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Category: Film
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At lunch in the book-lined dining room of the Lotos Club this week, Saoirse Ronan joined director John Crowley and producer Finola Dwyer for a discussion of the film Brooklyn, based on Colm Toibin’s beloved novel. Ronan stars as Eilis Lacey, a young woman who comes to America from Ireland. Moderated by Doubt playwright John…
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After Richard Holbrooke died on December 13, 2010, former president Bill Clinton remarked, why does he have to die? The world is falling apart, and “here’s a guy who can put things together.” That was a sentiment shared by many. Both Clintons knew Richard Holbrooke quite well, his son David did not know him so…
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Bradley Cooper has been prepping for the role of Adam Jones in the film Burnt from the time he shucked oysters in a New Jersey restaurant back in the day. A kitchen view of the fine food industry, Burnt was demanding of all its actors—Sienna Miller, Daniel Bruhl, Omar Sy, Sam Keeley—they all had to…
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Exploding buildings and passions define the fight for women’s right to vote in Britain in the early 20th century. The new movie Suffragette tells that story in a thrilling, action-packed all women production, starring Carey Mulligan as Maude Watts, a laundry worker, mother and wife. Radicalized by the rhetoric of activists including pharmacist Edith Ellyn…
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The most terrifying movie of the season does not involve aliens, ghouls, or men in hooded masks. It is the movie Room, from Emma Donoghue’s screenplay based on her best-selling novel, showing moments of tender love between a mother and young son in a small cell-like shed with only a skylight to the outside: the…
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The Maidstone in East Hampton was party central for the Hamptons International Film Festival, both scheduled and spontaneous. Caterer Janet O’Brien, supplying the Guild Hall green room with goodies of cheeses and figs, spoke about partying late into the night at the Maidstone, sipping the Bedell win“es. On Sunday morning, the dining room was locus…
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Truth, a riveting movie about the famous scandal at CBS 60 Minutes that cost Dan Rather his nightly news anchorship, is based on Mary Mapes’ account. A sassy, hard working producer, Mapes was fired in this incident calling into question George W. Bush’s military record. Rather and Mapes knew they were reporting a true story,…
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The famously reclusive and curmudgeonly photographer/filmmaker Robert Frank smiles throughout the documentary Robert Frank Don’t Blink, as if he’s having a good time with Laura Israel, a longtime assistant who deigned to make a film about him. When she asked, the Swiss-born artist did not say no. In distinct stages marked by evocative music (Velvet…
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Jan Donovan Amorosi had just seen Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies at a special screening the night before its New York Film Festival premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Sunday night. “We had no idea what our father had gone through when we were growing up in Brooklyn,” she said, now preparing for a second…
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Labyrinth of Lies, a new Holocaust themed movie, the German entry for the Foreign Language Film Oscar, takes place in the era after World War II, when 22 “ordinary” German men who committed anti-human crimes at Auschwitz were brought to justice in Frankfurt. Filmmaker Giulio Ricciarelli, a Milan born German from Munich is proud to…
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Defying categorization, Roger Waters The Wall premiered this week, not just a rock concert filmed, although it is that; even more, in a classic Oedipal journey, Roger Waters seeks his paternity, the father and grandfather he did not know. The casualties of the two world wars, these men become the objects of a quest in…
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When James Marsh’s Oscar winning documentary Man on Wire premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008, it seemed like a miracle, not only Philippe Petit’s stunning walk across wire 110 stories in the air, but the image of the World Trade Towers from August 7, 1974, as their destruction was fresh in everyone's mind.…
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You have to love Nancy Meyers for her happy endings, and her optimism about women’s lives. In her latest film confection, The Intern, a laugh-out-loud, melt-in-your-mouth bonbon, the adorable Anne Hathaway plays Jules Ostin, a workaholic founder of a successful women’s wear Internet business housed in a chic downtown loft. Launching a senior intern program for retirees,…
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By the time I got home from the Sicario premiere at MoMA this week, the film’s star Emily Blunt was trading puke takes with Stephen Colbert on his Late Night Show. The vomiting is not as random as you’d think: the new movie directed by Denis Villeneuve has such grim imagery, the characters, FBI agents…
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Talk about extreme sports. The new documentary Meru will make you wonder why anyone would want to put themselves so far out of any human comfort zone. That doesn’t mean you won’t want to watch this daring film. Meru, in fact, plays like an action thriller, because the characters’ extreme drive is compelling as are…
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“This story wasn’t going away,” said David Simon explaining his persistence in making the six-part mini series, Show Me a Hero, he co wrote with William F. Zorzi based on Lisa Belkin’s 1999 book. The story in question is about chaos in Yonkers in the late ‘80’s, over desegregation in housing. Yes, the ‘80’s are…
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Grey Gardens: The Musical was made for a run at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater, just a few miles from the original East Hampton real estate that inspired the Maysles’ Brothers classic documentary film. Starring the two Edies Beale, inseparable mother and daughter, the nonfiction film spawned an HBO movie from the Broadway play, book…
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