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...today in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and in other cities next week, is a sweet, very funny, volcanically romantic comedy-drama about relationships in post-9/11 New York City. It could slip comfily into any slot at the Sundance Film Festival, or the art-house screen at your local multiplex, except for one thing: it has lots of explicit, hard-core...
...late '60s and early '70s, as American directors like Arthur Penn (in Bonnie and Clyde) and Sam Peckinpah (in everything) pioneered the use of gaudy, picturesque images of violence, European directors like Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris) and Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses) made the screen a place where the intimacies of adult couples could be dramatized...
...song. Where is the casual violence? The chaos? The attack on everything and anything civilized? Where is the condensed 100-year musical history of the South? Nowhere to be found. I expected bodies on the floor and uncontrollable balling on a legendary scale. I expected an unstoppable force of screen-pimping that would put D’Angelo to shame. Instead, the greatest four-and-a-half minutes in crossover hip-hop since “Walk This Way” has been mutated into an alternate universe McDonald’s commercial. Now when Thicke wails his head...
...finally grown up. Damon and D-Cap play two sides of the same coin. Though they never meet until the film’s climax, it’s well worth the wait. Seeing two of today’s most accomplished and talented actors together on the silver screen will take your breath away. It’s our generation’s equivalent of “Heat”’s Pacino and De Niro explosive match-up.From the script to the cast to the film’s soundtrack, which features the Stones?...
...synopsize—but, unlike the pleasantly rambling street philosophers who populate Richard Linklater’s films, Bujalski’s characters speak with the faltering cadence of everyday life.It evokes cinema verite, populated by characters who continue to exist even after the few moments they spend on-screen. There is a veneer of calmness that belies a deep anxiety expressed in the jittery camerawork. As in everyday interactions, the import of the film lies in its subtler implications. Bujalski’s style can make his films difficult, but for loyalists, it’s part...