Category Archives: film

Why I Don’t Cry At The Movies

Posted on June 21, 2010 by queerlefty

Movies don’t make me cry, not even in private. I think the last time I cried in a movie theater must have when I saw Free Willy when I was about seven. I get close to crying, though, and quite … Continue reading →

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Taking Woodstock Out Of ‘Taking Woodstock’

Posted on November 21, 2009 by queerlefty

Ang Lee doesn’t owe me anything. If any, I owe him to be grateful for the impressive string of great films he has made over the years, from Sense and Sensibility and The Ice Storm, to Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon … Continue reading →

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Best Picture Category At The Oscars Expands To Ten. Should We Care?

Posted on June 24, 2009 by queerlefty

Today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that the slate of nominees for next year’s Best Picture category at the Oscars will be expanded from 5 to 10, at least in part to accommodate this year’s outcry … Continue reading →

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What ‘The Dark Knight’ Could Mean For Ledger’s Legacy

Posted on April 30, 2009 by queerlefty

I’m not writing this piece because I want to diminish Heath Ledger enigmatic performance as Joker in The Dark Knight in any way. He brought a combination of cartoonish evilness and truly unpredictable darkness to Christopher Nolan’s wonderfully rich reboot … Continue reading →

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Harvey Milk, I’m Here To Salute You

Posted on February 21, 2009 by queerlefty

With the Oscars (which we all pretend to ignore, but ultimately don’t) just days away, Gus van Sant’s Milk has finally come to Norwegian movie theaters. For months I’ve been hearing great things about this movie, and over the last … Continue reading →

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What I Loved Last Year: The Best Films Of 2008

Posted on January 5, 2009 by queerlefty

From Norway, the year in cinema might look a little different than how it looks for American critics and moviegoers trying to summarize 2008. The Oscar contenders are still weeks or even months away from our movie theaters, which means … Continue reading →

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Squid, Whale, Meet Margot At The Wedding

Posted on December 23, 2008 by queerlefty

From a professional standpoint I’m more interested in directors than actors, and therefore it won’t necessarily take more than one good movie for me to strike a loyal relationship to a film-maker. Thus, when I first saw Gregg Araki‘s Mysterious … Continue reading →

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Sex, Politics And Cinema Is The Holy Trinity In ‘The Dreamers’

Posted on December 16, 2008 by queerlefty

Last week, I read an interesting opinion piece in a Norwegian weekly, arguing that this year’s 40th anniversary of the protests of 1968 should mark our final goodbye to this mythical milestone of political and cultural opposition. Even though the … Continue reading →

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These Are The Young Leonardos

Posted on December 13, 2008 by queerlefty

When he first made himself a reputation in the early to-mid nineties, Leonardo DiCaprio was often compared to River Phoenix, who died of an overdose in 1993, after having shown off his obvious talents in movies like Stand By Me … Continue reading →

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‘W.’ Is No Laughing Matter

Posted on December 8, 2008 by queerlefty

Having sat through the entirety of Oliver Stone’s promising yet ultimately disappointing George W. Bush biopic W., I wanted to scream at him that he should leave poor Freud out of his presidential portrait. There is much to commend here … Continue reading →

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