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EDDIE COCKRELL
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• Nitrate Online
• Variety

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East coast editor and video columnist, Nitrate Online (http://www.nitrateonline.com) Variety critic, Berlin, Toronto, Montreal, Karlovy Vary, Seattle, Denver festivals (http://www.variety.com) Catalogue editor/writer, Washington DC, Philadelphia,Hamptons, Sydney festivals Eddie Cockrell is a film critic, programmer and public speaker based in suburban Maryland. From 1994 to 1996 he presented sneak screenings at Washington's Biograph Theater, and continues to speak regularly at the Key Sunday Cinema Club, Talk Cinema and Sunday Cinema at the Charles program in New York, Washington, Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia, New Jersey and Westchester. He contributes film catalogue notes to the Sydney and Hamptons film festivals, the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema and Filmfest DC, serving as Senior Catalogue Editor and Programmer for the latter since its inception in 1986. His recent programs for the Smithsonian Associates include "Understanding the Art of Film," "Comedy Today" and "The Hollywood Musical," and he has hosted programs at the Corcoran Gallery of Art exploring the films of Peter Weir and Stanley Kubrick and at the National Gallery of Art surveying contemporary Slovak Cinema. He has been film critic for Fox Morning News and Fox News at Noon in Washington, DC (Fox WTTG 5) and Programmer/Project Coordinator for "Films from the Americas," presented by the Cultural Center of the Inter-American Development Bank in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel. Since 1992 he has served as Executive Director of The Americas Film Festival Foundation, a non-profit organization which presents new Spanish- and Portuguese-language film events around the world. For many years he served as the Associate Director of Film Programming for The American Film Institute National Exhibition Programs, planning and presenting film and video series at the AFI's year-round repertory cinema at WashingtonÕs Kennedy Center. He researched and wrote Preview, the theater's monthly film schedule. Highlights include previously banned films from Romania, an ongoing weekly examination of new American Independent Cinema, contemporary German films and tributes to film personalities (including John Cassavetes, Greta Garbo, Satyajit Ray, Fred MacMurray, Barbet Schroeder, Marlene Dietrich, Ken Russell and the gangster in film). A veteran of television, radio, and classroom, he has appeared on the Panorama (WTTG), John McLaughlin (CNBC) and WorldNet (USIA) TV programs; the Derek McGinty (WAMU FM), Voice of America (USIA) and Morning Papers (WHFS FM) radio broadcasts; and at various movie presentations, on-stage celebrity interviews and fundraising events. A Washington area native, Cockrell holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature/Cinema Studies from The American University and served on the adjunct faculty from 1990 to 1993. From 1979 to 1989 he was film critic for WGMS radio in Washington, and for a time wrote the "Film Talk" column for the Friday Weekend section of The Washington Post. As Film Specialist he was involved with the "Filmmaking in America" project for the United States Information Agency from 1982 to 1989. In this capacity he researched and wrote panels for the exhibit and traveled to Athens, Belgrade, Bucharest, and Bratislava, where he trained the on-site tour guides and discussed the history of Hollywood with local media, academics and exhibit visitors. In 1992 he served as a juror for the inaugural edition of the Festival of First Films in Bratislava, (former) Czechoslovakia.
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"This Joan is vulnerable, human, headstrong and, finally, empathetic in a way, say, Preminger’s never was." -- Nitrate Online
Posted Feb 20, 2008
 
Joan the Maid - The Battles/The Prisons (1994)80%
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"Cast is spot-on, with craft package to match." -- Variety
Posted Feb 13, 2008
 
Cherry Blossoms: Hanami (2008)n/a
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"A bright, snappy relationship comedy." -- Variety
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
Just Sex and Nothing Else (2005)n/a
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"A quietly confident visual poem to Haiti and its turbulent history, Eat, for This Is My Body is a solid achievement in avant-garde ethnographic formalism." -- Variety
Posted Jan 30, 2008
 
Eat, For This Is My Body (2008)n/a
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"Fifteen credited artists labored over the distinct animated style, a jerky collage in which cutouts of actors' heads are blended with animated bodies and surroundings; result is crude yet novel." -- Variety
Posted Dec 18, 2007
 
The District (2007)88%
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"Deliberately paced and naturally limned by all, the family's ups and downs make for a satisfying journey." -- Variety
Posted Oct 1, 2007
 
