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A couple of months ago, I walked through a Seattle farmers’ market where people were browsing the bounty of produce, arts, and crafts, and passed some young men who were holding up pictures of Obama that had been altered so he would look like Hitler.

And yet they were not arrested. They were not jailed. They were not marked for death. They were free men in a free country, free to express their astonishing ignorance and hatred.

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Zhang Yimou has become quite an unpredictable, interesting director in recent years. He established himself with lush, dramatic, even operatic historical pieces, and more recently reinvented himself as a master of colorful, elaborately choreographed martial arts dramas like Hero and House of Flying Daggers. Along the way, there was the quiet, poetic epic The Road Home. And most recently, he baffled everybody by remaking the Coen Brothers‘ crime-story classic Blood Simple.

What’s next? He and Christian Bale are joining forces for an interesting project. And it looks like Christian Bale will be playing a Christian character again for the first time since… what, The New World?

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Steven Greydanus’ review of Tron: Legacy is up!
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Here are a few of the most intriguing links I visited over the past week: (more…)

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Go, Jon Stewart, go! (more…)

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Wim Wenders’ last few films have been rather experimental dramas. And now he has another documentary – this time on dance – that looks thrilling.

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What words died in 2010? (more…)

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Here comes what will probably be the most memorable movie event of 2011 for me… (more…)

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My review of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is up at Good Letters. (more…)

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