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Now Playing: “War Dogs”
Vikram Murthi takes aim at the new war-torn satire "War Dogs," from director Todd Phillips.
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Why Long-Take Cinema Should Do More Than Experiment
Kenji Fujishima writes about the recent trend of long-takes in movies such as "Too Late" and "The Revenant."
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Chaos and Conviction: “King of New York” At 25
Released in the same year as Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas and Joel and Ethan Coen’s Miller’s Crossing, Abel Ferrara’s King of New York has shamefully slipped through the cracks when it comes to charting and discussing great early-1990s crime films. While compa...
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“That’s Italian!”: On the 25th Anniversary of “GoodFellas”
I was fifteen years old on September 21st, 1990 – the day Martin Scorsese’s GoodFellas opened in theatres -- and a full two carloads of us had negotiated the necessary curfew extensions to go see a 10:30 PM show at the Showcase multiplex in Revere, a suburb ju...
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TIFF Review: “Legend”
The Kray brothers enjoy a special place in British history as the notorious gangsters who controlled East End London in the 1960s, and in Brian Helgeland's Legend, the twin brothers are played by the beautiful and weird Tom Hardy twice over. He brings his odd ...
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Perfect Pesci: The Best Performances
Joe motherflippin* Pesci, one of America’s greatest living actors, and the Baby Boomer's answer to James Cagney, has a strange and wonderful résumé, and he was born today in 1943. At the front of mind are his collaborations with Scorsese and De Niro or the int...
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How We Fell In Love With the Movies
'Tis the day of love, this February 14th, and thus we'll all be focusing on the loves that make our lives worth while, whether they exist or not. But no matter how many times your heart is broken by another person, you could at least always count on great movi...
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‘The Wolf of Wall Street’: Sex, Lies, and Lemons
Martin Scorsese’s pictures wade through the darkness of the human soul, but rarely has his viewpoint been as bleak – as hopeless, really – as it is in The Wolf of Wall Street. The man, one of the American cinema’s living national treasures, has built a cinemat...
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Birthday Wishes: Martin Scorsese Is 71 Today
The one and only Marty Scorsese (I can call him Marty) is 71 today. Despite being one of American cinema's most legendary directors, Scorsese didn't win a Best Director Oscar until 2006's The Departed. Some of his most acclaimed films are Taxi Driver (1976), G...
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‘Exit Elena’ A Brilliant, Deceptively Simple Portrait of Multi-Generational Malaise
For a stretch, Exit Elena is by all appearances an unassuming micro-scale drama about a young nurse named Elena (Kia Davis) who takes a job in the Boston suburbs as a live-in aide. While caring for the sweet, elderly Florence (Gert O’Connell), Elena spends eve...
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