Days and Clouds (2008)86%
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"Meaty issues of media responsibility and individual self-determination, coupled with inside-baseball aspects of set politics and immigration policies, elevate this unintentional analogy on U.S. involvement in Iraq to a hot-button level." -- Variety
Posted Sep 29, 2007
 
Operation Filmmaker (2008)96%
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"Gore's godfather audaciously and successfully reboots his incalculably influential zombie franchise as a lean, mean teen-survival machine." -- Variety
Posted Sep 18, 2007
 
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)60%
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"It's all here, from the exploding drum kit on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1967 to the trampling deaths at the band's 1979 Cincinnati gig." -- Variety
Posted Sep 17, 2007
 
Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who (2007)80%
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"A nostalgic, meticulously researched full course meal from granddaughter Kristi Jacobson that will whet appetites of fest, specialty and tube diners." -- Variety
Posted Sep 15, 2007
 
Toots (2007)100%
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"Deep, rich sound accompanies distressed, often unfocused black-and-white shots of nighttime winter streets, garishly lit interiors and archival footage. Splashes of color in cut-out animation segs add to the texture." -- Variety
Posted Sep 10, 2007
 
My Winnipeg (2008)96%
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"At once hagiographic and revealing, backstage docu Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise follows the never-a-dull-moment rocker during Los Angeles rehearsals and an early 2007 Canadian tour." -- Variety
Posted Sep 4, 2007
 
Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise (2008)70%
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"A quietly confident caper comedy in which a laid-back data processor embezzles the embezzlers of a rural French supermarket in the wake of a squall, Before the Storm is distinguished by a sure narrative hand and a subversively droll demeanor." -- Variety
Posted Sep 4, 2007
 
Before the Storm (2007)n/a
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"Tasteful in more ways than one, mischievous and charming docu How to Cook Your Life serves up a heapin' helping of Zen." -- Variety
Posted Aug 18, 2007
 
How to Cook Your Life (2007)71%
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"Newcomer Thuy Nguyen, only 14 during production, holds her own with natural aplomb." -- Variety
Posted Aug 4, 2007
 
Holly (2007)62%
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"A taut police procedural that craftily blends ripped-from-the-headlines genetic issues with foreboding Icelandic stoicism, Jar City reps a supremely confident stride into mass-appeal genre fare for Icelandic hyphenate Baltasar Kormakur." -- Variety
Posted Jul 21, 2007
 
Jar City (2008)91%
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"An uncommonly resonant sports drama in which a talented yet troubled gymnast comes to terms with a turbulent past, White Palms proves a distinctive and absorbing third feature by Szabolcs Hajdu." -- Variety
Posted Jun 19, 2007
 
White Palms (2007)89%
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"The moral quandary of Nazi complicity is revisited in taut drama The Counterfeiters." -- Variety
Posted May 25, 2007
 
The Counterfeiters (2008)94%
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"Keenly observed drama." -- Variety
Posted Mar 10, 2007
 
Iska's Journey (2007)n/a
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"Longtime fans of Walker's warm, sepulchral baritone, startlingly evocative songwriting and lushly imaginative instrumentation will rejoice at this revealing docu." -- Variety
Posted Mar 6, 2007
 
Scott Walker: 30th Century Man (2006)92%
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"Pic is a fine example of old-fashioned story-telling and also will dance wherever detailed character development and leisurely-paced drama are appreciated." -- Variety
Posted Nov 29, 2006
 
Vitus (2007)64%
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"Overall impression is one of unrestricted access and harmonious cooperation, which certainly helps to humanize the often daunting scope and style of Wilson's work." -- Variety
Posted Oct 24, 2006
 
Absolute Wilson (2006)75%
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"Although the outcome is public record, pic is undeniably gripping as it reveals a distressing degree of voter complacency." -- Variety
Posted Sep 23, 2006
 
Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? (2006)83%
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"This pic finds 76-year-old King continuing at the top of his game." -- Variety
Posted Sep 22, 2006
 
EMPz 4 Life (2006)n/a
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"German vet Volker Schloendorff stumbles slightly, but doesn't fall, with Poland-set Solidarity saga Strike." -- Variety
Posted Sep 22, 2006
 
Strike (2007)87%
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"This unaffected charmer treats a hot-button contempo issue with old-fashioned grace and benevolent wit." -- Variety
Posted Sep 19, 2006
 
Outsourced (2007)76%
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"Focusing in large part on faces, and fragments of faces, in the drama, Madsen uses the rigid countenance of Mikkelsen and the troubled beauty of Stengade -- both outstanding -- as windows to their turbulent souls." -- Variety
Posted Sep 19, 2006
 
