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  • The world of vintage video game players

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    I saw this one at the AFI Dallas festival.  A documentary about people who are very serious about playing vintage video games.  What makes it really interesting is the contrast between the record-holder in Donkey Kong and the new challenger.  The guy who got the highest score ever in back in the eighties and has help it ever since is a controlling, preening type of guy who seems to think it’s still 1982.  The challenger is much more sympathetic, although he, too, is quite obsessive.  A good film and a crowd-pleaser.

  • A very good film

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    The Good Life  (2006)

    I saw this one at the AFI Dallas festival..The story of a young guy who has a very bad family environment, a medical condition and an attitude toward football, all of which serve to alienate him from his surroundings.  He works at a gas station and helps out at an old movie theater.  He tries to keep the bills paid at home, where he lives with his mother, but he doesn’t always succeed.  Stephen Berra, a pro skateboarder writes and directs, and from what he said after the movie, you’ll be seeing more of his work.  Mark Webber (Jesus’ Son, Broken Flowers) stars with Zooey Deschanel (Trillian in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) Harry Dean Stanton and Bill Paxton.  Webber is very real and sympathetic and Zooey does a good job as the almost angelic and quite strange Frances.  A moving, intimate film.

 

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