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Welcome to the Dollhouse (1996)
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"This blog entry is part of my "movie year countdown round #2". Read more about that here. The Kid Right up front I'll state that I tend to have an aversion to precocious kids in films. As an example, my stock answer for my least favorite movie ever is I Am Sam. It's hard for me to say why, and maybe it's a fault of my own character. I feel much more sympathetic to pathetic and somewhat dimwitted children like the kid in Bad Santa or Dawn Wiener in Welcome to the Dollhouse. In fact I think I've stated this precisely before in another blog, but I keep finding myself pointing it out. But it's actually really difficult to dislike Jackie Coogan in this film. He is adorable and talented. But I can't help but feel like my predilection here mig "
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Sundance Stories of Yore: Pi
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"Each day this week, Christopher Campbell will take a look back at a “classic” film that played the Sundance Film Festival. Today’s installment: Darren Aronofsky’s Pi (1998). Today’s story is a little shorter than the rest in this series, but it’s worth remembering because it involves another instance where one Sundance success directly resulted in the making of a later Sundance success (a la Slacker leading to Clerks). The earlier film in this case was Welcome to the Dollhouse, which Darren Aronofsky saw at the 1996 festival. In Peter Biskind’s book Down and Dirty Pictures, Aronfsky comments on the experience: “I thought it was such a unique, weird film, that it really gave me the courage to go back to New York and just try to throw something together.” That November he was in production on Pi. A little over a year later, the stylish black and white Pi premiered at "
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"This blog entry is part of my "movie year countdown round #2". Read more about that here. Shane Shane is a legendary name in the history of Westerns, so I had to see it. It took me a while to get into it though. Jean Arthur bored me here actually and I usually get annoyed by prominent kids in movie like this sometimes. Maybe I just don't like kids and this is my personal issue. But I get annoyed with sweet and precocious kids in films. I'm actually more amused and even empathetic to kids in movies that are more dim and pathetic. Take the fat kid in Bad Santa or any of the kids in Welcome to the Dollhouse for instance. Anyways I know this was a totally different kind of movie from a different era, but I just wanted to express that. Shane became more interesting to me as it went along. I was glad when Elisha Cook Jr. show "
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"The third indie feature of the quartet at the top of my Netflix queue was available instantly and is one of those films that I found out about through my two years plus activity on Spout. Up until some group discussion or blog or list exposed me to it, I had never heard of Welcome to the Dollhouse, but when I read about it and saw it available on Netflix, I queued it up because I'm all about the lonely loser genre. Perhaps, I like these types of films because at least a germ of this archetypal character appeals to me, since I recognize some of myself in the type. And, of course, because these characters are so resonant and relatable, I always hope that such a character will find their redemption by the end of the film in a way that would leave me hopeful – not so much in terms of sudden fashion awareness or a fabulous and life-changing makeover or something that alters the character's physical appearance. Instead, I hope that the character in question--like Dawn Wiener in ... "
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"On Saturday, Brooklyn, NY-based filmmaker Leah Meyerhoff will be heading to Beantown to present a retrospective of her short films at the Brattle Theatre during the Boston Underground Film Festival. I had the great pleasure to hang out with Leah recently during the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival in Austin, Texas. I first became familiar with Leah’s work at a screening of short films at the Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series last year where I saw the music video she directed, Team Queen. Soon after, I watched her Student Academy-Award nominated short Twitch, which has played in over 200 film festivals around the world and won numerous awards. Last night, I spoke with Leah about her upcoming trip to Boston and what people can expect there, as well as what’s going on with her feature film in development, Unicorns, and other defining moments in her young career.
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"This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown”. To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entryWelcome to the DollhouseThis is the second movie year countdown movie in a row that was suggested to me by Andy. However I already had my eye on this movie since I had thoroughly enjoyed Todd Solondz's Happiness. However my eye was on one of his other movies before this one. Something about the fact that the main character was an adolescent girl made me think i just wouldn't connect. I was way wrong.I watched this one with Adam who said something like, "this movie is like Napoleon Dynamite if it were more realistic and more funny." He might have also said something about and if it were a lot more sad and painful to watch too, but that might have been implied. Of course Welcome to the Dollhouse came out almost ten years before Napoleon Dynamite too.I find this m "
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Geek Prince : THE MUDGE BOY
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"Duncan Mudge is the town joke. 14 years old, he rides around on his bike, running errands with his familiar, a white hen he calls “chicken.” Half the time he seems to be in a trance, the other half he lacks the judgment to keep his more peculiar thoughts to himself. His mother has died suddenly and Duncan has shifted into the realm where terrible loss either blinds us to the appropriate world or pushes us past caring. He has a kind of accidental, naive nobility. Duncan (The Mudge Boy) needs what he needs and never pretends otherwise. He doesn’t even know it’s not okay to ask. And writer/director Michael Burke doesn’t make him a quaint human rabbit, like say, Raymond Babbitt in Rain Man or Chance the Gardener in Being There. Emile Hirsch jumps into the role with both feet and there are times when he positively seems to have flown in from Planet Neptune. Hirsch’s performance becomes all the more impressive as Duncan begins to grow on us, despite hi ... "
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"Here’s the dilemma. I have a list of well over three thousand movies I want to see saved on IMDB. I have a subscription to Netflix and recently every time I return a DVD it has been an extremely arduous task to make the decision as to which movie I should see next. In an effort to narrow down my choices and make the process of choosing slightly less overwhelming I have devised a system, almost a bit of a game for me. Here’s how it goes.For my first film selection, I have narrowed the options down to only films that were released in the year 2006. Then after I have watched that movie, my next selection would have to be a film released in 2005. Then I would see a film from 2004, then 2003, etc. The process of deciding is still laborious, but actually quite a bit more exciting. (I'm going by IMDB as my source for release years)I have already been making a list and have also already begun watching the films. I decided this might be a good time to start fooling ... "
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"My childhood pretty much took place in The Apostle. Junior High was eerily reminiscent of Welcome to the Dollhouse. My ideal image of High School is The Breakfast Club, but the reality was more like Elephant (before the killing starts). I think my college years were reminiscent of All the Real Girls. I know, none of those guys were in college but—when you consider how much time I spent with my girlfriend—neither was I. I'd say I currently feel most at home in a film I just saw, The Talent Given Us.But what I'd really like to be is a companion white-guy to Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves. Not that I want to spend time with Costner, but I love how Kicking Bird describes his journey as "the path to be an authentic human." "
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