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George Clooney’s 'Monuments Men'
Saving Michelangelo
George Clooney’s Monuments Men makes an American heroes’ story of the largely British effort to recover looted art treasures during World War II. The historical record is considerably more mixed, though, and the film itself has neither the documentary fidelity nor the cinematic edge of such earlier takes on the subject as The Rape of Europa or John Frankenheimer’s The Train.
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Alain Resnais, God, and ‘Providence’
God as a novelist who’s losing his touch
Alain Resnais used the film medium to trample constructs like time, space, and memory with impunity — most notably, in my opinion, in his brilliantly inventive, provocative, and beautiful 1977 allegory, Providence.
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'Inside Llewyn Davis' and 'Her'
The production value of nostalgia
As period films, Inside Llewyn Davis and Her create new worlds for the camera. Through intricate production design, they evoke a particular kind of nostalgia, making viewers miss something they have never known.
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The year I didn't go to the Academy Awards
And the winner is . . .
I truly care that quality films are made. But who actually wins an Oscar makes absolutely no difference to my life.
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In defense of binge-watching
Reading novels and watching TV actually have a fair amount in common.
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'House of Cards' on Netflix
The toxic world of political ambition
House of Cards is just good enough to make you wish it were better.
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'Monuments Men': a disappointing tribute
A great story still untold
I wish I could say that The Monuments Men is worthy of its subject and of the people who strove and died to save the art of western Europe. Instead, The Monuments Men is an action-comedy whose action is dull and whose comedy is formulaic.
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Pawel Pawlikowski's 'Ida' at Sundance
Stumbling upon Ida at Sundance felt like participating in the celebration of independent film that you may not see anywhere else.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman: An appreciation
Philip Seymour Hoffman was an actor who turned out to be better at inhabiting his characters' skin than his own.
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‘Hannah Arendt’: A gender issue (follow-up)
Seduced and deceived: Can we talk, please, about women and Nazis?
Could it be that both Hannah Arendt and her film biographer Margarethe von Trotta shared a degree of attraction to sadistic men that led them both to overlook the evil sadism in men like Adolf Eichmann?
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