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In a beautifully crafted movie poised for awards and holiday box office, Blue Valentine puts a wacky mirror on that fragile thing: marriage. Moving back and forth in easy yet thrilling fluidly from the present problems to past passions, Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams) try to repair their romance in a future themed…
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Is it a spoof, seriously played for laughs? A Hollywood vehicle or art house gem? With the superb Jeff Bridges as a gun-slinging Falstaff, Matt Damon as straight man, Josh Brolin as slick-haired villain, the usual assortment of pock-marked outlaws, and the debut of a wise, sensible, and precocious fourteen year old Hailee Steinfeld, the remake…
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There is nothing natural about the bizarre tale that inspired director Andrew Jarecki to make his new film All Good Things. And yet, at a luncheon at Michael's today, introducing his star, Kirsten Dunst –in an Oscar-worthy performance as a doomed young woman whose disappearance 18 years ago remains a mystery– he claims that her…
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Back in the day when writers were king, Elaine's was the place for book parties. That's how I first came there, to celebrate new publications by George Plimpton, Kurt Vonnegut. Bunches of us cabbed over from director Robert Altman's memorial service at Radio City Music Hall, to hang out and reminisce with his widow Kathryn,…
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Lowell, Massachusetts, with its ethnic enclaves and brick mills is the perfect breeding ground for the great American story: Jack Kerouac, the French-Canadian author of the iconic novel of the 1950's On the Road, famously came from there. And so did Dickie Ekland, an Irish fighter who knocked out Sugar Ray Leonard in 1978, or…
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Charles Cohen, of the newly minted Cohen Media Group, introduced his distribution company and their inaugural film, the Algerian entry into the Oscars race, “Outside the Law,” at a luncheon at The Four Seasons last week. Of the 65 films Charles Cohen put forward by their countries as contenders for the Best Foreign Film Academy Award, this…
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With a minimum of Neil LaBute's provocative, poetic potty mouth, his new play, “The Break of Noon,” opens with the sole survivor of an office massacre wrapped in a blanket, his ankle sheathed in a blood soaked cloth. Going over the gory details, this man-aptly named John Smith– is stunned at how the gunman made…
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Last Thursday evening at the Park Avenue Armory, after the consumption of an elegant dinner and the auctioning of many fine items including the most adorable black and white spaniel, Sheryl Crow rocked the cavernous house. In sequins over jeans, she sang her signature songs: “If it Makes You Happy” and “Soak Up the Sun.”…
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Fran Lebowitz is a motormouth, so all you really have to do is press “ON.” That makes television a perfect medium for this unusual talker, who, part James Thurber, part Dorothy Parker, part Oscar Levant, thrives at public speaking. With her signature man tailored white shirt, Savile Row suit jacket over jeans and cowboy boots,…
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A fresher, smarter movie you are not likely to see this season than “Tiny Furniture,” written, directed by, and starring Lena Dunham, a sweet-faced young woman festooned with tasteful tattoos. A film within the film shows her in a bikini, not a perfect ten, but you've got to give her snaps for this vanity defying…
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No one can believe David Amram is now 80. Yes, you can do the math. But, to see him cavorting about the ample stage in front of a packed Symphony Space on Thursday for his birthday celebration was surely to see a man in mid-life: Hence the title, “The First 80 Years.” In typical Amram…
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Director Danny Boyle is a master cineaste of potty detail. Who can forget the toilet swim in “Trainspotting”? Or the latrines of “Slumdog Millionaire”? In “127 Hours,” the most revolting is Aron Ralston (James Franco) drinking his own urine in a life saving moment when he is pinned under a boulder in Blue John Canyon…
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The subject of equal pay for skilled workers is of course a serious subject, but in “Made in Dagenham,” a little known but true story about a strike at a Ford plant in mid-century England is told with such heart and humor, many will call it a comedy. On Monday Rouge Tomate was bustling for…
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Even as a CNN political talk show host, the specter of scandal haunts Eliot Spitzer. Oscar winning Alex Gibney seized the moment to document the fallen governor who many believe might have been president. At the movie’s premier last week, the filmmaker addressed a screening room at the Tribeca Grand Hotel packed with a who’s…
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The crowd-pleasing “Made in Dagenham,” about a strike for equal pay for women workers at a Ford plant in mid-'60's England, will remind many viewers of “Norma Rae.” With a winning performance by Sally Hawkins in the lead as Rita, this labor world variation of “the little engine that could” has a charm all its…
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The centerpiece of the New York Film Festival, "The Tempest" is state of the art Julie Taymor, that is, a study in the spectacular. The ashen spirit Ariel darts behind trees in the barren terrain of the Shakespearean island forest in multiples, to say nothing of the heavens conjured and riled by the tap of…
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It takes a wild leap of the imagination to think Freakonomics, the best selling book by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner could be made into a film. Incredibly, several offers were made and finally the right concept presented itself: a dream team of documentary filmmakers Morgan Spurlock, Alex Gibney, Eugene Jarecki, Rachel Grady…
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A long time has passed since the sound “d'jew” could be heard in a conversation between characters played by Tony Roberts and Woody Allen in a Woody Allen movie. In his latest romantic tragedy, “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger,” Allen's Judaism is so distant, it is a presence in absence. In a string of films, magic,…
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If you are a cook, there is a nail-biting sequence in the new movie, Jack Goes Boating, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman under his own direction, adapted from the stage play by Bob Glaudini that was such a hit at the Public Theater last year. In this astonishingly tender movie, wanting to impress Connie (Amy Ryan)…
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