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[See “Entry from July 22, 2009” under “My Diary”]
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[See “Entry from July 22, 2009” under “My Diary”]
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Portrait of a Lady by Jane Campion has a very strange beginning. A bunch of contemporary girls, photographed in black and white and grainy stills, as if they were the fading memories, talk about love and men and kissing and “relationships” and marriage over opening credits until one holds out her hand and we see…
The best line in Random Hearts, adapted from the novel by Warren Adler by Kurt Luedtke and directed by Sydney Pollack, comes when the frail-looking but impossibly beautiful novice congresswoman, Kay Chandler (Kristin Scott-Thomas) tries to get tough with the tough old cop, “Dutch” Van Den Broeck (Harrison Ford), from the District of Columbia Police…
A bittersweet and often very funny look at family relationships which, in spite of a good script and a great cast, doesn’t quite come off
If our moronic politicians were not as corrupt as three-day-old roadkill they wouldn’t need the media to tell them what to do
Liev Schreiber’s intermittently amusing adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel prunes the original a little too drastically
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