Articles tagged "jonathan demme"

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Camera Trick Undermines ‘Rachel’‘s Realism

by Bill Gibron

[24.Oct.08] :. It’s a staple of the cinematic form, drama’s go-to position when anything outside biology becomes unobtainable. In fact it’s such a stalwart that the independent movement has been...

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Fast chat with ‘Rachel Getting Married’ director Jonathan Demme

by Lewis Beale [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[16.Oct.08] :. Jonathan Demme has long had one of the most interesting careers in the film business. An Oscar-winning director (“The Silence of the Lambs”), the 64-year-old Demme has also enjoyed...

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Film Review

Rachel Getting Married

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Oct.08] :. In Rachel Getting Married, Kym and Rachel's relationship is routinely rocky, abetted by what's unspoken by everyone else.

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Jimmy Carter Man from Plains

by George Tiller

[14.Apr.08] :. The question arises: if Carter can’t criticize Israel, then who can? Apparently the answer is no one.

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Jimmy Carter Man from Plains

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Oct.07] :. He's not like Bill Clinton, he's not a rock star. He is instead a politician and a diplomat, facing rejection and resentment as well as respect, absorbing all responses as part of an ongoing, crucial "conversation".

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The Cut-Out Bin Feature

Robyn Hitchcock: Storefront Hitchcock / Jewels for Sophia

by Michael Keefe

[2.Aug.07] :. These reissues of two late '90s Robyn Hitchcock albums find the surrealist singer-songwriter in prime form.

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Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006)

by Wayne Robins

[12.Jun.06] :. Together, Neil Young and Jonathan Demme make the graying of the quintessential baby boom musician a triumph to be celebrated.

 

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Dec.04] :. Demme's movie reasserts that the fabled U.S. political landscape isn't transparent or democratic, but instead, corrupted by the individuals who manage it.

 

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Jul.04] :. The Manchurian Candidate draws a line between the corporation and the government, sustaining a hope that the U.S. system might be salvaged by an honestly free election.

 

The Agronomist (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Apr.04] :. Jonathan Demme's documentary spends less energy lamenting or even raging than it does extolling the vitality and resilience of its subject.

 

The Truth About Charlie (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.Oct.02] :. It conjures a perverse and giddy grace.

 

Something Wild (1986/2001)

by David Sanjek

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