Movie Review | 'The Wicker Man': Learning All About the Girls and the Bees
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ÂThe Wicker ManÂ is a comically inept as a horror movie, unable to even manage an effective false scare, or sustain suspense for more than a beat or two.
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LISBON, Feb 11 (IPS) - In the 1965 film âSignore e signoriâ (released in  the  U.S. as the Birds, the Bees and the Italians) by Italian  director Pietro  Germi, a Catholic priest gives assurances in his  sermon that âThe Church  doesn't get involved in politics,  but it urges you to vote for a party that  is both Democratic and  Christian.â
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In âThe Man of My Life,â the French director Zabou Breitman and her screenwriting partner AgnÃ¨s de Sacy examine male bonding from a feminine perspective.
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Reunited with Christopher Lee in Cowboys For Christ NSFW Fans of 1973 cult classic The Wicker Man will be delighted to learn that Britt Ekland and Christopher Lee are on board for a sequel to the virgin-roasting paganfest.â¦
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Esce venerdÃ¬ il remake di The wicker man, film di culto del 1973 maledetto e inquietante pieno di strani rituali pagani. Cage &egrave; il protagonista
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Heather Raffo's impassioned theatrical documentary gives voice to contemporary Iraqi women.
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Ariel Schulman is making a film about sex, violence, racism, teenage angst and also ballet, which to some sounds much more intimidating.
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âSilence of the Beesâ is an enlightening and emotionally exhausting âNatureâ report that will be shown Sunday night on PBS.
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The whimsical 'Lars and the Real Girl' presents a picture of life as it ought to be, rather than the way it is.
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For your inner entomologist: Insects that appear plucked from a future in which artificial intelligence has triumphed over the natural world.
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Contrary to what you may hear, the popular toy, now a movie, is not just a hit with guys. Girls like 'em, too.
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With a title like  "Smart People," a film placed in academia signals that its  characters might be too clever for their own good.
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A business course on cutthroat capitalism disguised as a slacker comedy: Thatâs the kindest way to describe Michael Lehmannâs âFlakes.â
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âThe Methodâ is a funny film that touches on a corporationâs responsibility to society, the price of ambition and the persistence of workplace sexism.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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The story is about a boy who lives in a cupboard (i.e. "in the closet").  His Aunt and Uncle are ashamed of him because his parents were quite eccentric (i.e. "flaming") and they are deeply concerned and afraid that he will turn out just like them.  On his 11th birthday (i.e. roughly at the onset of puberty), the boy discovers that he is actually a "wizard", different in both style and substance from normal people, or "muggles" (i.e. "breeders").  The boy is groomed into his new existence by a large, hairy bear of a man who shows Harry a hidden underground community of "wizards" living right under the noses of the general population (i.e. the gay subculture).  Harry's first trip to this subculture involves traveling through "Diagon Alley", a play on the word diagonally (i.e. not straight).
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John Patrick Shanley's play, which involves a clash of wills and generations between a nun and a priest, is tight, absorbing and expertly acted.