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“Clouds of Sils Maria”
“Thinking about a text is different than living it.” Internationally renowned European movie star Maria Enders, portrayed by internationally renowned European movie star Juliette Binoche, speaks these words to her personal assistant Valentine (Kristen Stewart,...
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“Still Alice”
I’ve been hearing for a while now that it’s Julianne Moore’s year. If you ask me, every year should be Julianne Moore’s year, but nevertheless, this is the conventional wisdom being passed around by those who make their living spending an unseemly amount of ti...
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“Camp X-Ray”
Putting aside Prince of Persia, in which Jake Gyllenhaal, one of America’s whitest actors, played Persian royalty, Hollywood has rarely shown us a Middle Eastern man who is not an imminent threat. When it does, there is so much self-conscious winking involved ...
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TIFF Review: “Clouds of Sils Maria” is Oddly Worth Remembering, But Not Watching
If there is any merit to Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria it’s that it serves the memory in a finer way than it does the eye. Asked to take on a revival of the play that made her famous as a youth, Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) must take on the role opp...
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TIFF Dispatch #1: “Foxcatcher”, “Clouds of Sils Maria”, and “Maps to the Stars”
So many films—regardless of their genre or origin—deal with the psychology of interpersonal discord that it’s scarcely worth mentioning them as some kind of classifiable phenomenon. But when you watch a variety of films that have little to do with each other—f...
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Vampire 3.0: How Jim Jarmusch Evolves The Bloodsuckers
Only Lovers Left Alive is Jim Jarmusch' antidote to the declining prestige of the vampire image.
In Jarmusch' latest film a whole army of stars decides to test-ride immortality. However, even though Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, and John Hu...
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Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart together again for “American Ultra”
Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart's last film together was the surprisingly entertaining and not at all what the ads said it would be Adventureland, where Eisenberg played that nerdy,verbose type he's honed to a science and Stewart demonstrated that her affe...
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Shelf Life: Adventureland
Shelf Life is a weekly feature that selects a film currently on DVD/Blu-Ray for review.
Of all the R-rated but sentimental comedies to come out of Judd Apatow’s immense talent pool, Greg Mottola’s 2009 Adventureland may be the least raunchy but also the mos...
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