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Cloverfield [BLU-RAY] (Paramount Home Entertainment, 6.3.2008) Disguised under deliberately goofy, yet deliciously edible-sounding, aliases such as Cheese and Slusho, Matt Reeves' Cloverfield was produced and rushed into theaters under an equally appetizing shroud of secrecy. From last year's incredibly elusive Super Bowl ad to the film's viral marketing campaign, Cloverfield had everybody scratching their heads and drooling in anticipation. Aside from the as-yet untitled title and the Blair Witch-ian visual style, the film's biggest appeal was the enigmatic creature who was last (un)seen hurling the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty onto the crowded streets of New York City. All we knew about the mysterious beast was that it was big and angry. Now that the highy-anticipated project has come and gone, one question has fortunately been answered: Cloverfield was a major success. (continued)

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"What happens now? It's just too early to tell. I'm at a crossroads. And I feel good. I feel like I've got something out of my system. I feel that I achieved a mountain for myself. A mountain. No matter what, I feel very proud of what I've written. I've achieved something I've wanted to achieve all my life. Whether it's understood or not -- maybe there's a degree of mysticism in the movie that's meant to be. And maybe it will be understood better over the years. I'm not sure. But I felt moved. I don't feel the need to do that thing -- that big thing. There's other ways to go. Maybe more to the self, more personal. You know, retreating to where filmmakers in Europe -- Truffaut and Fellini -- went: inside. And they dramatized themselves. The question is, would the Americans tolerate that? No." -- Oliver Stone to the New York Times A.O. Scott.

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