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| Torontoist is a website about Toronto and everything that happens in it. It's edited by David Topping and Marc Lostracco, and published by Gothamist. ... |
Friday, May 16, 2008 --- 70 days ago http://feeds.gothamistllc.com/click.phdo?i=0ab9adfb8acbc2dcfcd22fdefd7b3ddc
Oh, man! It's a quiet week in film for some reason! It's almost like there's a huge film festival halfway across the world that all of the critics and film companies are distracted by, so they forgot to release anything notable this week. After all, Iron Man can take care of itself, right? (If you haven't seen it, it's definitely the kind of summer blockbuster we're happy to recommend, so go for it.)
Well, that's not entirely fair—a new feature-length documentary from Super Size Me 's Morgan Spurlock is pretty noteworthy. We rather enjoyed his 30 Days TV series, even if it was pretty much the version of Wife Swap that didn't feel incredibly disgusting to watch (as it did manage to be at least fairly educational). So we're interested in Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? in a kind of similar fashion (though we'll pause to give props to the Carmen Sandiego reference). After all, it's certainly possible that Spurlock has gained some bad habits from working in TV— Eye 's Jason Anderson laments that "Spurlock…seems so wary of boring viewers over the age of seven he ends up trivializing the topic with corny shtick."
One man who isn't afraid to bore audiences is Hou Hsiao-hsien. That's not to say that we think his movies are boring—just that it would be easy to see them as such. His latest is Flight of the Red Balloon , based on the celebrated children's short that, if our mother's memory is correct, left us ... |
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