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		<title>Moneyball (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2012/moneyball-before</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[

As an underdog tale of courage and risk-taking, Moneyball succeeds very well. Even more, it succeeds as an exploration of loyalty and self-interest. Being set in the &#8220;national pastime&#8221; world of baseball lends the film some popular intrigue, and being loosely based on true events lends it a measure of power (you don&#8217;t really have [...] (released: 2011) ]]></description>
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		<title>Hugo (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2012/hugo-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2012/hugo-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[

Have you thought of the world as a machine? For me, the question carries connotations of a cold, heartless world of isolation and exploitation. Embedded within Hugo&#8217;s exploration of other matters of the heart, the film uniquely explores &#8220;machine nature&#8221; from different angles, finding there a surprising amount of warmth and care. But I get [...] (released: 2011) ]]></description>
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		<title>Midnight in Paris (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2012/midnight-in-paris-before</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[

As is Woody Allen&#8217;s tendency with his films, the delightful Midnight in Paris is definitely about something. This time it&#8217;s nostalgia. Also like many of his films, which lean heavily toward having characters tell you what the film is about, so does this one &#8212; but somehow, it doesn&#8217;t come off as overbearing as usual. [...] (released: 2011) ]]></description>
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		<title>Extremely Loud &amp; Incredibly Close (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2012/extremely-loud-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2012/extremely-loud-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[

A father&#8217;s unique and creative care for his son, which is at the center of Extremely Loud &#038; Incredibly Close, carries profound power of hope and healing &#8212; even when the father can&#8217;t be there. The film embodies this power strongly in its intertwining of timelines, its pacing, and especially in the lead character&#8217;s acting.






Oskar [...] (released: 2011) ]]></description>
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		<title>War Horse (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2012/war-horse-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2012/war-horse-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[

About the story in War Horse, a strict realist would say, &#8220;Yeah, right. How likely is that?&#8221; I hold to the old adage &#8220;truth is stranger than fiction&#8221; &#8212; or even Jack Johnson&#8217;s &#8220;fact and fiction work as a team.&#8221; But, I do have reservations about the filmcraft in War Horse. Its serendipitous, mildy fantastical [...] (released: 2011) ]]></description>
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		<title>The Artist (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2012/artist-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2012/artist-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[

The Artist is a silent film like few others &#8212; perhaps unlike any other. Simultaneously staying true to the genre and playing with it, director Michel Hazanavicius creatively employs silent film as one element of great storytelling and filmcraft &#8212; and manages to do so without falling into the trap of gimmickry. The story is [...] (released: 2011) ]]></description>
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		<title>Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-2011-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-2011-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy comes off with an intriguing mix of the slow and unemotional pace of the main character, Smiley, who is driving the action, countered by an emotionally charged, rapid-paced plot, while having little rapid or suspenseful onscreen action. Multiple subplots, as well as the film itself, are built around the major theme [...] (released: 2011) ]]></description>
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		<title>The Ides of March (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/ides-of-march-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/ides-of-march-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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Of all the interest The Ides of March has to offer, the title is among the most interesting of them. The reference to political leaders and assassinations is the knee-jerk and most obvious reference, yet the film turns out to be much more nuanced and intelligent in its several other overlaid and interwoven references. Mixing [...] (released: 2011) ]]></description>
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		<title>The Descendants (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/descendants-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/descendants-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Witty and gentle, unfolding at a closely measured pace, The Descendants moves through a chaotic but in the end lovely cohort of relationships wrestling with misdeeds, transgressions, wounds, and flaws, mixing tenderness and aggravation to explore how we might find heart in the middle of a mess. By intricately interweaving several stories, but making it [...] (released: 2011) ]]></description>
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		<title>Melancholia (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/melancholia-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/melancholia-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[

