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Grey Gardens

by Chris Barsanti

[20.Apr.09] :. The new Grey Gardens is safe, providing a dash of self-reflexivity, but wasting more opportunities than it takes.

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Grey Gardens/ The Beales of Grey Gardens (1975)

by Bill Gibron

[18.Apr.09] :. In celebration of the premiere of HBO's stellar TV movie on the Beales, SE&L brings you this review of the original documentaries that started it all.

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The colorful story behind ‘Grey Gardens’ comes alive on HBO

by Diane Werts [Newsday (MCT)]

[15.Apr.09] :. What is, is never the whole story. What made it that way - that’s where deeper fascination lies. Especially when it’s as stranger-than-fiction bizarre as Little Edie, Big Edie and their...

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In ‘Grey Gardens,’ Drew Barrymore as we’ve never seen her before

by Neal Justin [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[13.Apr.09] :. For years, you’ve been crushing on Drew Barrymore. The sugar-and-spice personality, the infectious giggle, the crinkly eyes, the way you want to buy her cotton candy after she kicks tail. But...

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PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own Feature

Part 3: The Stellar ‘70s

by PopMatters Staff

[20.Jun.07] :. When it comes to post-modern moviemaking, everyone stereotypes the Me Decade as the genre's defining moment. In this case -- as illustrated by the 10 films that represent it -- the categorization is more than accurate.

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Broadway honors its finest Sunday with the Tony Awards

by Howard Shapiro [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[10.Jun.07] :. The most coveted prize on Broadway? For a producer, it’s you in a paid seat, and for just about everyone else, it’s a Tony Award. The producers are already celebrating another...

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Grey Gardens / Salesman - PopMatters Film Review )

by David Sanjek

[11.Apr.02] :. What makes the Maysles' work special lies in how they manage, by focusing so intently on their subjects, to elicit a body of information that the audience is compelled to examine for its possible meaning.