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Sixty years have passed since the last American Yiddish talkie, Catskill Honeymoon, enjoyed a premiere theatrical run, and although a few postmodern (or post-Yiddish) examples have bloomed there's been nothing like Eve Annenberg's rambunctious wild flower Romeo and Juliet in…
by J. Hoberman
May 30, 2012
Tags: Film, Film, Eve Annenberg, William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet in Yiddish, Brooklyn (New York City)
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A 157-minute police procedural, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia elevates Turkey's leading filmmaker, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, to a new level of achievement. Like Ceylan's earlier films, it's an impeccably beautiful representation of the everyday — as demonstrated by the…
by J. Hoberman
February 8, 2012
Tags: Film, Film, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
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As stripped down and propulsive as its robotic title, Drive is the most "American" movie yet by Danish genre director Nicolas Winding Refn. The film is a sleek, tense piece of work that, as a vehicle for Ryan Gosling, has…
by J. Hoberman
January 11, 2012
Tags: Night&Day, Highlights, Ryan Gosling, Drive (Movie), Nicolas Winding Refn, Bronson (Movie), Roxie Theater
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Set in a freeze-your-blood land of streamlined chrome and steely dawns, David Fincher's Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, a malevolent remake of the 2009 Swedish blockbuster directed by Niels Arden Oplev from Stieg Larsson's thriller, follows a cold trail of…
by J. Hoberman
December 21, 2011
Tags: Film, Film, David Fincher, Lisbeth Salander, Mikael Blomkvist, Rooney Mara
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David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method is at once a lucid movie of ideas, a compelling narrative, and a splendidly acted love story involving Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender), Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), and Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), the near-forgotten patient-turned-disciple who…
by J. Hoberman
December 14, 2011
Tags: Night&Day, Highlights, Sabina Spielrein, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, David Cronenberg, Embarcadero Center Cinema
Film,
David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method is at once a lucid movie of ideas, a compelling narrative, and a splendidly acted love story involving Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender), Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), and Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), the near-forgotten patient-turned-disciple who…
by J. Hoberman
December 14, 2011
Tags: Film, Film, Carl Jung, Sabina Spielrein, Sigmund Freud, David Cronenberg
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John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the 1974 spy novel generally regarded as the writer's finest, is predicated on a pair of enigmatic personalities: the colorless bureaucratic master-spook George Smiley and the double agent the Soviets have planted near…
by J. Hoberman
December 14, 2011
Tags: Film, Film, George Smiley, Tomas Alfredson, John le Carre, Gary Oldman
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Described as a "psychotic prom-queen bitch," the anti-heroine of Young Adult, directed by Jason Reitman from a Diablo Cody screenplay, is a prize part for Charlize Theron. She plays Mavis, a 37-year-old writer of high school romance fiction, as well…
by J. Hoberman
December 7, 2011
Tags: Film, Film, Charlize Theron, Diablo Cody, Jason Reitman, Young Adult (Movie)
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Steve McQueen's first two films both star Michael Fassbender, feature virtually interchangeable titles, and are nearly as grueling to watch as they must have been to make. But where Shame might be nearly as excruciating as 2008's Hunger, it's a…
by J. Hoberman
November 30, 2011
Tags: Film, Film, Michael Fassbender, Steve McQueen, Bobby Sands, Manhattan
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Why has it taken Alexander Payne seven years to follow up on Sideways? And what's blunted his edge? Payne's earlier movies have been driven by richly flawed characters — Reese Witherspoon's monstrous high school striver in Election, Jack Nicholson's thoroughly…
by J. Hoberman
November 16, 2011
Tags: Film, Film, Alexander Payne, Matt King, Sideways (Movie), The Descendants
