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How to play at being a villain: Bardem, Ledger reignite media interest in craft of acting

by Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)]

[14.Aug.08] :. The verdict is nearly unanimous: As the Joker in “The Dark Knight,” Heath Ledger gives a great performance. But what exactly does that mean? As we watch a movie, the mysterious alchemy...

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There Will Be Blood

by Jesse Hassenger

[8.Apr.08] :. However fictional, Daniel Plainview is like history come to life -- more Frankenstein's monster than wax doll.

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There will be confusion: Deliberately vague films leave critic cold

by Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[24.Feb.08] :. Walking out of a press screening of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” in early November, I turned to a fellow critic in the hopes that he might explain a plot point that...

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A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007.

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Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007.

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To his latest director, Daniel Day-Lewis is ‘the man’

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[4.Jan.08] :. “Maybe it’s presumptuous to say this, but from a director’s point of view he’s the Holy Grail of actors, isn’t he? At least he always was to me. Like, `that’s the...

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There Will Be Blood

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Jan.08] :. Land, oil, blood. There will be lots of all in Paul Thomas Anderson's stunning new movie.

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Daniel Day-Lewis blazes another trail in ‘There Will Be Blood’

by Gene Seymour [Newsday (MCT)]

[2.Jan.08] :. NEW YORK—The conversation has so far been easygoing and amiable. It’s only when the interviewer brings up the subject of shoemaking that his subject’s eyes narrow and his voice,...

 

Pop culture Q&A: Day-Lewis returns to the big screen

by Rich Heldenfels [Akron Beacon Journal (MCT)]

[30.Oct.07] :. Q: It seems that whenever a fantastic movie like “Last of the Mohicans” is shown on TV, the concentration is on Madeleine Stowe. Please have some info and an update on Daniel...

 

The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Mar.05] :. They inhabit an ideal world, located, a title helpfully informs you, on an isolated island off the Eastern Coast of the United States, 1986. They coo and cuddle, he coughs ominously, and they seem momentarily content, absorbed in one another. And then comes trouble.

 

Gangs of New York (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Dec.02] :. Daniel Day-Lewis wears a tall stovepipe hat in Martin Scorsese's long-awaited Gangs of New York.