Director Milos Forman and writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski make an ideal team. Forman makes movies so impossibly tasteful,…
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Frank is a London yuppie, roughly 30, who lives next door to a crackhouse. He’s kept the place for years,…
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Woody Allen has a lot to answer for. His two great romantic comedies – Annie Hall and Manhattan – were…
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Wong Kar-wei is best known in America for the vibrant, goofy visual pyrotechnics of Chungking Express and Happy Together. These…
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Imagine the sales pitch. Giddy investors have gathered to hear the new idea from Lars von Trier, who is following…
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Jane Campion is an exasperating filmmaker. She makes compelling – if uneven – films in a style so affected that…
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There was no reason to expect much from Hannibal. Nothing about it suggested that it might be interesting: it’s the…
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Steve Zahn makes a formidable idiot. No one plays stoned bemusement with such inspiration, such slow-on-the-uptake brilliance. In supporting roles…
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Suggested reading: Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century (1990), Greil Marcus Rotten – No Irish, No Blacks,…
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Punishingly slow, nearly four hours long, and so careful to avoid histrionics that it often approaches tedium, Shinji Aoyama’s Eureka…
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Detroit Rock City is the latest entry in a fine film genre with a distinguished pedigree: cheesy movies about rock…
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