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Wednesday, January 9 2008

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female

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.


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Friday, June 18 2010

'Ondine': Myths, Wishes, and Stories

Ondine is a lovely, low-key surprise.


Friday, September 14 2007

The Brave One

For all the hubbub about the sensational girl shooter, The Brave One is almost more interesting for its flaws and omissions.


Friday, December 16 2005

Breakfast on Pluto (2005)

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.


Monday, August 18 2003

The Good Thief (2003)

'I wanted to create a world that doesn't quite exist, you know, a world of nighttime clubs and nighttime criminality.'"


Thursday, April 17 2003

The Good Thief (2003)

Doubles all stakes of the original film, and more elaborately, of the remaking process.


News

Monday, September 17 2007

Jodie Foster explains why her new movie is 'subversive'

That's her word, not ours. Sitting in a posh suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel over a lunch of smoked salmon and blinis, the two-time…


Thursday, September 6 2007

Woman with gun: Jodie Foster in 'The Brave One'

Jodie Foster is in Queensland, Australia, on the phone, in a room looking over the ocean. It's early morning, and a storm is blowing. "There's…


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