In Melancholia, Lars von Trier gives us a film that is simultaneously enigmatic yet concrete, multilayered yet with a simple-enough central story, immediately accessible yet with endless elements that beg for deeper consideration. By juxtaposing two ends of a far flung continuum of human travails &#8212; one person&#8217;s depression

 and a threat to the earth&#8217;s [...] (released: 2011) ]]></description>
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		<title>J. Edgar (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/j-edgar-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/j-edgar-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[

The single most notable characteristic of J. Edgar is its even-handedness. It could have gone liberal, centering on abuse of power and civil rights violations, or conservative, centering on our dangerous world and the need for certain protections. Instead, it wraps stories and vignettes around these themes,

 with J. Edgar Hoover&#8217;s life, accomplishments, and frailties [...] (released: 2011) ]]></description>
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		<title>Sympathy for Delicious (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/sympathy-for-delicious-before</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Sympathy for Delicious takes us on an unusual journey of the collision between a faithless faith-healer and a priest who has big visions for his work. From both sides, it explores how we can miss the gifts we&#8217;ve been given in our dead-ahead focus on what we want for the future.

 The film&#8217;s fantastical premise [...] (released: 2010) ]]></description>
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		<title>Drive (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/drive-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/drive-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 23:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[

The trailers for Drive promise an action flick full of intensity and fast driving. There is indeed plenty of intensity and also some very good driving. There are some very bad bad guys, and great peril of life and limb. If that&#8217;s all one wants in a film, this is a good film for it. [...] (released: 2011) ]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Days in Utopia (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/seven-days-in-utopia-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/seven-days-in-utopia-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[

Knowing that Seven Days in Utopia is, broadly speaking, from the genre of Christian films might cause some to cheer and some to run. For my part, I take the film on its own terms, letting it build its own world as it will. Though of the Christian genre,

 Christian themes are, to the film&#8217;s [...] (released: 2011) ]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah&#8217;s Key (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/sarahs-key-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/sarahs-key-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah&#8217;s Key relates a Jewish girl&#8217;s experience during a terrible incident of French complicity in the Holocaust, which is indeed a powerful story in itself, yet the true strength of the film (and the novel on which it is based) is in its intertwining of

 a current day family story and investigative plot with the [...] (released: 2011) ]]></description>
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		<title>The Trip (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/trip2011-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/trip2011-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Trip comes off like two guys taking a trip. Not an odyssey, a trip. A week long trip, different place each night, lots of talk &#8212; often laugh-out-loud talk &#8212; on the road and at dinner. Yet the film sets a context and contrast for much more to be subtly,

 very subtly, happening along [...] (released: 2011) ]]></description>
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		<title>The Tree of Life (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/tree-of-life-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/tree-of-life-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll say upfront that I find The Tree of Life to be very much worth the time. I&#8217;ll also say that it is the type of enigmatic and obscure exploration of life that demands viewers to be highly engaged and to reserve judgment. With any film, it is good to sit back and receive,

 letting [...] (released: 2011) ]]></description>
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		<title>Somewhere (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/somewhere-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/somewhere-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere didn&#8217;t stay long at the theaters. That&#8217;s too bad, but it&#8217;s understandable. For many among us, a film must grab us and take us away; not so many know how to engage in the slow ride of taking in

 a brief space in a life, observing the way a life &#8212; possibly our own [...] (released: 2010) ]]></description>
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		<title>Sucker Punch (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/sucker-punch-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/sucker-punch-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 15:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a mix of chagrin, delight, and mock ignominy, I must say that Sucker Punch really had something going on. Much of the film is pure video game in its construction, and the narration

 is heavy-handed in telling you much (but not all) of what the film is up to, yet looking closer, these are [...] (released: 2011) ]]></description>
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		<title>Cool Hand Luke (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/cool-hand-luke-before</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What drives a wayward son to be wayward? What is waywardness, really? Cool Hand Luke hides these questions in every frame, and it&#8217;s not always clear who is the wayward one. This uncertainty gives the film a broad and deep question-richness that sets us nicely into a mode of

 simply engaging and observing, waiting until [...] (released: 1967) ]]></description>
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