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Film Review

Two Lovers

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Feb.09] :. A wall of family photos, glimpsed briefly in an early scene of Two Lovers, lays out Leonard's too conventional dilemma.

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Two Lovers: All Your Choices Are Bad Ones

by Chris Barsanti

[12.Feb.09] :. What James Gray bravely does in Two Lovers is return the idea of pain, and the threat of bad decisions, to the American film romance.

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The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview Feature

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: August 2008

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.08] :. Talk about a crowded schedule. There are more offerings scheduled this month than in the previous two combined.

The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview

Film DVD Review

The Architect

by David Masciotra

[23.Aug.07] :. Anthony LaPaglia delivers a brilliantly understated performance as a man who has the ability to build, but not maintain, and the desire to reconstruct, but not renovate.

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Infamous (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Oct.06] :. When Truman quite gleefully describes his plan to use 'fictional techniques' to tell his nonfiction story, to shape the Clutter murders as an emblem of cultural malaise, Nelle insists on a knowable distinction between fact and fiction.

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The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Nov.04] :. 'There are tears for things, there are tears of things, there are tears from things,' says Guy Maddin.

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The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.May.04] :. Guy Maddin's film is swirling with scraps of movie and other recent history.

Empire (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Dec.02] :. Of the many crazy clichés in Empire, Isabella Rossellini's big fat hair has to be the loony-tunesiest.