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All posts by Angelo Muredda
“Stored in the Thighs”: On “Maps to the Stars” and David Cronenberg’s Comedies of Physical Frailty
Depending on where you stand, the past year has either been a watershed for David Cronenberg or another measured auteurist step. In September, the Toronto-based filmmaker joined a small club of septuagenarian debut novelists, releasing Consumed, an equally pul...
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American Ambivalence: Sizing Up Clint Eastwood’s Late Style Aberration
Speaking to David Poland about Clint Eastwood’s take on his Hereafter script late in 2010, Peter Morgan admitted to some surprise at the film’s fast-track development from inception to realization, noting that the venerable director wanted to shoot his first d...
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The Prestige Freak Show: Eddie Redmayne’s Metamorphosis in “The Theory of Everything”
It’s the year of “Oscar’s metamorphosis,” Jenelle Riley beamed in the header of a recent Variety survey of the lead performances anchoring the season’s graduating class of prestige pictures. Reese Witherspoon, she noted, shed her sunshiny demeanour to play a r...
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