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(Ed. Note: Originally published at Film-Think.) Spike Lee’s dolly shots in 25th Hour may be the best post-9/11 commentary on film – shocked minds drifting to and fro among aftermath. At first, pulling Anna Paquin and Philip Seymour Hoffman through a Manhattan nightclub on dollies seems contrived, not out of sync with New York nightlife. But […]

(Ed. Note: This was originally published at Image Facts.) 25th Hour is such a good film that it helps us ignore a few its crippling flaws. The film is a devastating glimpse of the new New York, the one that has lost a bit of its swagger. It is a city whose affluence is now a matter […]