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Amid Discord, A 'Quartet' Strives For Harmony
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The Horror And 'The Silence' Of Everyday Crimes
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Whatever Happened To The Real Gingers And Rosas?
A few weeks ago, I asked a class of college undergraduates what the 1960s meant to them."That flower-power thing?" one young man volunteered brightly.The further we get from that misunderstood decade,...
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An 'Admission' That Moms Might Not Know Best
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'Blancanieves': Flamenco Adventure, Snow White Style
Like many small children with underperforming nerve-end protectors, I had to be removed from Snow White, because my terrified sobs were bothering the hardier perennials around me. My cowardice always...
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Past Pains, Buried Deep 'Down The Shore'
If you want to tell a story, the professional tale-spinners say, make something happen.That's true, but a happening can be defined as elastically as the teller needs it to be. Sometimes it's a shift in...
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'Before And After' Dinner, Andre Is Still Talking
In 1981, avant-garde theater director Andre Gregory collaborated with his friend Wallace Shawn and French filmmaker Louis Malle on an oddball project they called My Dinner with Andre.Now enshrined as a...
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A Class-Concious Romp With 'The Angels' Share' Of Charm
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A 'House' Divided, Over Stories Lived And Told
Among the semi-literate journals submitted by his high-school students, jaded French literature teacher Germain (Fabrice Luchini) is jazzed to find a rough diamond from a new pupil, Claude (Ernst...
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'At Any Price': What Cost A Win?
Like last year's fracking drama Promised Land, the new movie At Any Price is about farm people getting pushed around by corporations — except that there's no Matt Damon to rescue them, cleanse his soul...
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Between Worlds, A 'Reluctant Fundamentalist'
Coming as it does amid intense public debate about the alienation of immigrants in America, the release of Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist is both timely and slightly eerie.The movie, based on...
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'Love Is All You Need,' Unless Character Matters
When a husband steps out on his wife while she's getting chemo, she's entitled to a weekend in the Mediterranean with Pierce Brosnan, right?Right, but I believe he went there quite recently with Meryl...
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Amid Discord, A 'Quartet' Strives For Harmony
It's rare these days to see an old-fashioned, elegant chamber-piece movie about life and art — let alone one with Christopher Walken as, of all things, a steadying influence.In Yaron Zilberman's minor...
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The Horror And 'The Silence' Of Everyday Crimes
The Silence, an assured first feature from Swiss-born director Baran Bo Odar, has more on its mind than most crime thrillers. Among other things, the movie is about the banality of evil, and its...
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Whatever Happened To The Real Gingers And Rosas?
A few weeks ago, I asked a class of college undergraduates what the 1960s meant to them."That flower-power thing?" one young man volunteered brightly.The further we get from that misunderstood decade,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An 'Admission' That Moms Might Not Know Best
Half an hour into Paul Weitz's new comedy, Admission, it dawned on me that I was watching an Americanized About a Boy -- which admittedly was also directed by Weitz. Both movies are adapted from other...
View ArticleClik here to view.
'Blancanieves': Flamenco Adventure, Snow White Style
Like many small children with underperforming nerve-end protectors, I had to be removed from Snow White, because my terrified sobs were bothering the hardier perennials around me. My cowardice always...
View ArticleClik here to view.
'Before And After' Dinner, Andre Is Still Talking
In 1981, avant-garde theater director Andre Gregory collaborated with his friend Wallace Shawn and French filmmaker Louis Malle on an oddball project they called My Dinner with Andre.Now enshrined as a...
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Past Pains, Buried Deep 'Down The Shore'
If you want to tell a story, the professional tale-spinners say, make something happen.That's true, but a happening can be defined as elastically as the teller needs it to be. Sometimes it's a shift in...
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A Class-Concious Romp With 'The Angels' Share' Of Charm
Responding to the death of Margaret Thatcher earlier this week, film director Ken Loach told The Guardian: "Mass unemployment, factory closures, communities destroyed — this is her legacy. She was a...
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