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28 September 2007
The Bridge (2006)
Eric Steel’s documentary The Bridge has an alarmingly fatalistic and derivative tag line: Be afraid of what lies beneath… Did the marketers even watch this thing? Physically speaking, are they actually invoking the water itself below the bridge, suggesting perhaps that’s what’s doing the killing? Or are they talking about Mr Steel’s soul, because really [...]
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26 September 2007
Zodiac (2006)
It’s hard to make a movie that doesn’t have an ending. It reminded me a bit of JFK without the monologue at the end. At least you knew when that one was over: failure was its denoument. Here you have the same overwhelming load of facts buried through a shifting ensemble of characters (the cartoonist [...]
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4 September 2007
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
I haven’t got a lot to say about Perfume: Etc. for a number of reasons — it wasn’t particularly interesting, and I saw it a couple weeks ago. Alas, that it was on the Netflix queue so it deserves: it didn’t really suck. You get to see a supremely surreal Dustin Hoffman: goodness gracious, what [...]
