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Tropic Sprockets: Cry Macho
Director Clint Eastwood, a cinema hero who is deeply embedded in our popular culture, helms “Cry Macho,” a cowboy tale of sorts. Though it has elements of sentimentality, it is irrepressibly warm, engaging and humorous.
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Front Row at the Movies: Cry Macho
The title sums up Clint Eastwood’s movie career – “Cry Macho.” Whether intended or not, it calls to mind the poncho-wearing Man With No Name in those classic spaghetti westerns and the flinty-eyed policeman saying, “Make my day!”
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Tropic Sprockets: The Lost Leonardo
“The Lost Leonardo” is a painterly thriller of the cat and mouse kind. It is as much a meditation of desire, money and the power of belief, as it is about the hand of Da Vinci and two supernaturally revolving fingers.
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Tropic Sprockets: The Card Counter
The film ticks off the trademarks of the iconic director Paul Schrader: self-loathing, asceticism and suffering are all here once more. But Schrader has an immediacy and flair combined with a strange percussive melancholy that makes him infinitely watchable.
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Front Row at the Movies: The Card Counter
Dressed in a snug leather jacket over a shirt and tie, dark hair slicked back and streaked with gray, William Tell is a man trying to project an image of control. But – you guessed it – an inner torment is gnawing away at him. He clearly exists in a limbo between sin and salvation.
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Tropic Sprockets: Summertime
“Summertime” by director Carlos Lopez Estrada is a portrait of Los Angeles as described in spoken word poetry. It is colorful, exuberant, and affectionate and creates a roiling, rolling verbal city with its own flavor, reminiscent of “In the Heights.”
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Tropic Sprockets: Cryptozoo
While its counter-culture narrative feels more conventional than the visual design, “Cryptozoo” with its nonchalant deadpan humor and eccentricity, deserves a place among the cult films “Heavy Metal” and “Yellow Submarine.”
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Front Row at the Movies: Respect
Songstress Aretha Franklin – known to the world as the Queen of Soul – hand-picked Jennifer Hudson to portray her in the new movie titled “Respect" -- and Hudson’s starring performance absolutely commands respect. It’s worth the ticket price for the music alone.
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Tropic Sprockets: Swan Song
“Swan Song” underscores the human, grounded, and fragile spirit behind a performer who many see only as a theatrical florid persona. In this film, it is just as authentic to be subtle as it is to be sensational.
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Tropic Sprockets: Respect
In the body of Hudson, here is the woman with eyes that lean into a smile. Here is the sound-painter with the leaping voice that brought gospel into the blues and jazz into Jesus, all the better to fight demons.
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