In 2007 I had the great privilege of doing a telephone interview with Alain Resnais. It was a very genial conversation that alighted ona variety of topics, one of which,…
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I know what you might be thinking: "What, ANOTHER movie about the travails of young white women seeking fulfillment in challenging urban America, someone kill me now." That feeling will…
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Rachel McAdams going about as far as she's going to for her director. My initial attempted aperçu about this romp was: "Passion purports to be a Brian De Palma remake…
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1) The Loneliest Planet My reactions to this film are unavoidably colored by the fact that it's based on a short story by Tom Bissell, who aside from being in…
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So, I am WAY behind on my New York Film Festival blog coverage, and I do hope to get up to speed soon, and I do recommend in the meanwhile…
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Those are not the words of Mr. Shane Danielsen himself, but of a documentary filmmaker from Norway that Mr. Danielsen encountered after the screening of un film de Joe Swanberg…
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