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At Toronto fest, 2 directors talk about their New York-based films

by Howard Gensler [Philadelphia Daily News (MCT)]

[17.Sep.07] :. TORONTO—New York, New York, it’s a helluva town. Two films at the Toronto International Film Festival take two different bites of the Big Apple, but both show it to be a violent, seedy...

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The Brave One

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Sep.07] :. For all the hubbub about the sensational girl shooter, The Brave One is almost more interesting for its flaws and omissions.

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Breakfast on Pluto (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Dec.05] :. As tends to happen in Neil Jordan's films about spirited outsiders, Kitten's sense of limbo doesn't limit him as much it inspires him to resist expectations.

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The Good Thief (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Aug.03] :. 'I wanted to create a world that doesn't quite exist, you know, a world of nighttime clubs and nighttime criminality.'"

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The Good Thief (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Apr.03] :. Doubles all stakes of the original film, and more elaborately, of the remaking process.

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The End of the Affair (1999)

by jserpico

This is a diary of hate, reads Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes) aloud as he simultaneously types these same words onto a page. Contrary to what you might expect following such a declaration, however, there is no violent emotion displayed in this introductory scene; no screaming, no violence, no melodrama.

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The End of the Affair (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

On its surface, Neil Jordan's film of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair is about love. In particular, it appears to be about heterosexual love, or maybe the similarities and disjunctions between spiritual and physical manifestations of such love.

 
 
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