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I'm Not There for the Answers

Watching Todd Hayne’s “I’m Not There” brought a strange kind of joy to my soul when I saw it three days ago. For the first time, I really understood what my Uncle John was telling me about whenever he talked about Bob Dylan. Even when we walked out of “Walk Hard” back over Christmas (a … Continue reading

Second-Guessing Kurosawa

I know I’ve been bleating on about remakes and reduxes for the past few articles but, seeing as it’s Sunday night, I thought I’d round out the week on the theme. When thinking on the subject yesterday, another horrible prospect reappeared in my mind. The Weinstein Company seems determined to get another remake of Seven … Continue reading

What Ever Happened To…

As the old adage in Hollywood goes, “You’re only as good as your last movie.”  It’s a sad, harsh reality that plenty of actors are forced to contend with.  Some are deserving of what comes their way, others not so much.  Because of this, I frequently catch myself thinking about films that helped shape who … Continue reading

BENICIO TRIUMPHS, BUT CANTET CARRIES CANNES

It’s a decision guaranteed to drive Jeffrey Wells to prose-sputtering fulmination: Laurent Cantet’s docudrama The Class has outmaneuvered Steven Soderbergh’s four-hour, two-part epic Che for the Palme d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. The Class was the final in-competition film to screen (often an advantageous position as far as the top awards are concerned), … Continue reading