HE’s first two Sundance 2012 films will be Kieran Darcy-Smith and Felicity Price’s Wish You Were Here, which a buyer friend calls “a neat little Australian noir,” tonight at 6:30 pm, and then a p & i screening of Lauren Greenfield‘s The Queen of Versailles, a documentary about tasteless grandiosity by nouveau-riche types who, one gathers, have embraced a totally anti-Zen approach to life.
To my great surprise and delight, Christy Hall‘s Daddio, which I was remiss in not seeing during last year’s Telluride...
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7:45 pm: Okay, the initial light-hearted section (repartee, wedding, hospital, afterlife Joey Pants, healthy diet) was enjoyable, but Jesus, when...
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It took me a full month to see Wes Ball and Josh Friedman‘s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes...
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Unless Part Two of Kevin Costner‘s Horizon (Warner Bros., 8.16) somehow improves upon the sluggish initial installment and delivers something...
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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Posted on 11.27.23: “One thing that’s always bothered me about Virginia Wolff is that George and Martha’s young guests —...
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