At what point in a man’s life does he decide to become a dry cleaner? For Joaquin Phoenix’s character, Leonard Kraditor, in Two Lovers that day is never and yet…
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John Woo's frequently breathtaking Red Cliff opens in the U.S. soon in a 140-minute-or-so "international version" that severely abridges the original two-part, almost five-hour epic. I've seen both, and you,…
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Don't let the juxtaposition of Nicolas Cage and the Virgin Mary seen above fool you: this loose remake of Abel Ferrara's raw 1992 masterpiece doesn't have anything like the spiritual…
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I hope I'm not sounding like I'm damning with faint praise when I point out that the signal quality of Edward Woodward's screen acting was a kind of plainness, a…
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Last week's installment, including links to previous weeks, here.Farber: "A tabloid melodrama of sex and avarice in suburbia, out of Cain by Joe Losey, featuring almost perfect acting by Evelyn…
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Full disclosure: I wrote a play about Michael Jackson once ("Dirty Doris", BATS 1995) so I’ll confess to always being interested in the real character behind the tabloid and music…
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