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		<title>Cameraman (2010) ** / A Serbian Film (2010) ***</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More Slant reviews! One documentary and one transgressive film that I liked quite a bit. As a proud Powell and Pressburger completist, my chief complaint regarding Craig McCall&#8217;s 12-years-in-the-making documentary Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff is that we&#8217;ve seen the best material here before. Essentially an expanded version of McCall&#8217;s featurette &#8220;Painting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aspiringsellout.com/2011/05/cameraman-2010-a-serbian-film-2010/</link>
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		<title>Something Wild (1986) ***1/2 &#8212; DVD Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At Slant. &#8230;Few directors, however, have tackled social and personal shape-shifting as concretely or as intuitively as Jonathan Demme. Throughout his diverse yet unified oeuvre, characters are uncannily aware of what makes them tick, to the point that exposition is occasionally bypassed altogether. Something Wild, one of his best films, stylizes this strength of personality a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aspiringsellout.com/2011/05/something-wild-1986-dvd-review/</link>
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		<title>Cronos (1993) ***</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guillermo del Toro&#8217;s human themes are so simple that they&#8217;re often mistaken for clumsy. Old men pine for their lost virulence and attempt desperately to stave off their imminent expiration. As children transition from innocence to experience they learn to prize their personal resilience above earthly rewards. Much like the poet William Blake, del Toro [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aspiringsellout.com/2011/04/cronos-1993/</link>
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		<title>Bob&#8217;s Burgers (2011) *** &#8211; TV Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Half of Home Movies&#8216; Coach McGuirk is alive and well and living it up on this show. Read on. The aforementioned Loren Bouchard created and developed Bob&#8217;s Burgers with King of the Hill alumnus Jim Dauterive; for both writers, environments and relationships preclude premise and storytelling. So unsurprisingly, I&#8217;ve encountered—and sympathized with—fans of FOX&#8217;s Sunday-night [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aspiringsellout.com/2011/04/bobs-burgers-2011-tv-review/</link>
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		<title>The Mikado (1939) *** &#8211; DVD Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This went up on Slant earlier this week, but I neglected to post it amid personal life turbulence. Whatever else can be said, Gilbert and Sullivan make for quite &#8220;creative&#8221; break-up music.  Excerpt: &#8230;It&#8217;s this, and the striking modernity of the gags, that have preserved The Mikado&#8216;s glory in spite of its now-esoteric satirical content. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aspiringsellout.com/2011/03/the-mikado-1939-dvd-review/</link>
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		<title>Small Source of Comfort (2011) *** out of five</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yep, my first piece at Slant in almost a month is a less-than-polished music review (even the tagline I chose is grammatically incorrect! Grrrrrr!). Still, I quite like Bruce Cockburn in spite of (or perhaps because of, perversely?) who he tends to appeal to in the states; and if nothing else, he&#8217;s fine evidence by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aspiringsellout.com/2011/03/small-source-of-comfort-2011/</link>
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		<title>Viewing Log #2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;more seeings&#8230; WHAT HAPPENED WAS (1994, Tom Noonan). Like his very occasional collaborator Wallace Shawn, Noonan writes characters that reveal their hidden ferocity to one another by tedious degrees. But Noonan&#8217;s got a sense of cultural despondency that eludes Shawn, even at his most fervidly futile (The Fever) &#8212; in What Happened Was, Noonan&#8217;s directorial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aspiringsellout.com/2011/03/viewing-log-2/</link>
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		<title>The Critics (2011) @ the Siskel Center in Chicago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A piece on local filmmaker Jim Sikora&#8217;s The Critics, mostly worth reading for some film journalism doomsday language. Excerpt: Adapted from a scathingly self-reflective stage play by novelist and former Chicago Reader staff writer Adam Langer, The Critics is an icily witty exercise in Windy City rancor. Structured petulantly around the proving of the titular characters&#8217; static [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aspiringsellout.com/2011/02/the-critics-2011-the-siskel-center-in-chicago/</link>
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		<title>Ip Man 2 (2010) *** / When We Leave (2010) **</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some Slant reviews from last week. Excerpt: Picking up roughly a decade after the bleak if preposterous Pacific War milieu of Ip Man, director Wilson Yip&#8217;s sequel follows the titular Wing Chun master as he attempts to set up shop anew amid the ever-splintering martial arts traditions of British-occupied Hong Kong. After a brief, desaturated recap [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aspiringsellout.com/2011/02/ip-man-2-2010-when-we-leave-2010/</link>
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		<title>Johnny Mad Dog (2008) ***</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Excerpt: Perhaps the mind-boggling tardiness of the United Nations, who didn&#8217;t even acknowledge the military use of youths until 1999, isn&#8217;t quite as damnable as it appears: Independent of its humanitarian implications, the ubiquity of child armies is a philosophical nightmare. Granted, there&#8217;s something quite cosmic about them, and about the notion that man&#8217;s aggression [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aspiringsellout.com/2011/01/johnny-mad-dog-2008/</link>
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