Articles tagged "jonathan rhys-meyers"

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Match Point (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Jan.06] :. Chris is fond of Enrico Caruso, whose voice 'expresses everything that's tragic about life,' one of these Allenish aphorisms that's probably true but just sounds trite.

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Alexander: Director’s Cut (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Aug.05] :. Oliver Stone calls his Alexander 'a new genre, a masculine-feminine action figure,' more like Monty Clift and James Dean than Russell Crowe.

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Alexander (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Nov.04] :. Though Olympias is unbeatably charismatic (and plain fun amid all the drearily inclined boys), the film takes a typically Stonian approach to the evil woman.

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I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Nov.04] :. For all the inevitability of Will's descent, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead is an almost perversely moving experience.

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I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Jul.04] :. Will (Clive Owen) is a menace, even to the bad guys.

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Bend It Like Beckham (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Sep.03] :. Indian and British, white and brown and black, queer and straight. It's all in the mix.

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Bend It Like Beckham (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Mar.03] :. The girls in 'Bend It Like Beckham' have grown up crossing cultural borders on a daily basis, and see such negotiations as nothing special.

Ride with the Devil (1999)

by Todd R. Ramlow

Ride with the Devil is essentially two films in one. The first is a story of loyalty - to family, community, and nation - tested in the social and political upheavals of civil war. The second is a story of male bonding and love in a homosocial order, the negotiation of male-male desire, and male domestication, all triangulated and enabled through the body of a woman.