Articles tagged "david fincher"

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Which road will Oscar take? ‘Benjamin Button,’ ‘Slumdog’ travel on two distinct paths

by Duane Dudek [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)]

[16.Feb.09] :. New Orleans is 8,870 miles from Mumbai, India, as the crow flies. The Academy Award nominees for best picture set in those cities - “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and...

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‘Benjamin Button’ is Brilliant

by Bill Gibron

[25.Dec.08] :. David Fincher is a god. Not a lesser deity, mind you, or some manner of false filmmaking prophet. No, this inside outsider may have gotten his start in music videos, and suffered at the hands of a...

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Dec.08] :. It's an inelegant but provocative means to measure Benjamin and Daisy's ostensibly transcendent connection: as he grows young and she grows old, they share but a single moment when their bodies and visions and hopes can easily coincide.

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Zodiac

by Emma Simmonds

[15.Aug.07] :. Bonds are fleetingly forged then broken, comradeship and honour are largely absent and, like the Zodiac himself, everyone emerges as a rather lost and damaged soul.

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‘Zodiac’ filmmaker David Fincher recalls wave of panic

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[3.Mar.07] :. The phrase “From the director of `Seven’” conjures up a certain expectation, especially when it’s plastered on the posters for “Zodiac,” a movie about the...

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David Fincher talks ‘Zodiac’

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[2.Mar.07] :. “So, which side are you on? ” asks director David Fincher, beginning the interview with a question. “Which side of what?” “The length of the movie. Are you on the `too...

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Zodiac (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Mar.07] :. David Fincher's excellent new movie winds clues and pursuits into an intriguing, often witty mix of causes and effects. In so doing, it rejiggers the police procedural.

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Panic Room (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Sep.02] :. This 'Panic Room' DVD leaves you to figure the moves and angles.

 

Panic Room (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Mar.02] :. In lieu of plot or character, 'Panic Room' offers the house.

 

Fight Club (1999)

by Jonathan Beller and Rhonda Baughman

[14.Oct.99] :. Does capitalism have you by the balls? If you're feeling a little limp lately, a little flaccid, emasculated, or impotent, then David Fincher's Fight Club may just have your number. This film kicks butt, and in doing so it also manages to suggest that your need for it and for other butt-kicking films is a late capitalist symptom of contemporary psychosis.