Archive of: Film
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Double-Take: The Tree of LifeLast month, Look/Listen film writers Patricia Brooke and Andrew Wyatt got an early look at "The Tree of Life," the Palm d’Or-winning fifth feature from legendary filmmaker Terrence Malick. This week, they sat down to discuss the highly anticipated film, which opens today at the Landmark Tivoli Theater. |
June 2011 |
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Review: CircoAaron Schock’s outstanding new documentary feature, "Circo," traces all sorts of circles, both literal and metaphorical, as it draws a portrait of the family behind Gran Circo Mexico. |
June 2011 |
Review: 13 AssassinsTakashi Miike's new film is a nearly perfect kick-off for the summer film season, an action-packed film capped by a 45+ minute battle scene but held together by big-picture questions of masculine identity, loyalty, and a life well-led. |
May 2011 | |
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Review: IncendiesQuébécois filmmaker Denis Villeneuve's new feature film, "Incendies," leads its protagonists—and the audience—through a mystery that spans continents and decades. |
May 2011 |
Review: Meek's Cutoff |
May 2011 | |
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Life After Pruitt-Igoe: Nature Finds a Way to Heal Civic DecayPreservationist Michael Allen gave a tour of the former Pruitt-Igoe site in North City as part of this week’s third annual Chautauqua Art Lab; that dovetails with the screening of the documentary "The Pruitt-Igoe Myth," at the Tivoli tonight and Saturday. |
May 2011 |
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Weighty Matters: Catherine Breillat's "Fat Girl," Released on Blu-RayIt's been a decade since Catherine Breillat's anguished and remorseless gut-punch "Fat Girl" alighted on the American film festival circuit. Released on DVD this week, it is still powerful, ten years on. |
May 2011 |
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Review: Sound It OutNeither cinematically daring nor thematically penetrating Sound it Out is still a richly conveyed, honest-to-goodness portrait. |
April 2011 |
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Review: SuperOn Friday, St. Louis expat James Gunn visits the Tivoli for the opening of "Super," starring Rainn Wilson. Click for the review, and info on Pi's new "Super"-themed pizza. |
April 2011 |
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Review: PoetrySouth Korean director Lee Chang-dong's affecting new film follows a 60-something woman as she takes a poetry class—and uses what she learns to cope with the truly monstrous. |
April 2011 |





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