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Get Your Reps In: âNashvilleââs Dark Happy Birthday Rings Prophetic (opens the original)
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If Americaâs 250th birthday resembled little more than a stage for propagandistic, self-focused renditions of the current political moment, Robert Altmanâs Nashville felt the same damn way 51 years ago. With the bicentennial hovering in the air, an ensemble of singers, politicians, journalists, fans and weirdos descend on Nashville for a musical campaign rally that preaches populism but ends up a rat race of optics, violence, hedonism and hypocrisy. Case in point, Altmanâs acclaimed musica
Get Your Reps In: âOut of the Pastâ Caps Cinema 21âs Month of Noir (opens the original)
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Sometimes, it all comes together in a single year. 2018 for superhero films. 1964 for movie musicals. 1993 for Steven Spielberg. Cinema 21 programmer Elliot Levine pinpointed 1947 as that watershed year for film noir. In turn, the Northwest Portland theater has featured 1947 noirs like Nightmare Alley and Body and Soul every Saturday this month. On July 25, the series capper is Out of the Past, arguably the peak of the genre when it comes to mixing star power, Golden Age Hollywood repartee, and
Get Your Reps In: âPrince of Darknessâ Is More Than a John Carpenter B-Side (opens the original)
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Amid one of the hottest directing streaks in Hollywood history, John Carpenter paused in 1987 to ask, what if the devil was literally in the details? Prince of Darkness sneaks in the side door of peak satanic panic, positing that evil as a moral force is merely a construct to hide its eternal existence in microscopic antimatter. Or as theoretical physics professor Dr. Birack (Victor Wong) so succinctly puts it: âOur logic collapses on the subatomic level into ghosts and shadows.â His Ph.D. c
Get Your Reps In: Heath Ledger Still Shines in âA Knightâs Taleâ (opens the original)
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A Knightâs Tale isnât Heath Ledgerâs most accomplished performance (see: Brokeback Mountain), his most iconic (see: The Dark Knight) or most beloved (feel: 10 Things I Hate About You). Nonetheless, the 2001 medieval sports dramedy proved Ledger possessed the single skill all great movie stars mustâelevating the material. Playing a squire who cons and jousts his way into the upper crust of European sporting society, Ledger is charming, emotionally available, down to earth and generational
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