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New York Film Festival Review: Timothy Spall Brings Mike Leigh’s “Mr. Turner” To Life
What makes a great opening shot of a film? It could simply be beautiful to look at, or intriguing enough to hook you into the story. Better still, it could perfectly distill a film’s themes into a single, compelling image. By any of these measures, the opening...
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New York Film Festival Dispatch #2: “Saint Laurent”, “National Gallery” and “Red Army”
Saint Laurent
With their strained efforts to eschew the obvious, one could argue that biopics trafficking in jumbled chronologies are in danger of becoming as clichéd as the traditional linear narrative. Such a fate too often befalls Bertrand Bonello’s ...
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New York Film Festival Review: “Gone Girl” a Pitch Black Satire of Procedural Pulp
If the eyes are the windows to the soul then Rosamund Pike is blessed with peepholes to the abyss, and David Fincher was wise to cast her in his latest prestige pulp. Speaking during a press conference at the 52nd New York Film Festival, where Gone Girl was th...
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New York Film Festival Dispatch #1: “The Look of Silence”, “Two Days, One Night” and “Jauja”
The Look of Silence
If you didn’t get enough of Joshua Oppenheimer’s last film about the Indonesian genocide of suspected communists, he’s back with an equally unnerving sequel, The Look of Silence. This time, the director approaches the harrowing saga th...
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