The Venice Film Festival jury has given the Golden Lion to Jia Zhangke‘s Still Life — hah! — and not Stephen Frears ‘ The Queen or Emilio Estevez‘s Bobby . The latter two were named as the most likely Golden Lion winners in a recent Reuters story by Mike Collett-White and Silvia Aloisi…wrong! The Silver Lion for Best Director went to director Alain Resnais for Private Fears in Public Places , and a Silver Lion Revelation trophy went to Emanuele Crialese for Nuovomondo — Golden Door.
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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