Articles by Robert Bell

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  Naked Lunch [Blu-Ray]

  David Cronenberg

  PUBLISHED Apr 29, 2013

  As noted in Chris Rodley's essay, "So Deep in My Heart that You're Really a Part of Me", included in the front sleeve booklet of Criterion'...

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  The Last Station

  Catalina Vergara & Cristian Soto

  PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2013

  The relevance of comparisons to the works of painter Vilhelm Hammershoi are clear during the opening montage of The Last Station. The resi...

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  The Auctioneer

  Hans Olson

  PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2013

  Auctioneer and mortician Dale Menzak is one of the few moderately affluent members of a rural Alberta farming community. Selling off machi...

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  Fight Like Soldiers, Die Like Children

  Patrick Reed

  PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2013

  In 1993, the now-retired General, Roméo Dallaire, served as the force commander of UNAMIR, the U.N. peacekeeping force in Rwanda that tried...

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  The Impossible [Blu-Ray]

  Juan Antonio Bayona

  PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2013

  One of the most memorable attributes of Juan Antonio Bayona's emotionally wrenching true story about the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 is th...

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  Alcan Highway

  Aleksi Salmenperä

  PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2013

  In narrative form, Finnish director Aleksi Salmenperä often tackles traditional heteronormative roles and masculinity as an inherently cont...

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  Becoming Redwood

  Jesse James Miller

  PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2013

  In trying to emulate the genre characteristics and stylistic whimsies of the idiosyncratic coming-of-age comedy, there's an inherent discon...

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  Upside Down

  Juan Solanas

  PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2013

  Much like his little-seen directorial debut, Northeast, Juan Solanas's Upside Down is a scathing critique of capitalism and dictatorships,...