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Romance is Dead
Hollywood and Indiewood can do romantic pathology and entropy, but the kind of love for the ages, a big-movie kind of love? Not so much.
REVIEW | A Hero for Our Time: Gus Van Sant's "Milk"
indiewire.com — by Chris Wisniewski (November 25, 2008) "Politics is theater," observes Harvey ( Sean Penn ) in Gus... Van Sant 's terrific " Milk ." And sometimes, of course, theater -- or cinema -- is politics. When they first embarked on this project, Van Sant ... (more) REVIEW | A Hero for Our Time: Gus Van Sant's "Milk"
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