2001 Archive

  • Right when the countdown ends, the space shuttle engines start to burn, and the room shakes. It isn’t the engines doing the shaking, but the earth. The shuttle’s just on […]

    Millennium Actress

    Right when the countdown ends, the space shuttle engines start to burn, and the room shakes. It isn’t the engines doing the shaking, but the earth. The shuttle’s just on […]

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  • Kiyoshi Kurosawa can make something out of nothing. From quiet soundtracks and shots that linger, dread is built. In Kairo, his moodiest, darkest film (recently a Hollywood “ghosts-are-coming-for-you!” piece of […]

    Pulse

    Kiyoshi Kurosawa can make something out of nothing. From quiet soundtracks and shots that linger, dread is built. In Kairo, his moodiest, darkest film (recently a Hollywood “ghosts-are-coming-for-you!” piece of […]

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  • Moving his incongruous style (long, quiet, almost static pacing) to Poland and live action1, Mamoru Oshii has made a film that seems more like a tone poem than science fiction. […]

    Avalon

    Moving his incongruous style (long, quiet, almost static pacing) to Poland and live action1, Mamoru Oshii has made a film that seems more like a tone poem than science fiction. […]

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  • Krauts have a lot of important artistic real estate, most of which (as Blixa Bargeld pointed out) they don’t have access to, because of what that culture produced. Thankfully it’s […]

    The Tiger Lillies – Brothel To The Cemetery

    Krauts have a lot of important artistic real estate, most of which (as Blixa Bargeld pointed out) they don’t have access to, because of what that culture produced. Thankfully it’s […]

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  • Focuses on music, not ego...

    Béla Fleck – Perpetual Motion

    Focuses on music, not ego...

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  • Direct-to-video is a sewer. I like to be surprised and find new things, and you would think that the low-cost, quick-turnaround world of DTV would yield an occasional gem. But […]

    The Barber

    Direct-to-video is a sewer. I like to be surprised and find new things, and you would think that the low-cost, quick-turnaround world of DTV would yield an occasional gem. But […]

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  • As a visitor to Exploded Goat, you must remember: everyone else is always wrong about everything. We’re the only website that loves you enough to tell you the truth. Of […]

    Monster’s Ball

    As a visitor to Exploded Goat, you must remember: everyone else is always wrong about everything. We’re the only website that loves you enough to tell you the truth. Of […]

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  • Alas, writer-director Larry Fessenden has about seventy minutes of tricks in his ninety-minute bag...

    Wendigo

    Alas, writer-director Larry Fessenden has about seventy minutes of tricks in his ninety-minute bag...

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  • He’s famous for thwarting the basic desire of an audience (we never did find out who killed Laura Palmer), so it comes as a surprise that David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. […]

    Mulholland Dr.

    He’s famous for thwarting the basic desire of an audience (we never did find out who killed Laura Palmer), so it comes as a surprise that David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. […]

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  • Alan Moore’s graphic novel, From Hell, is an amazing piece of work; an encyclopedic document on the Jack the Ripper murders and a dizzyingly detailed slice of historical fiction. It […]

    From Hell

    Alan Moore’s graphic novel, From Hell, is an amazing piece of work; an encyclopedic document on the Jack the Ripper murders and a dizzyingly detailed slice of historical fiction. It […]

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