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Arty Chick’s Seven Flicks: Week 13

April 21, 2021 0 Comments

This week's picks are heavy on big name directors: Louis Malle, Akira Kurasawa, Volker Schlöndorff, Ingmar Bergman, Billie August, Hal Ashby, and John Huston. Many of these are their first…

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Review: My Octopus Teacher

April 19, 2021 1 Comments

With the Oscars just a few days away, I'm trying to catch up on all the ones that slipped by. I'd heard about My Octopus Teacher from friends, but thought…

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Oscar Nominated Shorts 2021

April 12, 2021 0 Comments

The Academy Awards show will take place this year on Sunday, April 25th, much later in the year than usual after it was pushed back 2 months because of…

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Review: Quo Vadis, Aida?

March 25, 2021 0 Comments

Talk about a film that's hard to watch! This Oscar nominee from Bosnia and Herzegovina tells the horrifying story of the days leading up to the 1995 massacre of 8,000+…

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Arty Chick’s Seven Flicks: Week 12

March 22, 2021 0 Comments

This week I chose a comedy thriller, a political thriller, a classic screwball comedy, a wartime romance, a storybook romance, a Japanese existential drama, and a loving ode to an…

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Arty Chick’s Seven Flicks: Week 11

March 8, 2021 0 Comments

Most of this week’s films come from the 80s. There's a jewel heist, a race riot, a dystopian bounty hunter, an academia story, three murderers, a couple of divorces, and a…

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Arty Chick’s Seven Picks: Week 10

February 26, 2021 0 Comments

This week is heavy on movies about couples. They include rom-coms and complicated relationship stories, and the characters range from criminals to musicians to politicians, from kings to bakers. The…

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Review: La Llorona

February 19, 2021 0 Comments

This political horror film takes its title from a Meso-American folkloric legend about the ghost of a woman who roams waterfront areas mourning her drowned children. In the film La…

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Quickie Review: 17 Blocks

February 17, 2021 0 Comments

I saw this one at AFI DOCS in 2019, back when we could still go to festivals. And it's just now coming into theaters virtually. 17 Blocks is a sad…

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Arty Chick’s Seven Flicks: Week 9

February 9, 2021 0 Comments

Week Nine of films that I remember fondly. It's amazing how many great films come to mind when I go down my cinematic memory lane. A lot of this week's…

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Arty Chick’s Seven Picks: Week 8

January 25, 2021 0 Comments

This week's picks include classics and cult faves. There's only one foreign film in the bunch for a change of pace. Two of the films come from the same director,…

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Review: One Night in Miami

January 14, 2021 0 Comments

Academy Award winning actress Regina King's extraordinary directorial debut is an adaptation of a play that tells the story of one evening in 1964 when four African-American icons get together…

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Arty Chick’s Seven Flicks: Week 7

January 10, 2021 0 Comments

This week's picks won boatloads of Oscars and had nominations galore. They hail from France, and Italy, and Germany, and Spain, and one has no dialogue. When I put together…

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Arty Chick’s Seven Picks: Week 6

December 22, 2020 0 Comments

This week's picks include two French films that couldn't be more dissimilar, one a psychological thriller, and the other a magical story set in Paris. There's an Italian ode to…

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Review: First Cow

December 20, 2020 0 Comments

Sometime in the early 19th century somewhere in the Pacific Northwest two men meet in the woods near a trappers' encampment. One of them is naked. What follows is the…