New reviews: The Class, Three Monkeys, Ballast
The Class (dir: Laurent Cantet) Laurent Cantet’s The Class is one of five films up for an Academy Award on Sunday and one of the best films of 2008. Shot like a documentary, structured like a dramatic...
View ArticleDVDs for 11/10/09 – Going Up with Pixar and back to Earth with a little Ballast
The most tender, touching and deftly told love story of the year is in the opening few minutes of Up (Disney), a wordless survey of a lifelong romance that plays out between the meeting of two...
View ArticleBallast on TCM
I’ve already raved about Lance Hammer’s Ballast, a raw, powerful film from the real American indie scene (the one without stars, budgets or studio backing), in my DVD columns on MSN and on my blog...
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