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Blog Entries by Dan Persons from 10/2009

Mighty Movie Podcast: The War Won and Lost -- Florent-Emilio Siri on Intimate Enemies

| Posted 10.05.2009

Director Florent-Emilio Sari definitely has a knack for playing the audience. He makes the most of his Moroccan locations, finding an eerie beauty in the barren landscape.

Mighty Movie Podcast: The Underdog Bites Back: Tom Hooper on The Damned United

| Posted 10.07.2009

I've got nothing against sports films that exult in good sportsmanship and the triumph of the underdog. But I'm more inclined towards films like The Damned United that scrape past the noble veneer of sports.

Mighty Movie Podcast: You Won't Like Him When He's Angry, or Happy, or... Nicolas Winding Refn on Bronson

| Posted 10.11.2009

You wanna talk extreme? Charles Bronson, ne Michael Peterson, has spent thirty-four of his fifty-six years of life in incarceration of one form or ano...

Mighty Movie Podcast: Unstable in the Home: Sebastian Silva on The Maid

| Posted 10.14.2009

New York Magazine's David Edelstein pretty much called it: About midway through, you could be forgiven for worrying if The Maid was teetering on the p...

Mighty Movie Podcast: (Almost) Live from London: Pirate Radio vs. The Boat That Rocked

| Posted 10.20.2009

So I figured, while I'm in London interviewing some of the people involved with Pirate Radio -- Richard Curtis' film about those intrepid souls who i...

Mighty Movie Podcast: Mira Nair on Amelia

| Posted 10.23.2009

You're going to have to trust me on this one: I am a romantic. Once is one of my favorite films; I teared up at both Up and Mary and Max (animated cha...

Mighty Movie Podcast: Lars von Trier's Antichrist: A Conversation

| Posted 10.28.2009

"Lars von Trier isn't going to talk to a lot of press." Yeah, yeah; yadda-yadda. But just because he isn't talking to us doesn't mean we can't talk about him, particularly about his childhood.

Mighty Movie Podcast: Committee of Whiteness: Anthony Fabian on Skin

| Posted 10.29.2009

Set in South Africa, in the throes of apartheid, the absurdist story told in Anthony Fabian's debut feature, Skin, turns out to have been all too real.

Mighty Movie Podcast: Shrieks from the '80s: Ti West on The House of the Devil

| Posted 10.31.2009

The Saw franchise may be more efficient in logging a body count, but The House of the Devil is the kind of film that reminds you how cool it is to settle back and just let the dread soak in.