hammertonail.com - 12/22/2008
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(NOTE: Revolutionary Road is Michael Tully’s Favorite Book Ever. The opinions expressed herein are fiercely personal and do not reflect the attitudes of Hammer to Nail at large.)
Dear Mr. Mendes,
Where, oh where, should I begin? How about here:
You castrated Revolutionary Road. You did ...
thehousenextdooronline.com - 12/16/2008
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thehousenextdooronline.com —
By Dan Callahan [ Revolutionary Road opens December
26th in limited release; wide release in January. ]
Richard Yates’ debut novel Revolutionary Road is a suitably bleak vision of fifties suburbia and Madison Avenue soullessness, but it’s much ...
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Wild is the Wind: Revolutionary Road
rollingstone.com - 12/28/2008
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rollingstone.com —
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathryn
Hahn, D... Review: What does a cult 1961 Richard
Yates novel about a 1950s marriage rotting in the burbs have to say to a new century? Plenty, and hold on, because the raw and ...
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Revolutionary Road
indiewire.com - 12/23/2008
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indiewire.com —
by Peter Knegt (December 22, 2008) "The book
is such a kind of cult classic," " Revolutionary
Road " director Sam Mendes said of his new film's source material, Richard Yates ' 1961 novel. "It was terrifying. The most common comment from friends ...
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HONOR ROLL '08 | Plumbing The Depths of "Revolutionary ...
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... trendspotting? The result of a corrosion of older (perhaps outdated) values, without new ones to replace them? I'm not sure. Perhaps all of these factors combined to create a cultural establishment which resembled an ostrich whose head was buried deep in the post-9/11 ash."] *** 5. Peter Suderman and Michael Tully take a few year-enders down a peg: Suderman on Slumdog Millionaire; Tully on Revolutionary Road. ["There are times when it's embarrassing to be a ...
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SpoutBlog —
Being that it’s at once an embarrassing failure and an unignorable success, it’s a bit of a shock that Sam Mendes’ Revolutionary Road has thus far been received with fewer vitriolic open letters and impassioned defenses than shrugs of measured praise. Certainly the best work Mendes has ever produced for the screen, Revolutionary Road works (on the level that it does work) as a showcase for performances: big stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are probably at the top of their game, a star-making ...
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Rex Reed wild about Rev Road & Benji Button —
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Never one to mince words, Rex Reed takes a moment to slam a few year-end Cuddle-Me-Elmo movies before he launches into the sort of ravishing praise he only reserves for his favorite films of the year.
In a year notable mostly for its profligate tossing-around of overrated bores like ...
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