James Gray's very fine Two Lovers opens in New York and Los Angeles theaters tomorrow. I wrote the following about it back when I saw it at Cannes last May. "...most…
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Three views: Lincoln the Visionary—signing into law that act that will build a trans-continental raildroad, despite the protests of those arguing that such a further expense cannot by borne in…
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After Slumdog Millionaire last week, everything seems kind of old-fashioned. At any other time a film like Milk would stand out from the crowd as an example of quality, thoughtful,…
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In the Slumdog Millionaire review the other day I called composer A.R. Rahman a "Bollywood legend" and, for those of you unfamiliar with his oeuvre I thought I'd give you…
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Here he is, almost 20 years before teaming up with Vivian Vance (whom he once referred to as "look like a sack of doorknobs") for I Love Lucy, chatting up…
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As you are no doubt aware, I am NOT in the habit of posting trailers, Red-Band or not, on this blog. So my reasons for doing so in this case…
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