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Speaking of the Weather ...

Speaking of the Weather ...

Cold Weather (2010) NYT Critics' Pick

Cris Lankenau, left, as Doug, and Robyn Rikoon as Rachel, his former girlfriend, in “Cold Weather.”
Between the Lines of Daily Living, Connecting the Dots That Matter
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: February 3, 2011

Low-key and lovely, the independent movie “Cold Weather” opens with a shot of raindrops clinging to a pane of glass, a fitting introduction for a movie about characters who are revealed gradually, as if through a glass — not darkly, but obliquely. With brooding, expressive digital photography, a rooted sense of place and characters that seem as real as the people next door, the director Aaron Katz has created a lived-in world that’s so intimate and familiar that even with the story’s unexpected turns, you might not initially see its art for its everydayness. More

Hmm, I'm not quite sure if they liked "Waiting for Forever"

If the terrain of “Waiting for Forever” resembles the everyday world, the movie’s spiritual locale is the faraway realm of Twee. Located in the same galaxy as Oz, it is a hazy dot in the great unknown of Never-Never Land

Into Eternity (2010) NYT Critics' Pick

An entrance to Onkalo, a tunnel complex in Finland under construction for the burial of nuclear waste.
Humans, Who Once Buried Their Treasures, Now Bury Their Dangers
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: February 1, 2011

I am tempted to call “Into Eternity” the most interesting documentary, and one of the most disturbing films, of the year so far, but such a pronouncement, always dubious in early February, seems especially absurd in this case. The film, directed by Michael Madsen — a Danish Conceptual artist, not the American tough-guy actor — takes an unusually long view. Mr. Madsen’s ruminative, even-toned narration is directed not at present-day critics but at viewers who may happen upon this visual artifact at some remote date in the future, as much as 100,000 years from now. More