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“Youth” Leaves a Bland Aftertaste
Considering its talent, lush beauty, and quietly simmering passion, Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth leaves a rather bland aftertaste. The artful film aims to be an exercise on aging and the diminishing currency of self-worth over time. Yet, its ideas are insinuated a...
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Spotlight on Fandor: “The Deep Blue Sea”
Terence Davies’s films function so completely as works of personal memory that the director’s gift for vividly detailed period recreation turns history itself into mere context for a life lived. This is especially true of the autobiographical first phase of hi...
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Top 10 Romantic Fantasy Films
As anyone who has watched nearly any animated Disney film knows, romance and fantasy fit splendidly together. The dizzying rapture of love manifests physically in elements that are very much not of this world. It becomes at once familiar and strange, frighteni...
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Oscar Talk: Nomination Eve
Writers Andreas Stoehr and Russell Hainline discuss the Academy Awards in anticipation of tomorrow's nomination announcements.
Andreas: It's here! The Christmas Eve of Oscar season is here, that most magical and meaningless night of the moviegoing year. It'...
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