Derek Cianfrance’s sprawling, epic “The Place Beyond the Pines” is Capital-A Ambitious filmmaking of proportions we haven’t encountered in a project with Hollywood stars since “The Tree of Life” a few years back. Well, perhaps that’s an overstatement—Cianfrance’s focus is smaller than Terrence Malick’s, which amounted to no less than the breadth of Creation—but still, […]
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While Leos Carax’s “Holy Motors” leaves viewers with dozens of questions due to its deliberate lack of a conventional narrative structure and any exposition whatsoever, the ideas that Carax explores in the film become rather clear after one’s initial befuddlement over the story details subsides. Of course, the film is so unlike anything audiences have
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It would be appropriate to begin this post with another photo of The Avengers, which trounced all competition at the box office again yesterday, but frankly, I’m tired of heading posts with photos of The Avengers. By now, everyone’s aware of the record-breaking going on. Instead, I’m highlighting Girl in Progress, starring Eva Mendes, which yesterday, out
