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Ingram in ‘Boardwalk II’: At last, a grownup.

Lessons from the Cape May Film Festival

Those who can, do; those who can’t, attend film schools

Why do America’s many film schools produce so few good movies? And why are the best films made by school dropouts with real-world experience? To ask the question is to answer it.
Jackie Schifalacqua

Jackie Schifalacqua

Articles 2 minute read
Bullock: Trauma? What trauma?

Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Gravity’ (2nd review)

One very, very lonely woman

Director Alfonso Cuarón has paired the most elemental plot I’ve ever seen with visuals you must experience in the theater to believe.
Alaina Johns

Alaina Johns

Articles 3 minute read
Bullock: Trauma? What trauma?

Alfonso Cuarón’s 'Gravity' (1st review)

Exploring outer space?
First, check your brains at the door

Like most Hollywood films about outer space, Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity gives the universe its due as a boundless, forbidding zone of inhospitable horror. But it fails to suggest anything thoughtful about the raison d’être for exploring space.
AJ Sabatini

AJ Sabatini

Articles 5 minute read
McAdams, Gleeson: An unfair male advantage.

Richard Curtis’s 'About Time'

Four weddings and a waste of time

For a refreshing change, the recently concluded New York Film Festival offered more lighthearted cinema this year. But Richard Curtis’s About Time is downright scatterbrained.
Kayleigh Butera

Kayleigh Butera

Articles 3 minute read

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O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Kelly: It happened all over again.

The magic of ‘Singin’ in the Rain’

Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, and the way we were

For one night, Singing’ in the Rain transformed my ordinary childhood into something wonderful. It’s still performing the same function for my adulthood.

Virginia Alpaugh

Articles 5 minute read
Gable, Leigh: Where are their aging parents?

Why ‘Gone With the Wind’ still works for me

My soul sister, Scarlett O'Hara

What I crave, and still get, from Gone With the Wind, is escape— the sort that often seems to elude me at age 58, when my critical facilities often trump my pleasure centers.
Ilene Raymond Rush

Ilene Raymond Rush

Articles 3 minute read
His own severest critic.

In defense of Woody Allen (a response)

Our modern Chekhov: In defense of Woody Allen

Contrary to what BSR’s editor thinks, Woody Allen is a consistent filmmaker. His writing distinguishes itself with clearly defined, recurring themes that run throughout his work, that he keeps on investigating, developing, rearticulating, refining.

Carol Rocamora

Articles 6 minute read
Bar-hopping was a thrill, when you were 18.

"The World's End': 40-something reunion

The old gang of mine meets the Stepford wives

In this appealing comedy, five ex-buddies in their 40s try to rekindle their youthful friendship, only to find that even a robot/alien invasion can't heal their fundamental differences.
Jake Blumgart

Jake Blumgart

Articles 4 minute read
Why do some countries produce smarter kids than others? (Image: N.Y. Times.)

Amanda Ripley's "Smartest Kids in the World'

On divorcing sports from education: If Finland and Korea can do it…

Sports may build character, but Amanda Ripley's exploration of the world's top-ranking school systems indicate schools should concentrate on their primary purpose.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 5 minute read
Blanchett (left), Baldwin: Fantasy figures going nowhere.

Woody Allen's "Blue Jasmine' (2nd review)

Woody Allen falls off a streetcar

Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine rewrites A Streetcar Named Desire, updated to reflect the Wall Street crash and the anomic materialism it symbolized. But without Tennessee Williams's poetry or any clear view of its tragic protagonist, the film falls flat.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 7 minute read