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Queen for a Day, and More - By Donald Levit

Queen Kelly, a most intriguing one-third of a film, and even in this surviving truncated version, is actually two movies and some small change. After studio infighting, it was to have been the pinnacle for Erich von Stroheim, its tempestuous Orson Wellesian director-writer,...

Heartfelt and Funny - By Diana Saenger

Big Miracle, a heartwarming film families will enjoy, could be a commercial for Greenpeace or environmentalists, but the story is actually inspired by true events back in the �80s. Based on the book Freeing the Whales by Thomas Rose, the movie follows...

Death and Life of a Great American City - By Donald Levit

The last of Exit Art�s once weekly �Remaking the American City,� Detroit Wild City/Detroit ville sauvage (in English) is for its final half-hour the most upbeat of the four concise current studies--eighty minutes here, with the longest only thirteen more -- as well as...

Dazzling Images - By Betty Jo Tucker

Suppose you were faced with a choice between living in an eternity of pleasure or performing your duty in a situation filled with danger? In Star Trek: Generations, Captains Kirk and Picard must make this decision. Stalwart as they are, it is not an easy one for either...

Neither More nor Less Than - By Donald Levit

Very much a part of 1964 times they are a-changin� yet ahead of its cinema time, Nothing but a Man won two awards at Venice and was embraced by Nouvelle Vague cin�astes and in 1993 voted into the �culturally, historically or esthetically significant� National Film Registry....

Dancers with Wolves - By Donald Levit

Carpers have noted that, maligned victims of bad press and bogey and fairy stories, �North American gray wolves (C. lupus) have not been known to attack humans without provocation.� However, The Grey is a fiction movie, and expert Ottway (Liam Neeson) does point out...

St. Louis Boo-boos - By Donald Levit

Prior to commercial release, The Pruitt-Igoe Myth was shown at Exit Art, along with a Q&A with Professor of Urban Studies Joseph Heathcott, both an adviser to director Chad Friedrichs and one of the documentary�s talking heads. The third of four in the art center-gallery�s...

Impressive Aerial Acrobatics - By Frank Wilkins

Overtly throwback and unapologetically patriotic, Red Tails is the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, a band of �colored personnel� who fought through racism in America to fly as fighter pilots over Europe for the Army Air Corps during World War II. Though rooted in history, the...

Everything Old Is New Again - By Betty Jo Tucker

The Artist, a mostly silent black-and-white film, has already won numerous awards and is on the way to a well-deserved Best Picture Oscar nomination. Paying tribute to silent movies, this charming motion picture boasts an unpretentious plot about an iconic actor of the silent...

Orphans of the Storm - By Donald Levit

Exhibiting the deleterious effects of movies not necessarily from California but nevertheless reflecting Hollywood soupiness for the heartstrings, The Flowers of War is embarrassing Yimou Zhang. Alleged the most extensive production out of

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