Articles tagged "jeremy davies"

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Has TV lost its nerve? Why engrossing dramas keep getting kicked off the island

by Maureen Ryan [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[6.Mar.09] :. Launching a broadly successful TV show is possible. No, really, it is. We hear a lot about the fractured media environment, and most of us - network suits and civilians alike - have accepted the...

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TV Review

Lost: Season Five Premiere

by Daynah Burnett

[28.Jan.09] :. As the fifth season begins, the structural fluidity that makes Lost so exciting and unusual has been pushed to the forefront. That's right: we're officially talking time travel.

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Film DVD Review

Rescue Dawn

by Jack Patrick Rodgers

[18.Dec.07] :. Werner Herzog has made a career out of profiling men with impossible dreams who end up fighting against nature and society to make them a reality.

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Short Ends and Leader

Short Cuts - In Theaters: Rescue Dawn (2006)

by Bill Gibron

[28.Jul.07] :. In auteur/artist Werner Herzog’s world, there are only two major conflicts – man vs. nature, and man vs. his own nature. Such a philosophy encapsulates almost every kind of interaction...

Short Ends and Leader

 
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Film Review

Rescue Dawn (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jul.07] :. Dieter's dedication grants him passion and strength, but the film never lets you forget the paradox he lives, his illicit status and the fact that "America" cannot rescue him.

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The PopMatters Summer 2007 Movie Preview Feature

Monkey Business (Part 3: July)

by Bill Gibron

[3.May.07] :. Finally, a month with only one remaining series contender. All wizard based Potter-y aside, this will be the most tenuous time for the business called show. After a strong start, the eccentric collection of entertainments here could make or break this potentially record shattering motion picture season.

The PopMatters Summer 2007 Movie Preview

 

Dogville (2003)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[15.Apr.04] :. The accusation that the film is 'anti-American' says less about Von Trier than it does about the American psyche.

 

Teknolust (2002)

by Daniel Mudie Cunningham

[4.Mar.04] :. Tilda Swinton is perfectly suited to Leeson's cyberfeminist project.

 

Solaris (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Jul.03] :. 'The one thing you'll see as you watch the film, what you'll take note of, is how still it is.'"

 

Solaris (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Nov.02] :. The liveliest moments in Steven Soderbergh's Solaris belong to Jeremy Davies' hands.

 

Secretary (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Sep.02] :. Secretary is about anxiety, depression, the inability to communicate.

 

CQ (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.May.02] :. The subject of CQ is Paul, artist, coffee-drinker, American in Paris.

 

Up at the Villa (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

What were they thinking? In Up at the Villa, Sean Penn plays a wealthy American rapscallion tearing around 1938’s Europe, arching his eyebrow by way of seducing rich ladies. This would...