started talking about a story that happened to him in Italy,…
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When Love Comes (2010, Dir. Chang Tso-chi): The family drama may be a staple of cinema the world over, but thanks to the likes of director Edward Yang and his…
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Shutter Island (2010, Martin Scorcese): Martin Scorcese is cinema’s answer to U2 — both like to do things grand and often teeter on the thin line between operatic and overweening,…
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Chinatown (Dir. Roman Polanski, 1974): Chinatown opens with photos of a tawdry wife getting it on with an adulterer in the bushes, the visual equivalent of a dirty joke. By…