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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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Arty Chick’s Seven Flicks: Week 4

November 27, 2020 0 Comments

This week's picks run the gamut from a classic Hollywood epic to one of my favorite action flicks. I've also chosen a bunch of foreign fare. Something from Russia, from…

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Review: Sputnik

August 17, 2020 0 Comments

Russia, 1983. The Cold War is still raging. Two men are orbiting earth in a spacecraft, preparing for their reentry when there is an incident. And when they crash land…

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Review: The Painted Bird

July 16, 2020 0 Comments

Based on Jerzy Kosiński's novel, The Painted Bird is a brutal tale of a young nameless boy's fight to survive on his own during World War II in the wilds…

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Review: Beanpole (Дылда)

February 13, 2020 0 Comments

War is hell. And life after war is, too. Most war films concentrate on the effects that the carnage has on men, but this Russian melodrama looks at how the women…

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Arty Chick’s Middleburg Festival Download

October 27, 2017 0 Comments

What a great festival! It's my first year at Middleburg, now in its 5th year, but I was truly impressed by their selections. It's a small festival, as yet pretty…

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Quickie Reviews: I Do… Until I Don’t; Crown Heights; Polina

August 30, 2017 0 Comments

Nothing gets you pumped for the start of the Fall movie blitz quite like the final weeks of summer at the box office. Bring it on! I'm ready for Awards…