An inventive remembrance of the impact of the Hollywood blacklist on two American classics, rendered as a visually mesmerizing dialogue between Carl Foreman, voiced by Edward Norton, and Elia Kazan, voiced by John Turturro.

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

Many thanks to @Gene for this copy

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Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.

	
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Synopsis:
An unprecedented look inside the private world of J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye.

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Subtitles:None

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Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his porn magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people. Written by Kenneth Chisholm

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Subtitles:English

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“Down In The Valley is the ideal project for Jacobson, who has already shown his affinity for marginalized, outlaw figures in Criminal (1994) and Dahmer (2002). His Harlan – part rootless romantic, part self-reliant individualist, part gun-toting fantasist, part self-appointed hero, part deluded psychotic – is the embodiment of the American Dream in all its schizophrenic contradictions; and by serving all at once as critique of, homage to, and requiem for, the nostalgic values that Harlan tries to uphold, Jacobson’s film dramatises the powerful hold that the cowboy myth continues to exercise, both as a genre and as a wider ideology, over the modern American psyche.

Down In The Valley is also a throwback to the golden age of 1970s cinema, when heroes were anti-heroes, messages were mixed, and character was king. Norton puts in an assured performance, managing to retain the viewer’s sympathy even as his suburban cowboy rides out from his initially sweet romance with Tobe to the darker filmic territories of Taxi Driver (1976) and Dear Wendy (2005).”

“The Western as allegory has been utilized to great effect in American film. From representing a lost idea as in the opening scenes of The Right Stuff to Near Dark’s outlaw vampires, the fundamentals of Old West theology are probably older than the timeline itself. It’s why the western will remain the only fully true American genre; continuing to inspire storytellers long after cowboy hats and spurs has been wiped from the planet. Writer/director David Jacobson wants to instill a feeling of the simpler (if still violent) times with Down in the Valley, but foregoes the mythos and passion resulting in a methodically paced, muddled examination of yet another potential burgeoning psycho on his resume of anti-heroes.”

“The title of David Jacobson’s drama evokes the open plains and frontier simplicity of a folk song. The valley that it refers to, San Fernando, is anything but. In indistinct suburbs and generic city streets on the outskirts of Los Angeles, restless teenager Tobe (Evan Rachel Wood) is on hormonal overdrive, petulant and angry in every exchange with stepdad Wade (David Morse).

Younger brother Lon (Rory Culkin) is a nervous loner who is still afraid of the dark. You can feel Wade’s discomfort in the role of single-father figure to two teenage kids in every broken conversation. No one speaks of the absent mother and the silence defines every awkward moment and emotional scuff.

Into Tobe’s need strolls Harlan Carruthers (Edward Norton), a drawling cowboy with an easygoing acceptance and a romantic sweetness. His aura of confidence and authenticity is so seductive to both Tobe and Lon that they never question this “crazy cowboy” in Los Angeles.

Norton also was a producer on the film and you can see his attraction to the angry, alienated figure who turns ferocious when his comforting identity is threatened by his past. Norton brings conviction to the role as his fantasy life escalates from play-acting cowboy movies in his apartment to going Travis Bickle with increasingly hostile monologues played with a mirror and a Colt .45.

The film is thrown off balance by the weight of Norton’s compassion for this troubled soul, shifted from the troubled relationship of the frayed family unraveled by Harlan’s influence to his private psychodrama. Each revelation only makes him more of an enigma than a character, while the more dramatically volatile story of family crisis and emotional hesitancy is left in this urban cowboy’s dust.”

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Visionary director Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs tells the story of Atari Kobayashi, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast Trash Island, Atari sets off in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots. With the assistance of his newfound mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture.

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A starry cast, deadpan humour and deft nods to Japanese cinema make this animated film an unusually delightful dystopia.

There’s something about Berlin that suits a Wes Anderson film and vice versa. A few years back the Hotel Adlon, next to the Brandenburg Gate, boasted a huge, gorgeous scale model of the Grand Budapest Hotel in the lobby. This year most of what is a long and illustrious Isle of Dogs voice cast list – Bryan Cranston, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Bob Balaban, Greta Gerwig, Tilda Swinton – has turned up in person to promote Anderson’s second stop-animated film (after Fantastic Mr. Fox). The belief and backing is there, I assume, because it’s such a winningly affectionate and delightfully detailed dystopian fable.

Set 20 years in the future, mostly on an island off the coast of an imaginary Japan, Isle of Dogs takes pollution and disease as normal, and a war between cat-lovers and dog-lovers as ancient and traditional. In Megasaki city, the cat-lovers have the upper hand, and with outbreaks of Snout Fever and Dog Flu rife, Mayor Kobayashi (deep voiced by Kunichi Nomura) is able to pass a decree exiling all dogs to Trash Island – literally an open waste facility. Soon the dogs are scrapping over scraps, not least the informal, putatively democratic gang of Alpha Dogs made up of diffident leader Rex (Edward Norton), former sports mascot Boss (Bill Murray), former advert-dog King (Balaban), arch gossip Duke (Goldblum) and, the stray loner Chief (Cranston) who warns all with cute menace that “I bite.”

When Mayor Kobayashi’s teenage ward Atari crashlands on the island looking for his former pet Spot, a double narrative unfolds wherein the Alphas and Atari go on a quest to find ‘Dog Zero’, while the Mayor sends robot attack dogs to retrieve Atari. Meanwhile on the mainland righteous exchange student Tracy Walker (Gerwig) works with her student newspaper Daily Manifesto to find the Snout Fever serum that Kobayashi has suppressed.

Brimful of brilliant, subtly inflected deadpan face-offs of one kind or another – often between the Dogs, whose barking we hear as English, and the Japanese, whose speech requires on-screen interpretation for the rest of us (and often we don’t get it) – Isle of Dogs is a big leap up from Mr. Fox. The voice work and puppetry is combined in compelling fashion, giving the big close-ups of these lovingly mangy critters something more than Creature Comforts personality – just wait until you get to meet Gondo, the affronted leader of the island’s aboriginal dogs, who briefly occasions some of Harvey Keitel’s best work of recent years.

Anderson’s visualisations, and the lines that he and his writing team (Nomura, Roman Coppola and Jason Schwatzman) come up with, draw at times on Japanese cinema classics (particularly Kurosawa Akira’s 1960s crime films), pop culture and on traditional woodblock prints in the most joyful way. Given that Isle of Dogs was conceived, says Anderson, over the last four and half years, it’s hard to say if its depiction of Mayor Kobayashi is meant to reflect in politics closer to Anderson’s home, but it works that way if you want it to.

And as with all of the director’s films, you should try not to read too much about it, since the pleasure is so much in encountering the gags – the occasional adroit use of haikus, for instance – as they happen on screen. In this flu-ridden winter, it’s also great to spend time with such charming sufferers of snout-fever.

https://nitro.download/view/46F0AD8369A88E2/Isle.of.Dogs.2018.576p.Bluray.AC3.x264-LAA.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, French, Spanish

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