Articles by Alan Bacchus

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  I Am Love

  Luca Guadagnino

  PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2010

  In the special feature interviews, director Luca Guadagnino and actress/muse/co-producer Tilda Swinton make numerous references to Luciano...

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  Tales From the Golden Age

  Cristian Mungiu

  PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2010

  I don't know much about Romanian history or politics, but I do know that former Communist era dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu was a brutal...

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  Love the Beast

  Eric Bana

  PUBLISHED Jul 22, 2010

  Before Eric Bana became famous for either his stand-up comedy in Australia or his film work in Hollywood, he was a suburban gear head who l...

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  Barking Dogs Never Bite

  Bong Joon-ho

  PUBLISHED Jul 22, 2010

  There's an old adage in Hollywood: "never kill the dog." Do whatever you can to any of the heroes ― splatter their brains over the wa...

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  The Enforcer / Sudden Impact

  James Fargo / Clint Eastwood

  PUBLISHED Jun 17, 2010

  Dirty Harry is one of cinema's unlikely venerable characters, a conservative, anti-social, pragmatic, asexual who fights crime like a vigil...

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  Death Race 2000

  Paul Bartel

  PUBLISHED Jun 17, 2010

  In the mondo special features of this latest DVD incarnation of Death Race 2000, Roger Corman describes his reaction to reading sci-fi nove...

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  Tokyo Sonata

  Kiyoshi Kurosawa

  PUBLISHED May 13, 2010

  Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Pulse) smartly leaves the languishing J-Horror genre behind him and branches out creatively with this acclaimed and...

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  Freetime Machos

  Mika Ronkainen

  PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2010

  A hapless Finnish Rugby team, affectionately known as "the northern most Rugby team in the world," provides the background and entry point...