filmbrain.com - 10/24/2008
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As many of you noticed, this wasn't the first time I used Claude Sautet's César et Rosalie for a screen capture quiz. Though I make best efforts not to, I had little choice but to use the film again given the limited theme of the round. Mea maxima culpa.
Far too few of Sautet's films are ...
reverseshot.com - 10/22/2008
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We know Kaufman can write; it turns out
he can direct, too. More Spike Jonze than Michel...
Gondry, the now director handles the shifts in mood and atmospherics—from grubby naturalism to understated fantasia—with impressive facility. At times—as in a ...
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Synecdoche, New York
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Vladimir Nabokov on "Synecdoche, NY"
Some Came Running —
... 2) Of course Mr. Rex Reed was going to hate this picture. For one thing, it contains a shot of a character crouching by a toilet, poking at his own fecal matter, checking for blood. That's just not the kind of thing Mr. Rex Reed goes to the cinema to see. Also, Mr. Rex Reed just recently turned 70. (Happy birthday, dude!) Fact is, anybody over 40 is going to be profoundly uncomfortable with Synecdoche, NY, even as they admire it. How I envy all those in their twenties and thirties who can silkily shrug off the film's extrapolation on the ...
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