Revisionist History

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These are reviews in which I’m either re-evaluating a movie that I had seen long before, a film with a big reputation, or thought of as a classic, an interesting remake or adaptation, or a movie that actually deals with trying to change history.

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The Adjustment Bureau

Black Swan vs. Black Swan: Revisionist History Vol. 2, A Screener’s Revenge

Brazil

Catfish

Cruising

Dare

Dirty Harry vs. The French Connection: The Fascist Cop Movies of 1971

A Film Unfinished

Forgotten Silver

The Informant!

Inglourious Basterds

Lisztomania

Lookin’ to Get Out vs. Lookin’ to Get Out: Revisionist History Vol. 1

Once Upon a Time in America vs. Phantasm IV: Oblivion

Outrage

Rip Into That All Time Classic

Silent Running

Source Code

The Social Network

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

True Grit (2010)

Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

Wild at Heart

Willard (2003)

Now on DVD and Blu-Ray

Roadracers

By Adam Lippe

Whenever there’s a genre parody or ode to a specific era of films, such as Black Dynamite’s mocking of Blaxploitation films or Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, the second half of Grindhouse, the danger is that the film might fall into the trap of either being condescending without any particular insight, or so faithful that it becomes the very flawed thing it is emulating.

Black Dynamite has nothing new to say about Blaxploitation films, it just does a decent job of copying what an inept [...]

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On Cold Fish:

Though the 16 year old me described the 1994 weepie Angie, starring Geena Davis as a Brooklyn mother raising her new baby alone, as “maudlin and melodramatic,” Roger Ebert, during his TV review, referring to the multitude of soap-operaish problems piling up on the titular character, suggested that it was only in Hollywood where Angie would get a happy ending. “If they made this movie in France, Angie would have shot herself.”

Well Cold Fish was made in Japan, where Angie would have shot herself and that would have been the happy ending.