Articles tagged "ed harris"

Column: The Box Office Belletrist

Woolf at the Door

by Jennifer Makowsky

[1.Mar.09] :. Both Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Michael Cunningham's The Hours offer an illuminating look at the choices we make, the roles we play, and the hours that hinge our lives together.

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Column: Deconstruction Zone

Conversing with Rudy Wurlitzer: ‘A Beaten-up Old Scribbler’

by Rodger Jacobs

[6.Feb.09] :. My conversations with Rudy Wurlitzer were not unlike a road journey itself with plenty of unplanned side trips along the way.

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Short Ends and Leader

Serious Flaw Threatens ‘Appaloosa’s’ Excellence

by Bill Gibron

[2.Oct.08] :. When the Western died, it did so because of two distinct reasons. First, the media had so saturated the audience with as many warmed over oaters as possible that even fervent devotees screamed...

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Film Review

Appaloosa

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Oct.08] :. Men are weathered in Appaloosa, a one-saloon town in 1882's New Mexico Territory.

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

by Bill Gibron

[9.Sep.08] :. From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

Film DVD Review

Cleaner

by Jesse Hassenger

[2.Jun.08] :. Director Harlin's cinematic GPA constantly dips over and under the line between B-movie bliss and C-movie oblivion.

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Walker

by Matt Mazur

[21.Feb.08] :. A surrealist satire of thematically complicated scenes that mix political intrigues, sexual humiliation, religion, and fanaticism.

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.

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the most sweetly nuanced performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh's career to Cate Blanchett's revelatory portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the women of 2007 were stellar.

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.

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Dec.07] :. The primary draw in the National Treasures is Nic Cage, odd and spasmodic, undeniably charismatic.

Ben Affleck directs new movie rather than stars in it

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[19.Oct.07] :. When Ben Affleck took the recommendation of several friends and read Dennis Lehane’s novel “Gone Baby Gone,” he immediately started thinking about adapting it into a film. He just...

The up-and-coming Affleck: younger brother Casey, in 2 new films

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[19.Oct.07] :. TORONTO—Don’t underestimate Casey Affleck, the reedy-voiced, baby-faced actor, who is younger brother to Ben. Like the character he plays in “Gone Baby Gone”—the...

Gone Baby Gone

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Oct.07] :. Part noir, part moralizing, and part urban-malaisey, the movie offers an assembly of seedy sorts who make Patrick's quest look increasingly hopeless but also ineffably gallant.

Copying Beethoven (2006)

by Matt Mazur

[20.Apr.07] :. While Copying Beethoven is a technically well-made, good-looking film, there doesn't seem to be any true soul present.

Copying Beethoven (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Nov.06] :. Ed Harris is inspired, inventive and nuanced. At times he appears to be performing in another movie, the better one that might have been.

A History of Violence (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Sep.05] :. This slippage between myth and realism, or maybe expectation and consummation, is precisely the genius of A History of Violence.

The Truman Show: Special Edition (1998)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Aug.05] :. You want the happy ending and Truman's self-assertion, even if that desire is shaped by those ideologies and ideals marketed by both Truman Shows.

The Human Stain (2003)

by Philip Booth

[10.Nov.03] :. All of these circumstances amplify the irony of Silk's tragic downfall, stemming from his own Achilles' heel.

Radio (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Oct.03] :. The white father-black son relationship is initiated by the white man's need for redemption.

Buffalo Soldiers (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Aug.03] :. The soldiers rebel in trivial but telling ways, more often than not imitating the very systems they think they're bucking.

The Hours (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Jul.03] :. 'What I learned seeing the movie is that yes, you do lose that ability to go into people's minds, but you gain Meryl Streep's ability to separate an egg, in a way that tells you everything you need to know about who that person is at that point.'"

The Hours (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Jan.03] :. The women are also functions of a coherent narrative, made comprehensible as embodiments of historical patterns.

The Third Miracle (1999)

by Renee Scolaro Rathke

The production notes for The Third Miracle tout it as “a provocative and powerful mystery about a priest who, while investigating the life of a possible American saint, faces temptations...

Pollock (2000)

by Kevin Devine

This is the tragedy and romanticized allure of Jackson Pollock, the man: he grew physically, he grew creatively, but he never grew up emotionally.

Pollock (2000)

by Todd R. Ramlow

Where the story of Pollock's life gets, at least to me, most interesting, and where the film 'Pollock' becomes most engaging, is in the connected story of the artist's wife, Lee Krasner.

Enemy at the Gates (2001)

by Mike Ward

This is Enemy at the Gates's most elegant theme, one that its often heavy-handed melodrama almost but not quite diminishes: that to be observed is to die, but to be invisible and quiet as the dead may allow you to survive.

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

by Lesley Smith

A Beautiful Mind idealizes mental illness as spectacle, a feel-good gladiatorial games of the psyche where the human spirits always triumphs and love always blooms.