Entries from August 2005

SHORT TAKE: “Grizzly Man” (**1/2)

Posted by · 8:09 pm · August 30th, 2005

Werner Herzog’s “Grizzly Man” is an amazingly rich film, and an indefinably important one for those who have a vested interest in artistic showcases of man’s position in his natural world. That Herzog, a madman in his own right, would be drawn to the life and times of Timothy Treadwell is hardly surprising, but what […]

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Not a moment too soon

Posted by · 2:37 pm · August 19th, 2005

Welcome to In Contention. Oscar season is breathing down our necks yet again and here I am, finally in Los Angeles, and not a peep out of me yet. I had planned on ducking out of the Oscar race entirely this season for various reasons, but recent activity has caused me to dip my pen […]

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