"I'm gonna take a bath!" I know, I know, but that's what I think whenever I see the above shot, which of course is not from Duck Soup but from…
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Mike Leigh's casts, all about the glamour, as usual; from left, Jim Broadbent, Leslie Manville, Oliver Maltman in Another Year One of my favorite critical observations, one I go back…
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Just wanted to get that out there. For those of you following from home, the news is that the manufacturer of my on-the-fritz-since-July plasma display has managed, according to them,…
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Yesterday was a really beautiful day in New York, hitting that near-perfect balance of sunny warmth and early-autumn nip-in-the-air, so my wife Claire figured that the afternoon would be a…
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One aspect of the recent films of Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira I get the biggest charge from is their discursiveness. The nearly 102-year-old filmmaker has been working at near-Fassbinder…
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Just as Hong-Sang Soo had gotten into a groove of making his films so funny that I began expecting each successive one to be a little funnier than the last,…
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