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Death and Despair: Dirk Bogarde, Unlucky in Love
Jeremy Carr on five interconnected films from the career of Dirk Bogarde.
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“Entertainment” Is One of the Year’s Best Films
The idea of the sad clown is as old as comedy itself, and yet it’d be too easy to classify Rick Alverson’s new film—which revolves around the existential journey of a standup performer—as just another in the long line of stories about depressed funnymen and th...
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Ramin Bahrani on “99 Homes” And Challenging Himself
American independent filmmaker Ramin Bahrani’s past works (Man Push Cart, Chop Shop, Goodbye Solo, etc.) show a keen eye for observing the social problems associated with capitalism. Iranian in origin and with an interest in Iranian cinema, Bahrani’s work show...
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“The Forbidden Room” Is A Freewheeling Achievement
Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson’s The Forbidden Room is a tribute to a film that never existed. More accurately, it is a supercut of various fictional films—a stitched-together collage of associative links and vague thematic consistency. From one point of view, th...
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Modern Love in “The Honeymoon Killers”
The Honeymoon Killers is the kind of title that hints at sensational thrills, a promise true crime movies usually fulfill. The genre enables audiences to engage in voyeuristic pleasures; it reminds them that the terrible scenes they are witnessing are not mere...
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“Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon” Is A Flavorless, Unintelligent Trek
Reason #275839 why Aaron Sorkin’s mercifully short-lived series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip didn’t work out was its unduly inflated sense of importance. Everyone within the show spoke of the titular comedy institution with a hushed reverence usually reserved...
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“Breathe” Is The New Classic Of Teen-Centric Cinema
Toxic friendships between teenage girls have given us some memorable cinema, from the sarcastic (Ghost World) to the cruel (The Craft) to the outright deadly (Heathers). If you believe Jennifer’s Body, hell is a teenage girl and two of them at war is enough to...
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The Divergent Career of Alex Ross Perry
Alex Ross Perry’s fourth film, the paranoid thriller Queen of Earth, marks a departure for the 31-year-old director, though in a sense he has been diverging from both his work and that of his peers from the start of his career. With its ambling photography and...
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“Mistress America” Is Fresh, Original, and Marvelous
In Mistress America, writers Noah Baumbach, who also directs, and Greta Gerwig, who also stars, have harmonized their distinct voices into something marvelous. Millennial communication patterns—a constant, rapid shuffle between angst, oversharing, self-mytholo...
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Streets, Studios, and Stages: The Music Videos of Jonathan Demme
In the opening seconds of Jonathan Demme’s music video for The Feelies’ song “Away,” the camera moves slowly around the band, as they begin the song’s soft, dreamy intro. Then “Away” begins in earnest: The Feelies’ two guitarists strum and slide smoothly over ...
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