Articles tagged "ethan hawke"

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Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

by Matthew Sorrento

[5.Jun.08] :. What a quirky pair of brothers do Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke make.

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Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Oct.07] :. Family tensions run high throughout Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.

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The Hottest State

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.Aug.07] :. For a film set mostly inside one character's head, The Hottest State spends a lot of time on the road.

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Lord of War (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Sep.05] :. As Yuri plainly gets off on risk, he's also broadly representative of cavalier attitudes toward risk concerning vulnerable individuals and communities.

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Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jan.05] :. What still works is the edgy distrust-into-respect that develops between the killer and the cop.

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Before Sunset (2004)

by Michael Healey

[2.Jul.04] :. Before Sunset illustrates the beautiful and frustrating complexity of human hearts seeking love and meaning in a life we know to be transient.

Taking Lives (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Mar.04] :. In Taking Lives, the enigmatic Illeana (Angelina Jolie) is introduced indirectly.

Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke

by Nikki Tranter

[16.Sep.02] :. Though Hawke often expertly captures some charming and lush moments, 'Ash Wednesday' is not supposed to be a great work of literary genius (as some of his 'But, he's a Hollywood pretty boy!' detractors seem to think), just an uncomplicated tale of the tribulations of young people in love. Objective achieved.

Waking Life (2001)

by Ben Varkentine

Throughout Waking Life, the pictures rarely, if ever, stop moving, flowing, breathing -- attention has been paid to the animated environments, not just the characters in the foreground.

Waking Life (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Interpolations Waking Life begins with two kids (Trevor Jack Brooks and Lorelei Linklater, daughter of the film’s director Richard Linklater) playing a paper hand-puzzle game....

Tape (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

What it gets you thinking about, while you watch it and for some time afterwards, is whether anyone can ever know what has 'happened,' and more disturbingly, how the tendency to want such knowledge can be violent.

Training Day (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Plausibility is plainly not Training Day's concern. It's more interested in images and ideas than practicalities.

Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)

by Renee Scolaro Rathke

Snow falling on cedars. The image is a beautiful one and director Scott Hicks and director of photography Robert Richardson certainly work it in their new film, which offers repeated tableaux of the...

Hamlet (2000)

by Beth Armitage

Hamlet often speaks in a voice-over or directly to the video camera that he is rarely without. Sometimes we see the results of these 'video diaries' as he rewatches them on his monitor -- his own Real World confessional.

Hamlet (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

I confess to feeling a certain dread when I first heard that Ethan ('I have this planet of regret') Hawke was starring in Michael Almereyda's updated-and-abbreviated Hamlet.