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Arty Chick’s Oscar Ballot

April 23, 2021 0 Comments

Update: I began my Oscar viewing thinking the show was fun and creative, but it went totally off the rails about half way through and ended in the most abrupt…

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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 Picks: Week 5

December 14, 2020 0 Comments

This week’s picks include a healthy dose of Roman decadence, an obsessive and tragic snoop, a ghostly romance, a grieving mother on the warpath, violent union busting, food to die…

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Review: Another Round

December 3, 2020 0 Comments

Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration, Far From the Madding Crowd) directed Mads Michelsen in The Hunt back 2013. In it Mikkelsen played a kindergarten teacher accused of a horrible crime he didn't…

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Review: Koko-di Koko-da

November 2, 2020 0 Comments

Just in time for the holidays comes a truly creepy flick from Sweden about a couple grieving the loss of their young daughter and their crumbling marriage who go on…

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Quickie Review: Border (Gräns)

December 19, 2018 0 Comments

You probably won't see a more satisfyingly strange film this year than Border. The main character is Tina, a Swedish customs agent with an extraordinary talent. She can smell fear…

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Review: The Guilty

October 18, 2018 0 Comments

This Danish thriller aka Den skyldige is simply amazing. There is just one man on camera through almost all the film's 85 minutes, and you can't look away for a…

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The Hunt (Jagten)

July 12, 2013 0 Comments

The Hunt is not a happy movie. And it is a story I feel like I have seen before, though it is all in the telling. The draw here is…

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Melancholia

December 3, 2011 1 Comments

Danish director Lars von Trier is not known for happy movies (Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark) and with Melancholia he keeps true to form. The title clues you…

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In a Better World (Hævnen)

April 7, 2011 1 Comments

In a Better World won the 2011 Academy Award for Best Foreign film and it truly deserved it (though I've yet to see the others besides Biutiful, which was amazing,…