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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Outlander (2008, USA)
What would you expect from a movie about a humanoid alien crashing his spaceship into Norway in the year 709 as he is running from another alien, who is ultrasmart and more or less looks and behaves like a dragon? … Continue reading
Tel: Arafat’s Elephant (2002)
One of the many Jonathan Tel‘s talents is that he can use different voices. Every single one of the 17 short stories,none of them longer than ten pages, in “Arafat’s Elephant” is written from a different perspectives and covers a … Continue reading
Sib (The Apple, 1998, Iran)
I have a bit of a personal history with the Iranian film “Gabbeh.” I attempted to watch it at least twice in small art house movie theaters in Hungary and on both occasion I fell asleep. More or less at … Continue reading
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Robinson: The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)
Last week I went to the concert of Janos Brody, a Hungarian artist, where he introduced one of the songs with this joke: “I don’t believe in reincarnation. I didn’t believe it in my past life either.” It doesn’t matter … Continue reading
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The Memory Keeper’s Daughter (2008, USA)
When my wife read the Kim Edwards’ book, “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter” for weeks she couldn’t talk about anything else. Fortunately she didn’t tell me the whole story or its end, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to enjoy the … Continue reading
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