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Casey Affleck’s Bad Behavior Be Damned (or Why You Should Not Boycott “Manchester by the Sea”)

Thu, 05 Jan 2017 20:14:24 +0000

To call Manchester by the Sea writer/director Kenneth Lonergan’s masterpiece is not an exaggeration. This is a near-flawless film. (And further proof that HBO needs to give Lonergan his own limited series a la Lisa Cholodenko’s Olive Kitteridge or Todd […]

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THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: MOONRISE KINGDOM

Mon, 21 Sep 2015 19:20:49 +0000

In this installment of Hammer to Nail's "Curbside Criterion," Brad Cook takes a look at the Blu-ray release of Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom." The Blu is ripe with fun special features and is available starting Tuesday, September 22.

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Michael Tully In Conversation With James Gray (THE IMMIGRANT)

Michael Tully — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 17:14:44 +0000

For my money, James Gray is the best American director of his generation. James Gray movies are as infused with elements of opera and painting and literature as they are classic cinema, and while his ambitiously realized worlds are indebted […]

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Cannes 2012 Dispatch #10: Love, Actually

Sun, 27 May 2012 19:59:07 +0000

Back in my Polish flat mere hours before the closing ceremony of this year’s festival—my elbows still sore from fighting my way into press screenings—I duly watched the verdict unravel upon my Twitter feed, hitting the ‘refresh’ button incessantly as […]

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Cannes 2012 Dispatch #2: Main Competition Hits The Rocks

Thu, 17 May 2012 16:08:55 +0000

After shooting for the moon on its opening night—and by no means missing, courtesy of Wes Anderson’s superb Moonrise Kingdom—this year’s main competition at Cannes hits a palpable slump with two movies committing very different sins. Yousry Nasrallah’s After the […]

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MOONRISE KINGDOM

Wed, 16 May 2012 14:53:08 +0000

By the time the story reaches its final, action-and-surprise filled set piece, Anderson manages to turn the central couple’s puppy-love from a pastel-tinted crush to something of a true medieval tale of courtly love.

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