thehousenextdooronline.com - 2/12/2009
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By Dan Callahan [ Two Lovers opens this Friday in theaters. ] The buried themes in James Gray's fourth film, Two Lovers , slowly emerge from its accumulation of quotidian, seemingly small details. After impulsively jumping off a bridge in the first scene, misfit Leonard (Joaquin Phoenix) ...
gawker.com - 2/12/2009
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gawker.com —
Here's Joaquin Phoenix on David Letterman later tonight,
either stoned out of his mind or just medically...
catatonic (or both). Letterman makes several heroic efforts to politely prompt Phoenix before ruthlessly mocking him. Again, celebrities: Dave ...
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Joaquin Phoenix's Letterman Disaster [Clips] (video)
rogerebert.suntimes.com - 2/20/2009
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Q. Has Joaquin Phoenix lost it, or what?
Greg Nelson, Chicago A. I watched him on "Letterman"...
and was appalled. There are theories that he was deep in the character of his new hip-hop persona, behaving strangely for his buddy Casey Affleck's new ...
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"Two Lovers"
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... of the film's emotional/color palette is spot on, thinks the film could well be about "true love's impossibility," and the picture's typically Gray-esque, sombre tone, and any number of very real clues in the diegisis, suggest she's not far off the mark. Which is, finally, to say that this is a more complex picture than it seems—see also, for instance, Dan Callahan and Tony Dayoub mixing it up over at The House Next Door—and hence worth the time and consideration of the present-day cinephile. ...
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mtv.com 2/12/2009 — Actor's dazed appearance on 'Late Show' was either unintentionally hilarious or part of his hip-hop hoax. By Gil Kaufman
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