Articles tagged "lili taylor"![]() Short Ends and LeaderThe Promotion (2008)by Bill Gibron[31.Aug.08] :. Someone once said that all men live lives of quiet desperation. For those in middle management, said anxiety can be anything but silent. It’s never the big picture issues - the purpose of their... ![]() Film DVD ReviewStarting Out in the Eveningby Kate Williams[19.May.08] :. A smart film that is ultimately undone by the director’s preening and self-conscious style. ![]() Film ReviewStarting Out in the Eveningby Cynthia Fuchs[27.Nov.07] :. It's an unusual, vaguely intellectual premise for a film, lacing emotional ambitions and betrayals through a literary framework. ![]() TV ReviewState of Mindby Cynthia Fuchs[13.Jul.07] :. At long last, Lifetime has discovered what's been missing from TV: Theresa Randle. ![]() NewsLili Taylor takes ‘indie’ to a new level - TVby Luaine Lee [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)][10.Jul.07] :. Actress Lili Taylor has made a career of confronting challenges. Once considered the queen of independent movies like “Short Cuts,” “Household Saints” and “The... ![]() Film ReviewThe Notorious Bettie Page (2006)by Cynthia Fuchs[14.Apr.06] :. Mary Harron's smart new movie is less about Bettie Page than the many forces that made her 'notorious,' the moral hypocrisies and sexual repressions that shaped the '50s and persist today. Short Cuts (1993)by Daniel Mudie Cunningham[14.Apr.05] :. Death, or that state 'beyond natural color', is Short Cuts' common denominator. The Weather Underground (2003)by Chris Elliot[14.Jun.04] :. Gaining resonance with today's 'war on terror,' The Weather Underground, recalls another unsettled social scene, during another unsettled period. A Slipping-Down Life (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[13.May.04] :. You're left wondering just what Evie sees in Drum, except that abstract backwardsness that she's inscribed in herself. Casa de los Babys (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[3.May.04] :. The movie, which focuses on a group of U.S. women arrived in an unidentified Latin American country to adopt children, is as much about cultural imperialism and racism as it is about women and babies. Rudy (Deluxe Edition) (1993)by David Leonard[21.Oct.03] :. The racialized ideology that informs Rudy is made more pronounced by the racial discourses of today's sports. Deadlineby Lesley SmithIn 'Deadline', Dick Wolf's new show for NBC, no one, least of all the self-satisfied Wallace Benton (played with plumy waspishness by Oliver Platt), seems to care a fig for the story. |
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