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Tropic Sprockets: Queer
Craig hits all the right notes here, oscillating from eerie observation to frightening panic leading to a kind of pre-natal state of inaction. One feels the frisson of an addict, its sudden hijinks as well as a mercurial menace.
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Front Row at the Movies: Elf
Don’t overlook these monthly Movies Under the Stars. They’re one of the best things for Key West moviegoers since Atlantic Shores closed down. So get out your blanket and folding chair. “Elf” will put you in the Christmas spirit, f’sure.
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Tropic Sprockets: Let’s Get Lost
The most affecting segments of the documentary echo Wim Wenders’ “Wings of Desire.” Baker has the grit of Purgatory in the corners of his gray eyes. His trumpet carries the vocabulary of space at its most fleeting, the music of ravens and grackles at sunrise.
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Tropic Sprockets: Flow
The Latvian auteur Gints Zilbalodis ("Away") executes another beautifully rendered animated film in “Flow,” a stirring, affectionate, and dynamic film that has the intensity of “Watership Down.” Colorful and engaging, this film clearly underscores the drama of the natural world.
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Front Row at the Movies: Let’s Get Lost
If you are a jazz aficionado, you won’t want to miss “Let’s Get Lost,” a documentary about the late Chet Baker.
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Tropic Sprockets: Dahomey
Mati Diop ("Atlantics") delivers a masterful affecting documentary in “Dahomey,” about the theft and rightful place of Benin artifacts—poignant, haunting, and immersive. It draws one in like a matinee suspense tale even without the famed fictional archaeologist Indiana Jones.
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Tropic Sprockets: De Palma
This film is not only a fine study in film production, but it is also a prismatic pop art portrait of Brian De Palma the man, as an existential worrier and warrior, keenly able to adapt.
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Tropic Sprockets: Maria
A solid conclusion to Larrain’s trilogy, which featured powerful women blighted by their own self-created ghosts who all had to journey to Pop Art Hell in order to reclaim their very human and very fragile mortal selves.
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Front Row at the Movies: Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
Three generations of an Italian-American family descend on their ancestral home in Long Island for what many realize could be their final time. Serious, yes. Funny, yes. Nostalgic, yes.
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Tropic Sprockets: Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
The tone of the film is like a Robert Crumb cartoon as if handled by Martin Scorsese. What it does quite well is capture the sadness and strange melancholy that Christmas can sometimes possess.
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