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		<title>American Film Institue Names Best of 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Film Institute has rolled out its AFI Awards, an annual top ten list of the year&#8217;s best films. AFI&#8217;s 2009 list includes Coraline, The Hangover, The Hurt Locker, The Messenger, Precious, A Serious Man, A Single Man, Sugar, Up and Up in The Air. I can agree with all of those, however I haven&#8217;t seen The Messenger, A Single Man, Sugar or Up in The Air. I was hoping to see the latter, but apparently in the world of film critics there are no promises or friends. I will say I am surprised to see The Hangover on this list. Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; great movie, but best of &#8217;09? No way. The Utah Film Critics Association will vote on its &#8220;best of&#8221; 2009 this Thursday and I&#8217;ll be sure to post the results Thursday evening. Last year The Dark Knight was the UFCA&#8217;s choice for best picture. Frankly, I have my leanings, but I am clueless as to what our group will pick for 2009. In the meantime, check out the video below to see a rundown of AFI&#8217;s Best of 2009.]]></description>
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		<title>Award Season: A Serious Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh yeah! Award season is here, which means films that weren&#8217;t released wide or screened to critics may end up on our docket. It also means we&#8217;ll be posting reviews which aren&#8217;t as &#8220;timely&#8221;. Instead of posting the full review and enduring the reprimands of the calendar conscious, we&#8217;ll post a cute little snippet. If you like what you see, you can choose your own adventure and click the blurb to read the whole thing. Or don&#8217;t. What do we care. Dan&#8217;s Take (C): A Serious Man is a film asking for repeated viewings–all of which would continue to unwrap more insights– but whose initially dry deliberation intentionally creates a barrier to entry. A Serious Man is pinpoint accurate in its dour insight and poker-faced delivery (truly–there are perhaps a mild chuckle or two to be found here- nothing more), but in a world where most everyone’s had a year where they’ve absorbed as much abuse as Larry does, it’s just not that compelling. Andy&#8217;s Take (D+): &#8230;I appreciate the love and devotion given to the story and characters by the Coen brothers, but on the other, I just can’t recommend this picture to anyone who isn’t looking for the movie equivalent of a root canal or prostate exam.  Some will say I’m a killjoy with my assessment, but most of those beret-wearing snobs have their head buried so far up the ass of independent film they do cartwheels over cinema that borders on the sadomasochistic. Just because a film is labeled as art doesn’t mean it’s enjoyable. Such is the case with A Serious Man.]]></description>
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		<title>Move Review&#8211;Dan: A Serious Man (C)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Coen brothers can be obtuse filmmakers: operating as if to apply their master&#8217;s touch on mainstream films solely for building the studio goodwill needed to produce the films they&#8217;re really interested in making. Such is the case with A Serious Man. It&#8217;s not mainstream. It&#8217;s not even midstream. Critics will love it, but the general audience won&#8217;t see it and those who do will find it totally, inaccessibly boring. Which doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s bad- it just means A Serious Man is a labor of love. It&#8217;s not for anyone but the Coens. If you happen to get on board, well, then all the better. As is the Coen&#8217;s usual, A Serious Man brims with sociological ribbing. It&#8217;s a Jewish-themed parable, a dark comedy, an existential faith exploration, a look at good guys finishing last and a filmic high five to the concept that life sucks and then you die. But beyond the standard Coen quirk, it&#8217;s just not 110 minutes interesting. Larry Gopnick (Michael Stuhlbarg) is a good guy. Unfortunately, a hundred years or so previous, his ancestors made the foolhardy decision of allowing a dybbuk&#8211; a wandering spirit&#8211; into their home. Thanks to the sins of his fathers, Larry is now destined to live a life duly cursed&#8211; a delinquent son, an unfaithful wife, legal woes, multi-faceted job drama, a car crash, a pathetic, live-in brother and a faith that isn&#8217;t doing much to help him make sense of it all. All this sandwiched between two neighbors: one a scary, gun-toting man&#8217;s man, the other a lonely and willing Cougar. All the suburban bedlam is pure irony, as Larry spends all day transcribing incredibly complex equations explaining the order of the universe as a physics professor at a local university. Like a watered down, scriptural Job, Larry can&#8217;t explain his own chaos. He seeks counsel from an endless procession of rabbis who can&#8217;t explain it either, each resorting to various go-to religious cliches in the attempt. The story unfolds by stacking one problem after the other, each shouting for attention in their freneticism. Larry&#8217;s only escapes are played out in increasingly vivid dreams where his id gets the better of him, but Larry is too interested in being the good guy&#8211; the civil guy&#8211; to take much action in real life. Even when Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed), the man who&#8217;s stolen Larry&#8217;s wife and seeks Larry&#8217;s support for religiously sanctioned divorce, suggests Larry leave his house so he can move in and make things &#8220;good for everyone&#8221;, Larry rolls over and acquiesces. He&#8217;s a hopeless cause really, and Larry labors through the abuse hoping for the best in a theologically underpinned ideal to be &#8220;a serious man&#8221; while resolutely taking all the beatings life has to offer. The Coen brothers are in usual form here. Quirk abounds, &#8220;gotcha&#8221; violence is used as punctuation and characters are deadpan serious&#8211; all subtly played with light frivolity and an undercurrent of gallows gloom. Michael Stuhlbarg is believably funny and sympathetic in...]]></description>
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		<title>Trailer Tuesday: A Serious Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This might be the most annoying yet entertaining trailer I&#8217;ve ever seen. I rode the entire 1:40 out simultaneously laughing and wanting to bash my head in with a hammer. What you see below is a preview for the new movie from Joel and Ethan Coen, another black comedy written, directed and produced by the pair. The story is about a Jewish professor living in a Minneapolis suburb, who, despite his best efforts to be a &#8220;serious man,&#8221; is plummeting headfirst into a mid-life crisis, most of which not by his choosing. His wife wants a divorce, his son and daughter are stealing money from him, his loser brother lives on his couch and he is further chagrined by his nudist female neighbor and a student at school trying to blackmail him for a good grade. I don&#8217;t know about you, but I loved Burn After Reading, so this should be pure comedy bliss from the Coen boys.]]></description>
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