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So far Michael Lee has created 53 blog entries.

    Computer Chess

    Written & Directed by Andrew Bujalski
    Produced by Houston King & Alex Lipschultz
    Released by Kino Lorber
    USA. 92 min. Not rated
    With Patrick Riester, Wiley Wiggins, Myles Paige, Robin Schwartz & Gerald Peary
    If being unique and outside of the box were all that Computer Chess had going for it, it wouldn’t have been my favorite movie out of […]

      The Hunt

      Directed by Thomas Vinterberg
      Written by Vinterberg & Tobias Lindholm
      Produced by Morten Kaufmann & Sisse Graum Jorgensen
      Released by Magnolia Pictures
      Danish with English subtitles
      Denmark/Sweden. 111 min. Rated R
      With Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp, Lasse Fogelstrom, Susse Wold, Anne Louise Hassing, Lars Ranthe & Alexandra Rapaport
      Thomas Vinterberg’s latest is about as pessimistic as it gets. […]

      By |July 11th, 2013|Drama, Top Picks|0 Comments

        An Oversimplification of Her Beauty

        Music, Art Direction, Animation Direction, Edited, Written & Directed by Terence Nance
        Produced by James Bartlett, Andrew D. Corkin & Nance
        Released by Variance Films
        USA. 84 min. Not rated
        With Terence Nance & Namik Minter

        The tender opening credits appear as hand drawn overlays over a beautiful sequence shot in the tunnels of the New York City subway. The […]

        By |June 6th, 2013|Animated, Indie, Top Picks|0 Comments

          Spring Breakers

          Written & Directed by Harmony Korine
          Produced by Chris Hanley, Jordan Gertner, David Zander & Charles-Marie Anthonioz
          Released by A24
          USA. 94 min. Rated R
          With Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine, James Franco & Gucci Mane
          A quartet of not-so-innocent undergraduates plans a much-desired sojourn away from their uninspired middle-American liberal arts campus, all the way down […]

          By |March 15th, 2013|American, Satire, Top Picks|0 Comments

            Like Someone in Love

            Written & Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
            Produced by Marin Karmitz & Kenzo Horikoshi
            Released by Sundance Selects
            Japanese with English subtitles
            France/Japan. 109 min. Not rated
            With Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno & Ryo Kase
            Abbas Kiarostami’s follow up to his tremendous Certified Copy could be considered its companion piece. Again, he’s working outside of his native Iran, this time forgoing […]

            By |February 19th, 2013|Asian, Drama, Foreign, Top Picks|0 Comments

              Sundance Film Festival 2013

              Blue skies ruled the week in Park City this year, where an unfathomable crowd once again flocked to the little resort town in search of distribution deals, corporate swag, networking opportunities, and as many exciting movie experiences as they could find. Those in search of deals were reportedly not disappointed. This was a banner year […]

              By |January 31st, 2013|GLBT, Sundance Film Festival|0 Comments

                Teddy Bear

                Directed by Mads Matthiesen
                Produced by Morten Kjems Juhl
                Written by Matthiesen & Martin Zandvliet; director of photography, Laust Trier Mork; edited by Adam Nielsen
                Released by Film Movement
                Danish, English & Thai with English subtitles.
                Denmark. 93 min. Not rated
                With Kim Kold, Elsebeth Steentoft, Lamaiporn Sangmanee Hougaard, Allan Mogensen, David Winters, Sukunya Mongkol & Jonathan Winters
                Following up on his […]

                By |January 25th, 2013|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Foreign|0 Comments

                  Fairhaven

                  Written & Directed by Tom O’Brien, based on a story by O’Brien & Chris Messina
                  Produced by Massoumeh Emami
                  USA. 81 min. Not rated
                  With Chris Messina, Rich Sommer, Tom O’Brien, Sarah Paulson, Alexie Gilmore, Natalie Gold, Alicia Racine, Maryann Plunkett & Phyllis Kay
                  Long gone are the days when Fairhaven, Massachusetts inspired epic tales of adventure on the […]

                  By |January 11th, 2013|Drama, Top Picks|0 Comments

                    Lincoln

                    Directed by Steven Spielberg
                    Produced by Spielberg & Kathleen Kennedy
                    Written by Tony Kushner, based on the book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
                    Released by DreamWorks Pictures/20th Century Fox
                    USA. 145 min. Rated PG-13
                    With Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gulliver McGrath, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Tommy Lee Jones, […]

                    By |November 9th, 2012|Biopic, Top Picks|0 Comments