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[See “Entry from June 30, 2010” under “My Diary”]
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[See “Entry from June 30, 2010” under “My Diary”]
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The latest exercise in nihilism and theatre-of-the-absurd from the Coen Brothers
Jack Nicholson gives the performance of his career and Alexander Payne delivers on the promise of Citizen Ruth and Election
The Thief directed by Pavel Chukhrai is a deeply moving meditation on family and fatherhood told from the point of view of Sanya (Misha Philipchuk) the six year old son of the beautiful Katya (Yekaterina Rednikova). His father having died of wounds shortly after the end of the Second World War, Sanya was born in…
Firelight, written and directed by William Nicholson (Shadowlands, Nell), is a contemporary chick-flick, one of those costume drama romances that attempts to marry traditional girlish fantasies to a mild strain of feminism so as to make its mainly female consumers feel comfortable, even virtuous, about watching what would otherwise be embarrassingly retrograde material. A poor…
A much too long and incoherent but always watchable journey into the ever-stranger country of the 1970s.
The Matchmaker, directed by Mark Joffe, stars Janeane Garofalo as Marcy Tizard, campaign worker for Senator John McGlory (Jay O. Sanders) of Massachusetts. McGlory is running behind in his re-election battle on account of some unspecified outrages against family values, and his campaign manager, Nick (Dennis Leary), dreams up the brilliant scheme of sending Marcy…
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