Ho Lin
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The Breaking Point (Dir. Michael Curtiz, 1950) A man alone ain’t got no chance. — John Garfield, The Breaking Point [Warning: spoilers follow.] Here’s looking at you, kid: time and…
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One of the pleasures of living in San Francisco (and there’s plenty of downsides, believe me) is the Noir City Film Festival, ably hosted and programmed by Eddie Muller these…
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Munich (2005, Dir. Steven Spielberg) “Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.” — Golda Meir, Munich What defines a Steven Spielberg film, exactly? Maybe it’s…
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005, Dir. Andrew Admamson): “Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. This story…
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Peter Jackson’s King Kong (Dir. Peter Jackson, 2005): Beware the film (or any enterprise) that features the maker’s name prominently above the title. Think M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village. Think…
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005, Dir. Mike Newell): I approach the Harry Potter movies from what may be a different vantage point. I have read exactly one…
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In Praise of Love (Eloge de L’Amour) (2001, Dir. Jean-Luc Godard): This is not a film review. At least, not one of my typical film reviews. Modern time, today time,…
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Foreign Correspondent (1940, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) “All that noise you hear isn’t static—it’s death coming to London. Yes, you can hear the bombs falling on the streets and on the…
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Lost Highway (1997, Dir. David Lynch): “It’s a film made with a certain breezy contempt for audiences. I’ve seen it twice, hoping to make sense of it. There is no…
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We’re dated and categorized by everything — driver’s licenses, birth certificates, college dates of graduation, mortgages, kids — but nothing seems to pigeonhole us, or equate age, quite as much…