“People talk about this grand, epic quality in [David] Lean‘s films, but I love them because they are pure. Clean, simple — even minimalist. He never uses anything he doesn’t need, and, like the match and the sunrise, it encapsulates more than a million words.
“No one else comes close, but it gives me something to aspire to.” — Atonement director Joe Wright writing yesterday (6.5) in the Times Online on the occasion of a British Film Institute tribute.
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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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