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Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
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"The holidays are coming, and that either means spending time with your dysfunctional family or escaping them for the movies … where you’re likely to be met by other, fictional dysfunctional families. Already this season, Rachel Getting Married introduced us to the f’ed up faux masala of the Buchman clan, and later this month we get to follow Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon as they’re pulled into their separate quadrants of kin in Four Christmases. Also, for those who think dysfunction is an American tradition, this weekend sees the release of the French film A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël), which unites the two major premises of dysfunctional family movies by being set during the holidays and involving an ill family member. With two more weeks left until Thanksgiving, after which we might not want to think about another family, real or cinematic, for "
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"Capturing the Friedmans is the kind of movie that makes you hate life. You want a genie to appear out of a bottle and tell you what the truth is and what the hell is going on. After watching for two hours, I wasnt sure whether the protagonist was an innocent kid who had his youth wrongfully stolen from him and his reputation stained forever, or evil monster who deserves to be in prison for life. The movie is a documentary about the destruction of a family in Great Neck, New York, after the father and youngest son are arrested for heinous crimes in 1987. Arnold Friedman was a well liked and award winning teacher in the community, until he was caught buying child pornography in a police sting. The police noted that he gave private piano and computer lessons at his home. After interviewing children in the computer class, they arrested Arnold and his 18-year old son Jesse, as the children reported that they molested and raped dozens of them. But the film then takes a very weird turn. D ... "
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"The Oscar nominations have been announced, and because we all need to complain about at least one thing every year, let my gripe be with the Jonny Greenwood snub (apparently his score was disqualified). Karina will be sharing her own analysis later today. Stay tuned. It’s been a serious topic that Sundance isn’t the buying frenzy we all thought it would be. But when distributors talk about a filmmaker needing to pay them, it’s really a bad time for the festival.
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"Originally posted 8/13/06 on SpoutBlog.com51 Birch Street is a documentary of a filmmaker, Doug Block, going down the slippery slope of revisiting his parents' marriage after his mom's death. It was an inadvertent project. Like Capturing the Friedmans, most of the footage was shot as home video without any inkling it would become scenes of a story. The film is dense and introspective. It demands you to either look closely at your own relationships or tune out. As a married man, I don't think I could tune it out. In a way, having the opportunity to look at a marriage this way is like a wish come true. It's an examination of a couple at the end of life--not an examination of what this marriage was supposed to be, but what it was: prickly, difficult, boring, estranged, warm, loving, limited, broken and, on some level, successful. Early in the film, the image of marriage is mentioned. Doug's mom and dad--and most of their friends--got married with the sense that life would be like the ... "
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