Prague (2006)n/a
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"Morally resonant [and] deeply-felt." -- Variety
Posted Sep 18, 2006
 
True North (2006)75%
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"A virtuoso marriage of image and thought." -- Variety
Posted Sep 18, 2006
 
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)100%
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"A workmanlike costumer that distills Blighty's long battle for the abolition of slavery and the personalities behind landmark antislavery legislation into a tidy story of conscience and perseverance." -- Variety
Posted Sep 15, 2006
 
Amazing Grace (2007)70%
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"[It] works chiefly because they continue to simultaneously embrace and condemn the cruel superficiality of their self-absorbed losers." -- Variety
Posted Sep 12, 2006
 
For Your Consideration (2006)51%
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"Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela reps a strong calling card for U.S.-born helmer Thomas Allen Harris." -- Variety
Posted Jul 7, 2006
 
Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela (2006)n/a
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"A clear-eyed and oddly touching docudocu about a gaggle of Baltimoreans who dress up in home-made medieval garb and chase each other around soccer fields and meadows." -- Variety
Posted Jun 20, 2006
 
Darkon (2007)89%
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"A deep breath of Kaurismakian deadpan." -- Variety
Posted May 14, 2006
 
Fresh Air (2006)n/a
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"Kamataki is a film of rich, quiet pleasures..." -- Variety
Posted May 3, 2006
 
Kamataki (2005)n/a
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"[A] stunningly played story of faith vs. family." -- Variety
Posted Apr 25, 2006
 
Requiem (2006)88%
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"A provocative, finely crafted pic that becomes alarmingly disjointed in the last reels but casts enough of a spell." -- Variety
Posted Apr 18, 2006
 
Slumming (2006)40%
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"Though its downward trajectory may be obvious, the script is a marvel of clarity, economy and metaphor." -- Variety
Posted Mar 16, 2006
 
Mirage (2006)82%
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"Distaff helmer Anahi Berneri alternates between long lenses and jarring, fragmentary close-up shots, creating an assured and forceful visual cocktail that serves grim quest well." -- Variety
Posted Mar 16, 2006
 
A Year Without Love (2006)89%
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"Character-rich pic plays like vintage Lumet, mining the grim comedy from life-and-death legal wranglings in the manner of Dog Day Afternoon, Prince of the City and The Verdict." -- Variety
Posted Mar 16, 2006
 
Find Me Guilty (2006)57%
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"A tonal triumph of true-life storytelling told with equal measures of tension and redemption." -- Variety
Posted Mar 10, 2006
 
51 Birch Street (2006)95%
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"Third time's the charm for Czech helmer Bohdan Slama, whose talent for locating the dignity in the downtrodden of his native Czech Republic is on moving display." -- Variety
Posted Feb 3, 2006
 
Something Like Happiness (2005)88%
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"Deftly balancing epic sociopolitical scope with intimate human emotions, all polished to a high technical gloss, Deepa Mehta's Water is a profoundly moving drama." -- Variety
Posted Nov 4, 2005
 
Water (2006)91%
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"Laugh-out-loud funny, tartly off-color and ultimately touching." -- Variety
Posted Nov 3, 2005
 
Transamerica (2005)76%
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"A dignified and wistful look at the unusual life, difficult career and lasting influence of singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt." -- Variety
Posted Oct 20, 2005
 
Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (2005)93%
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"An effervescent, candy-colored widescreen romp that wraps a Japanese fish story around the eponymous Brothers Grimm fairytale in the form of an eventful contempo romance." -- Variety
Posted Oct 19, 2005
 
The Fisherman and His Wife (2005)n/a
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"A hypnotically involving film based on the genuinely novel idea of stitching together shots taken over a six-year period in 11 American states and six countries." -- Variety
Posted Sep 16, 2005
 
Chain (2006)57%
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"A big, easy overview of New Orleans' rich musical heritage." -- Variety
Posted Sep 9, 2005
 
Make it Funky! (2005)93%
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"Fans of the Grammy-winning musician will revel in the proximity to their idol, though second pic from talented helmer Thomas Riedelsheimer plays a tad long to those unfamiliar with his, or her, work." -- Variety
Posted Sep 1, 2005
 
Touch the Sound (2006)87%
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"Results are solid, if stylistically unspectacular." -- Variety
Posted Jul 14, 2005
 
Stalin's Wife (2005)64%

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