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Film DVD Review

Last Chance Harvey

by Stephen Snart

[4.May.09] :. Seemingly designed for in-flight viewing, this film is the equivalent of a competently written paperback, or a leftover helping of Ma’s comfort food.

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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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Film Review

Last Chance Harvey

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Jan.09] :. Last Chance Harvey is a movie about starting over.

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TV DVD Review

The Anton Chekhov Collection

by Jennifer Kelly

[25.Sep.08] :. A superbly acted, exhaustively complete summary of the great Russian’s dramas that provides real depth of insight into the plays and their possibilities.

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Film DVD Review

Scenes of a Sexual Nature

by Jason Jones

[12.Aug.08] :. A more-or-less literal enactment of the commonplace activity of imagining the lives of people we pass each day.

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Film Review

Vanity Fair (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Sep.04] :. Ah, to be young, bright, and scheming in 19th-century Britain!"

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Cold Mountain: Collector’s Edition (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Jul.04] :. Anthony Minghella's image of the birds in snow articulates Cold Mountain's aesthetic and themes, its interest in collision and reverie, in nostalgia and resistance.

 

Cold Mountain (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Dec.03] :. The first scene in Cold Mountain is sensational and sickening, an apt introduction to what will be a Civil War saga.

 

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.'"

 

What a Girl Wants (2003)

by Robert Rue

[11.Apr.03] :. Daphne is cooler, thinner, and just plain hotter than her secretly envious rivals.

 

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.

 

Gosford Park (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

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

 

Wit

by Lesley Smith

In the end, 'Wit' may be remarkable not for what it is but merely for the fact of its existence -- a serious, quasi-intellectual drama filmed by two Oscar-winners miraculously commissioned by and shown on TV.

 

Gosford Park (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

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