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Get the latest news about what's going on at the Tropic, plus movie reviews from our in-house critics, Shirrel Rhoades and Ian Brockway. You’ll also find reviews from film festivals and advance screening movies. Want to make sure you never miss a thing? Follow the Tropic on Facebook for daily updates!
Tropic Sprockets: Freud’s Last Session
Freud is incredulous regarding Lewis’s Christian beliefs and Lewis is equally mystified by Freud. To the psychiatrist, Christianity is a medley of fairy tales. Lewis feels religion gives a man wonder, purpose, and security.
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Front Row at the Movies: The Color Purple
“Alice Walker visited us on the set and asked to see what we had been shooting. After showing her a take, I heard this loud sobbing and felt hands hugging me from behind. She laid her head on me and kept saying the same thing over again: ‘This is what I always hoped it would be.’”
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Tropic Sprockets: The Color Purple
While one definitely needs to bring Kleenex, one would also do well with some steady cinema dancing shoes, because the lasting emotion that carries you away is one of delight.
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Tropic Sprockets: Make Me Famous
On the fringes of Warhol and Basquiat, Edward Brezinski hungered for fame, but he refused to engage in social stratifications or niceties. He abhorred showy displays of wealth. What emerges is a stirring and heartfelt story of a hapless yet talented creative man driven to paint.
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Front Row at the Movies: Make Me Famous
Along with archive footage of artist Edward Brezinski and his circle, “Make Me Famous” presents an array of compelling participants in “this last flowering of bohemia in the grubby, pungent glamour of New York’s dirt-cheap Lower East Side.”
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Tropic Sprockets: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The noise may rattle some eardrums, but the film boasts a who’s who of Hollywood comedians, great cinematography by Ernest Lazslo, and some genuine madcap behavior by its stars, not to mention a wonderful title sequence by Saul Bass of Hitchcock fame.
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Tropic Sprockets: Fallen Leaves
From Aki Kaurismäki, “Fallen Leaves” is a still life study in melancholia—eerie and dreary to the point of sardonic black humor, elevated by the subtle and understated performances given by Jussi Vatanen and Alma Pöysti in the lead roles.
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Tropic Sprockets: Tarpon/All That is Sacred
In the early 1970s, there was a time when Key West had a cornucopia of motley characters. “Tarpon” captures the period when Duval Street only had a few souvenir shops, and the sunny landscape of the far-off island was sleepy and flat. The film is a perfect time capsule, but it is not without horror.
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Oscar Season is Here!
Let’s get the conversation going; it's a great cinema year, and its going to be a truly great party night at the Tropic. So hold that date. March 10. Have your speech ready!
READ MORETropic Sprockets: The Iron Claw
Each brotherly portrait is heartrending, and the events unfold with a sense of terrible predetermination as depicted in an Ari Aster family drama or possession.
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