Articles tagged "richard gere"

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Amelia dir. Mira Nair (new film / trailer)

by Eleanore Catolico

[9.Oct.09] :. The legacy of iconic pilot Amelia Earhart still sparks curiosity today. Amelia Earhart is now the subject of a new biopic simply entitled, Amelia, starring Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, and Ewan...

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

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These ‘Nights’ are Nauseating

by Bill Gibron

[26.Sep.08] :. Chemistry is the key to a good onscreen romance. Remove this vital cog, and the entire cinematic machine sputters and dies, right? Well, that’s only partially true. One assumes that a...

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Film Review

Nights in Rodanthe

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Sep.08] :. In an alternative universe, Jean (Viola Davis) does have a story -- one that you'd rather be seeing as Nights in Rodanthe descends into mundane melodrama.

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

by Bill Gibron

[9.Sep.08] :. From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

Column: Pop Goes Philosophy

I’m Not There, and Neither Are You

by George Reisch, Peter Vernezze and Paul Lulewicz

[9.Sep.08] :. The Bob Dylan film, I’m Not There, shows that the main puzzle behind pop music’s most enigmatic personality resides right here, within us all.

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A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007.

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the most sweetly nuanced performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh's career to Cate Blanchett's revelatory portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the women of 2007 were stellar.

Days of Heaven

by Brian Holcomb

[20.Dec.07] :. Malick puts the visual and aural emphasis on a vast, natural world that would be nothing more than a backdrop to the human story for most filmmakers, creating a breathtaking visual experience.

Director Todd Haynes rediscovers Bob Dylan

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[26.Nov.07] :. NEW YORK—It was in the year 2000 that filmmaker Todd Haynes rediscovered Bob Dylan all over again. “I had always admired Dylan—I was a fan in high school—but then I kind of...

The Hoax

by Matt Mazur

[15.Nov.07] :. The film does not shy away from the innate unlikability of its leading man and it also explores, cannily, the damage one person’s dishonesty can inflict upon everyone around them.

The Hunting Party

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Sep.07] :. The sidetracking -- the lapses into corruption, black humor, and sarcasm -- all this is to be expected when your life is on the line so incessantly.

Richard Gere scams in ‘The Hoax’

by Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[6.Apr.07] :. In his new film “The Hoax,” Richard Gere does a lot of fast-talking. As Clifford Irving, one of the most notorious scam artists the last century ever produced, Gere—wearing a bit of...

The Hoax (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Apr.07] :. Even as The Hoax works to wring emotional consequence from its many layers of lies, you're hard-pressed to believe it.

Days of Heaven (1978)

by Michael Buening

[18.Apr.06] :. Terrence Malick's 1978 film leaves you with the ache of paradise briefly felt and then remembered.

Bee Season (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Apr.06] :. Suffused with loss and longing, Bee Season is often graceful and moving.

Bee Season (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Nov.05] :. Words are mystical, magical, and wholly material in Bee Season.

Shall We Dance? (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Feb.05] :. 'The fact is,' says director Peter Chelsom, 'I was very, very wary about remaking such a perfect original.'"

Shall We Dance? (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Oct.04] :. Paulina is not only gorgeous, athletic, and lithe, she's also in need of solace.

Chicago (2002)

by Lesley Smith

[26.Dec.02] :. Watching Chicago is rather like watching a shot-for-TV music video by a neophyte director projected without thought or re-cutting straight to a movie screen.

Unfaithful (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.May.02] :. Unfaithful examines the trouble men get into when women behave too passionately.

The Mothman Prophecies (2002)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[24.Jan.02] :. As John (Richard Gere) begins to question his own journalistic rigor and even his sanity, a number of inconsistencies in the stories of the mothman crop up.

Runaway Bride (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

I worry about Julia Roberts. I know I don't need to but still, I feel like I can't help it. It's not because she's a particularly convincing performer on or off screen, though she does look distressed or vulnerable much of the time. It's not because the promoters for her latest movie, Runaway Bride, have been running ads with the creepiest stalker song ever made, the Police's Every Breath You Take.

Dr. T & The Women (2000)

by Mike Ward

We're stuck, 'Dr. T & The Women' seems to say. Men and women: this is simply how we are.

Autumn in New York (2000)

by Anne Daugherty

While watching Autumn in New York, I was struck by its parallel to the Clinton-Lewinsky business. There are superficial similarities, especially in the lead players — a powerful 50-ish...

Autumn in New York (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Everyone in the film can see that pairing a 48-year-old womanizer with a 22-year-old girl dying from a sketchy illness 'of the heart' is lame, not to mention derivative, unpleasant, and pathetic.