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Wednesday, March 25 2009

Part 3: The Sixth Sense to Fight Club (August - October 1999)

Films that have left a lasting impression on their creators (M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Mendes, David Fincher) make up the majority of Part Three of our Films of 1999 overview.


Monday, February 9 2009

American Experience: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln tracks the converging paths of the president and his killer, then tracks and draws connections between their last journeys, in the forms of Lincoln's funeral train route and Booth's desperate efforts to escape.


Wednesday, September 24 2008

Married Life

Moving slowly and accompanied by a hushed Pierce Brosnan narration, the movie is buttoned-up to a fault, never closer than tongue-near-cheek.


Thursday, March 13 2008

Fast chat with ‘Married Life’ star Patricia Clarkson


Thursday, March 6 2008

Married Life

Richard's narration is exceptionally insidious, which makes Married Life at once fascinating and routine.


Friday, November 9 2007

Today’s foreign wars are Hollywood hell


Thursday, October 11 2007

A new script for Hollywood war movies


Friday, September 28 2007

The Kingdom

Boasting charismatic stars and a topical focus on terrorism, the film adds one more cagey detail -- a hint of moral challenge to its own thrills-and-chills violence.


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