last week I VOTED IN FOUR DIFFERENT CRITICS POLLS .... FUNNY HOW EACH BALLOT WAS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT

HERE IS THE fILM COMMENT BALLOT

Reel Deal : Movies that Matter.

RANKED

1: American Hustle

2; Dirty Wars

3 Museum Hours

4 The Attack

5 The Square

6 The Counselor

7 The Past

8 The Great Beauty

9 Omar

10 Her

11 Dallas Buyers Club

12 A Touch Of Sin

13 The Broken Circle Breakdown

14 Fruitvale Station

15 Mother Of George

16 Short Term 12

17 The Butler

18 in the Name of

19 Lone Survivor

20 Nebraska

Undistributed Gems

1: Oxyana

2: Policeman P

3:Costa da Morte

4; REMOTE AREA MEDICAL

5 : Peaches Does Herse

6: Soldate Jeannette

7: Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

8: Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booke

9: We Always Lie To Strangers

10 Odayalca

11: Bridegroom

12 Before You Know It (g)

13 Mr. Angel (G)

14 Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

15 Citizen Koch

16 Teenage

17 Google and the World Brain

18 Revenge of the Mekons

19 The Pleasures of Being Out of Step

20: Elaine Stritch : So Shoot Me

WHY CAPTAIN PHILLIPS IS A MORE PLEASURABLE FILM THAN SANDRA BULLOCK'S SHEENA IN THE 21ST CENTURY'S SPACE WALK AND GRAVITY PLUNGE

WHY CAPTAIN PHILLIPS IS A MORE PLEASURABLE FILM THAN SANDRA BULLOCK'S SHEENA IN THE 21ST CENTURY'S SPACE WALK AND GRAVITY PLUNGE (as crafted as it is). Unless of course if you found some old Owsley acid stored in your mother"s stored away " do not touch box " than take it and do plunge with her into IMAX heaven.

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A friend in LA (actor/teacher Sally Kirkland) who was in my class with Lee Strasberg many years ago asked "Should I see Captain Phillips ?" Well I will say the same thing to her that i will say to you : "it will have you on the seat of the pants throughout. Barkhad Abdi, 

the Somali lead actor's performance is breathtaking and nomination deserving. Hanks reminds us of what we almost forgot. He is a superb actor when given a role and a script and and a director that challenges him. He more than rise to the task. Director Greengrass has always managed to foreground human conflict against a background of geo-political storytelling. He makes Captain Phillips a larger than life hero who would be willing to sacrifice his life by getting into a life boat with the hijackers and leaving his crew safe and alone on the ship. The only sour note appears very near the end. Another glorification of the Navy Seals, our government's Al-Qaeda targeted killers- for-hire . At SUNDANCE 2013 TWO important documentaries told very different stories about the Navy Seals. DIRTY WARS

reveals the truth behind the Navy Seal media spin that was most recently seen in the HBO documentary MANHUNT about  the CIA/women agents/seals ossama 

And now there is the "controversy" ablaze about the accuracy of the portrayal of Tom Hanks character. Captain Phillips is a NARRATIVE film not a documentary. Narrative films can make their own reality and Greengrass does in this does in this his narrative “docudrama.” Captain Phillips is storytelling at the highest popular culture level. Beautifully written and crafted,expertly paced, edited and acted. Now the hungry money vultures -like litigants are circling in a swarm over this critically acclaimed storytelling yelling 'Fire in the house of truth". Read how  Greengrass  appropriately answers the anonymously posted attacks on his creative integrity.

director paul Greengrass responds to captain phillips naccuracy-claims/

Captain Phillips trailer