Boxing Helena (1993)

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10 Worst Sundance Sensations
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"Getting ready for the Sundance Film Festival can be very exciting. As we await the event’s Thursday opening, we can’t stop wondering what will be the next big thing. Will this year’s hit be the highly-anticipated Michael Cera project Paper Hearts, or will it be something that we as of yet know nothing about? It’s easy to forget, however, that oftentimes the next big thing is also the next lamest thing. Sundance sensations, those films that are much-buzzed-about, that sell for a lot of money, that go on to be marketed like crazy and ultimately receive Oscar recognition, tend to lend themselves most easily to backlashes. Usually such derision is deserved, as in the case of the following ten films, each of which made a big splash at Sundance despite being bad. 10. Brick (Ria " [More]

Surveillance Review, Fantastic ...
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"It’s been 15 years since Jennifer Lynch directed Boxing Helena, and the intervening years have seemingly cooled her directorial genes, because Surveillance is much easier to swallow, although the subject matter is still upsetting to the stomach. The film takes an interesting premise and manages it to cram it through a meat grinder until you’re left with something that you wouldn’t really want to eat in the first place. Rather than the commentary on surveillance that the film starts to establish in the beginning, you’re left with what feels like an homage to Natural Born Killers. Surveillance takes place inside three different interrogation rooms (actually meeting rooms and supply closets that have been appropriated for use) inside a very small town’s police station. Two FBI agents, Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond arrive on the scene following a brutal multiple homicide, and set up three video cameras inside the room to record separate eyewitness events. Most of the film is told in f ... " [More]

FilmCouch #51
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"Navigating the jungle of lists for Top 10 Movies of 2007 to find any importance behind a cultural tradition of reflecting on the year in cinema and distilling it down to ten movies. Karina introduces her Boxing Helena Award for a truly brilliant scene that should be amputated from an otherwise lackluster movie. The award is named after Boxing Helena (1993) starring Sherilyn Finn (see above). *Happy Birthday to FilmCouch! We’re one. Boxing Helena Award winners Atonement Southland Tales Michael Clayton Into the Wild Seraphim Falls FilmCouch 51 (Subscribe to F " [More]

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strange but beautiful
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"being in the presence of this movie is a one of a kind expierence, julian sands makes you feel lost and lonley and afraid, the symbolic cutting off of helena's legs, then arms, showing how he wants this woman so badly that he would do anything to have her, to keep her, and through this ride of sexual awaking, the little boy nick grows up. It's a beautiful movie, a little perverse some would say, but those people need to watch closer, maybe they will learn something, take an hour and watch it!!! You won't be dissapointed. " [More]

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