Posted by Ethan under Film Review, NYC Film Critic
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Putty Hill
Written and Directed by Matt Porterfield
Starring Sky Ferreira, Zoe Vance, James Siebor Jr., Dustin Ray
**1/2
Matt Porterfield’s Putty Hill is an earnest attempt to do something different with the “kids aren’t all right†school of movies, which seek to depict the aimlessness and/or amorality of contemporary youth. It’s a genre that’s almost as old as Hollywood itself, growing out of such socially-conscious one-reelers as 1909’s A Drunkard’s Reformation and The Usurer’s Grip, which warned viewers against the evils of alcoholism and loan sharks respectively.
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Posted by Ethan under Years in Review
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Summing up 2010’s best and worst and everything in between.
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Tags: 127 Hours, A Letter to Elia, Alamar, Another Year, Black Swan, Boxing Gym, Carlos, Casino Jack and the United States of Money, Client 9, Enter the Void, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Fish Tank, Four Lions, Inception, Let Me In, My Trip to Al-Qaeda, Please Give, Pure Corruption, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Stonewall Uprising, The Illusionist, The Killer Inside Me, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, True Grit, Un Prophete
