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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 27, 2012
Getting by in four recent American comedies

Comparing Bernie, Magic Mike, Moonrise Kingdom, and Silver Linings Playbook in terms of style and themes
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Comedy, American comedy, year in review, best of 2012, Silver Linings Playbook, Bernie, Magic Mike, Moonrise Kingdom, David O. Russell, Richard Linklater, Steven Soderbergh, Wes Anderson, Bruce Willis, Channing Tatum, recession, bipolar disorder, Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey, Cody Horn, community, Alex Pettyfer, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Variations on a Theme

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 27, 2012
My favorite films of 2012

Top Ten Films of 2012
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Things I Love, Film, The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson, Two Years at Sea, Ben Rivers, Haywire, Steven Soderbergh, Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson, The Comedy, Rick Alverson, Goodbye First Love, Mia Hanson-Love, Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, The Day He Arrives, Hong Sang-soo, The Deep Blue Sea, Terrence Davies, A Burning Hot Summer, Philippe Garrel, Bernie, Richard Linklater, Killer Joe, William Friedkin, Wuthering Heights, Andrea Arnold, Tchoupitoulas, Bill Ross, Turner Ross, The Color Wheel, Alex Ross Perry, Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh, Alps, Yorgos Lanthimos, Let the Bullets Fly, Wen Jiang, Wanderlust, David Wain, Keyhole, Guy Maddin, Attenberg, Athina Rachel Tsangari, This is Not a Film, Jafar Panahi, The Innkeepers, Ti West, In Another Country, Hong Sang-soo, 2012), 21 Jump Street, Phil Lord, Chris Miller, Beyond the Hills, Christian Mungiu, Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel, Mekong Hotel, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Post Tenebras Lux, Carlos Reygadas, Hors Satan, Bruno Dumont, Aita, José María de Orbe, Memories of a Morning, Jose Luis Guerin, Palaces of Pity, Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 18, 2012
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Best human-interest documentary of 2012

Best of 2012 Countdown: human-interest documentary
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Fake It So Real, Robert Greene, documentary, North Carolina, amateur wrestling, Jonathan Demme, Magic Mike, Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet, Searching for Sugar Man, Sixto Rodriguez, Malik Bendjelloul, folk rock, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 16, 2012
Cinema studies to remain at Columbia College

Columbia president Warrick Carter reverses his earlier recommendation to cut Cinema Studies courses; students and faculty benefit
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Education, Film, Columbia College, Film and Video Department, Cinema Studies, Warrick Carter, Bruce Sheridan, Ron Falzone, Warren Chapman, film history, film theory, Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson, Steven Soderbergh, Magic Mike, Moonrise Kingdom, Bernie, Hal Ashby, Pierrot le Fou

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 12, 2012
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A Burning Hot Summer screens, with air conditioning

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Steven Soderbergh, Ben Sachs, Soderbergh, Che, The Informant!, The Girlfriend Experience, Contagion, Haywire, Magic Mike, A Burning Hot Summer, Philippe Garrel, Devotional Cinema, Nathaniel Dorsky, Elena movie, Andrey Zvyagintsev, The Return movie, How to Grow a Band, Chris Thile, The Jesus Trip, Neil Young Journeys, Jonathan Demme, Pom Poko, Studio Ghibli, Isao Takahata, Grave of the Fireflies, My Neighbors the Yamadas, Savages movie, Oliver Stone, Take This Waltz, Sarah Polley, Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front, Edgar G. Ulmer, The Black Cat, Samuel Fuller, House of Bamboo, Robert Ryan, Billy Wilder, Kiss Me Stupid, G.W. Pabst, Pandora's Box, Dennis Scott, Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away, K-Town Film Festival, Better Boys' Foundation, American Revolution 2, The Chicago Maternity Center Story, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 9, 2012
What's new again: Hal Ashby's The Last Detail (1973)

Revisiting the New Hollywood classic in light of Steven Soderbergh's 70s homage Magic Mike
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Film, The Last Detail, Hal Ashby, Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh, Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid, New Hollywood, Me Generation, Gilda Radner, antiauthoritarianism

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 6, 2012
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Take This Waltz, and more in this week's (and next week's) notable screenings

A preview of this week's notable screenings
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Sarah Polley, Away From Her, Take This Waltz, Christmas in July, Preston Sturges, The Apartment, Billy Wilder, The General, Buster Keaton, Shaw Brothers, Chang Cheh, The Water Margin, Manhunter, Michael Mann, The Ocean Waves, Studio Ghibli, Castle in the Sky, Hayao Miyazaki, The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock, Jaws, Steven Spielberg, Turn Me On Dammit, Savages, Oliver Stone, Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Day He Arrives, Hong Sang-soo, The Do-Deca-Pentathlon, Duplass brothers, Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 3, 2012
What's new again: the films of Michael Ritchie

Revisiting the comedy-dramas of the New Hollywood director in light of Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Film, Michael Ritchie, The Bad News Bears, Prime Cut, Downhill Racer, Smile, Semi-Tough, Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh, Hal Ashby, New Hollywood, 1970s cinema, Shampoo, The Last Detail, Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Frederick Wiseman, cynicism, The Candidate, Bruce Dern

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 29, 2012
Now playing: Magic Mike and a new generation of "bad news"

A short review of the male stripper comedy directed, improbably, by Steven Soderbergh
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh, Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Ritchie, The Bad News Bears, Bob Rafelson, Stay Hungry, economic recession

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