RE: [Pen-l] Late Bloomer; Spinning into Butter

["Max B. Sawicky" <sawicky@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually the last Batman movie was pretty good.



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Subject: [Pen-l] Late Bloomer; Spinning into Butter

Although they are far apart stylistically, both "Late Bloomer" and 
"Spinning into Butter" deal with social pariahs. The first movie, now 
available from Netflix, is a low-budget Japanese shocker about a 
severely disabled man, played by just such a person, who becomes a 
serial killer. When the publicist wrote me about the DVD screener 
becoming available, I said "Great, send it along. It has to be better 
than the latest idiotic Batman movie". The other movie is far more 
conventional and deals with racial incidents at Belmont, a snooty 
private college in Vermont. It opens at the Landmark Sunshine Theater
in 
New York on March 27th, as well as Washington and Los Angeles. While 
there are major flaws in "Spinning into Butter", I can recommend it as
a 
serious attempt to deal with liberal racism at a school with an 
administration almost as boneheaded as my employer, Columbia
University.

full: 
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/late-bloomer-spinning-int
o-butter/
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