Articles tagged "bob balaban"

TV Review

Recount

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.May.08] :. Recount doesn't quite argue that the system remains infinitely gameable for those who know it, those in power who wish to remain in power.

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Bob Balaban, behind the camera for HBO’s ‘Bernard and Doris’

by Luaine Lee [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[12.Feb.08] :. SANTA MONICA, Calif.—Actor Bob Balaban is a force to be reckoned with - all 5 foot 5 ¾ of him. Most people know him from his roles in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,”...

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Film Review

Dedication

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Aug.07] :. It's Henry's movie, and for all his eccentricities and fixations and rages, he's a very conventional man.

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When a film is remade in the U.S.A.

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[2.Aug.07] :. Catherine Zeta-Jones dons a crisp white apron, cinches it around her waist, and gets busy cooking up asparagus terrine, quail with truffle sauce, blood-red entrecote, and other signature dishes that...

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Film Review

No Reservations (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Jul.07] :. That No Reservations can't imagine an alternative life for Kate makes all the energetic food-loving seem a little sad -- more sublimation than revelation.

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Zeta-Jones and Eckhart dish about ‘No Reservations’

by Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[26.Jul.07] :. "Though there are times," she laughs, "when I just ... can't ... help but steal that last chicken nugget off their plate."

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Monkey Business (Part 3: July)

by Bill Gibron

[3.May.07] :. Finally, a month with only one remaining series contender. All wizard based Potter-y aside, this will be the most tenuous time for the business called show. After a strong start, the eccentric collection of entertainments here could make or break this potentially record shattering motion picture season.

 

Lady in the Water (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jul.06] :. Story's whiter-than-white skin, bloody cuts, color-shifting hair, and need to keep wet make her a bizarre amalgamation of fantasies, alternately "male" and "childish."

 

Capote (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Apr.06] :. As Miller and Kimmel finish one another's sentences and demonstrate a charming sort of sync, the artists here suggest how Capote came to be such a tight, complex, and elegant film.

 

Capote (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Oct.05] :. Capote reveals the dangers of journalism in search of authenticity and based in intimacy. It also reveals the monster Capote sees in himself -- or more accurately, the monster the movie sees him seeing.

 

HOPELESs Pictures

by Bill Gibron

[24.Aug.05] :. Spoofing celebrities is easy. Finding the humor in a pitch meeting may be a little more complicated.

 

A Mighty Wind (2003)

by Josh Jones

[24.Apr.03] :. In its focus on these reunited '60s folkies, 'Wind' engages in that most virulent form of nostalgia: '60s-itis.

 

Gosford Park (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Jun.02] :. It is clear about what it is, a study of affect that is also affected.

 

The Majestic (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Dec.01] :. PULL.

 

Ghost World (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

'Ghost World' is smart, sensitive, and insightful about the lunacy that constitutes adolescence, and never forgets how real and how complicated kids' feelings are.

 

Gosford Park (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

It is clear about what it is, a study of affect that is also affected.