The use of Beethoven’s Ninth is a tired idea. It was fresh 19 years ago when that famous Cliffhanger teaser used “Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor.” Echoing the use of Beethoven’s Ninth in the original Die Hard (’89) only emphasizes the fatigue factor.
Posted from Telluride on 9.1.23: The last time I bolted out of a theatre because a character had yanked or...
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Jordan Ruimy is reporting today what most of us have been presuming all along. One, widespread Stalinist obstinacy about Woody...
I’ve been moaning and groaning for weeks about the seemingly unfortunate fate of Tran Anh Hung’s The Pot au Feu,...