Posted on October 10th, 2008 by Anne-Sophie Jahn
All the books by Philippe Claudel have an amazing capacity of baring human beings, with all the complexities, the paradoxes and the weaknesses they possess. His accurately written words strip each character layer by layer. From By a Slow River to Brodeck, Claudel’s novels treat themes such as murder, guilt, secret and suspicion objectively. He’s [...]
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Posted on October 1st, 2008 by Anne-Sophie Jahn
Is it possible to make a bad movie with an amazing screenwriter, legendary actors and $60 million? That was the question haunting my mind as I walked out of the movie theatre last Sunday, after watching the latest Jon Avnet movie: Righteous Kill.
At the top of the bill, three names: Robert de Niro, Al Pacino [...]
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Posted on September 27th, 2008 by Olga Zapisek
Paul Newman in The Hustler. Image courtesy of The Guardian.
Paul Newman, 83, the legendary actor who won an Honorary Academy Award in 1986 and captured hearts across the globe with his staggering performances, passed away Friday night after losing his fight with cancer, revealed his publicist Jeff Sanderson.
Newman’s close friends and family were at his [...]
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Posted on September 16th, 2008 by Simon Lee
A trailer has at last been released for Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. The work you know Gilliam for really depends on your age. Over twenty-five and it’s Monty Python, younger than that and it’s more likely to be Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and anyone who knows him from The [...]
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Posted on September 15th, 2008 by Lady Fra
Life, according to the Coen brothers, is a big (yet awfully funny) mess.
In fact, everything in their movies has always been rather messy, ever since Raising Arizona back in 1987, and even more so in their brilliant Burn After Reading, presented last month at the 65th Mostra del Cinema in Venice.
As one would expect, this [...]
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