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[See “Entry from June 23, 2010” under “My Diary”]
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[See “Entry from June 23, 2010” under “My Diary”]
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I’m Not Rappaport, written and directed by Herb Gardner from his stage play, takes its title from the old vaudeville joke. Comic walks across the stage as it were down a street and encounters straight man with surprise: “Rappaport! What happened to you?” he says. “You used to be a short, fat man and now…
A frankly mendacious and distorted account of the life and innovations of the founder of Facebook — who may or may not care
Fine performances by its two principal actors are not enough in the end to make this movie very interesting
“Tyger, Tyger burning bright.” See the connection with comic-book superheroes? No, I didn’t either.
Those who remember fondly Francis Veber’s The Dinner Game from the summer before last may be a bit disappointed in Le Placard (The Closet)—which has a lot of the earlier film’s comic invention but also, to those of us who are accustomed to Hollywood-style propaganda, enough of an ideological edge to give it an unbalancing…
A notorious and notoriously disgusting bit of cinema which, nevertheless, has a bit more to it than the rest of Lars von Trier’s films