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Category: Film
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The real-life tragedy of Adrienne Shelly’s murder in a botched apartment robbery hangs over this, her last completed screenplay lovingly made into this sinister romantic comedy produced by her husband Andy Ostroy and directed by her co-star in Waitress, Larry David’s television wife, Cheryl Hines. Louise (Meg Ryan), a highpower uberwoman will do anything-yes, anything-to…
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Quips comparing the Gotham Awards with the Oscars ran rampant last night, so Academy Awards hovered in the cavernous Cipriani Wall Street air. Mostly, speakers agreed, the Gothams, honoring indie films, are like a younger, cooler brother: acting out, presenters feel free to speak their minds in whatever non-prime time terms. Focusing on Willem Dafoe…
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The affable Jim Sheridan held court at the Monkey Bar last Monday, talking about his new movie, to open this Friday. Given that the first rate Brothers is a redo of a 2004 Danish film directed by Susanne Bier, now set in the America that continues to deploy troops to Afghanistan, you would not necessarily…
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Pedro Almodovar's love affair with his leading lady is legend, as is his romance with movie stars of old. In his new movie, Broken Embraces, the Closing Night feature of the recent New York Film Festival that will open this Friday, he casts Penelope Cruz as a call girl/ actress in a movie within the…
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This is not a movie for sissies! Based on Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Road is a road movie on a landscape, barren after some unnamed cataclysmic event. Typical of the genre, this is also a buddy movie, father (Viggo Mortensen) and son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) make for a duo set on survival, foraging…
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There's something hot about the guys in Oren Moverman's well-crafted movie The Messenger. Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster play a team of soldiers whose task it is to inform NOK's (Next of Kin) about the death of their loved ones in Iraq and Afganistan-not your typical sexy subject. And not your typical film about the…
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As the voice of Mr. Fox in the movie version of Roald Dahl's classic, George Clooney reprises his role as Danny Ocean, a wily schemer in good suits. Maybe that's why dioramas of his woodsy world adorn the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's Men's Store on Fifth Avenue. Ophelia Dahl greeted guests at last night's Paris…
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Werner Herzog's sequel to an Abel Ferrara film starring Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes belongs to the genre of drug fueled fantasies like “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:” the imagery is just laugh out loud. We've never seen Cage like this, at times channeling James Stewart, which, when you consider the plot of solving…
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Longtime Michael Jackson friend Elizabeth Taylor weighed in on This Is It, twittering: it is the brilliant movie of all time. Well, if your mother insists you are beautiful, do you believe her? This time, Liz may have a point. Last night, all screens at the Regal Theater multiplex on 42 Street were packed for…
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What can you say about a woman who vanishes in the proverbial thin air? The mysteries about the remarkable Amelia Earhart and her disappearance in 1937 with her navigator Fred Noonan (Christopher Eccleston) over the Pacific Ocean persist and make ideal fodder for biographies and biopics. As Amelia, in the new movie directed by Mira…
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Filmmaker Michael Moore apologized for being late to the premiere of his new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story. President Obama, a guest on David Letterman, was clogging traffic and Moore got caught up in his motorcade. “We could have just kept going,” said Moore from the stage of Alice Tully Hall before a packed and…
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The actor Ben Whishaw has that dying poet thing down. In Jane Campion's new movie Bright Star, he is a tender presence, portraying the ill-fated John Keats who dies at age 25 before fulfilling the bright future suggested by the poetry that survives him, including “La Belle Dame Sans Merci,” “Endymion,” “Lamia,” and his famous…
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The name of this riveting documentary, the latest by Joe Berlinger, puns on its subject, oil, at the same time that it indicts an industry for its indifference to a people and part of our planet it views as expendable. In Ecuador, in a place that was once a paradise, slick inky pools stagnate where…
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On the final evening of Guild Hall's superb film series programmed by Gavin Wiesen who also led the Q&A, the actress Candice Bergen introduced her late husband Louis Malle's masterpiece about growing up during the German occupation of France. The events take place in a convent school outside of Paris where Julien and his older…
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Quentin Tarantino's saturated colors in his new work, “Inglourious Basterds,” illustrate his concern with make-believe. Which is why when a steamed up friend called to say he is an “Anti-Semitic” jerk, the audience at the Academy of Motion Pictures's screening she attended speechless in dismay, I knew that despite my being beach-side and remote…
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Ulrike Meinhof, a prominent left-wing journalist in '70's Germany found the revolutionary spirit of the R.A.F. so appealing, she abandoned her children to join up with a counterculture much like the U. S. Weather Underground in its terrorist tactics. Andreas Baader was one of its leaders along with Gudrun Ensslin and other young people who…
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Women of the 1950's were transitional-that is, they were betwixt what Richard Pryor referred to as the “Great Pussy Drought” and the era of sexual liberation of the 1960's and beyond. One such woman, Ann Devereau, the actor George Hamilton's mother, fled her philandering husband in 1953 in a baby blue Cadillac Coupe de Ville…
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On Friday night, East Hampton's Guild Hall was packed for the Hamptons International Film Festival SummerDoc's screening of a new documentary opening next week. “It Might Get Loud” limns the history of rock & roll from the perspective of three generations of electric guitar players, interweaving interviews and performances, archival and live, featuring Led Zeppelin's…
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Sir Howard Stringer introduced Nora Ephron at the Julie & Julia premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater on Thursday night, calling the writer/ producer/ director who is also a dynamite cook as readers of her best seller “Heartburn” know, “a woman for all seasonings.” Little wonder that she would concoct a most delicious movie combining the…
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The documentary “Yoo Hoo Mrs. Goldberg” is a heimish and a fascinating trip down memory lane for those of us who remember Gertrude Berg on television, schmoozing with her neighbors, her ample arms perched on the windowsill. Before her success in the salad years of television, she and her fictive family “The Goldbergs” were on…
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