The Descendants with George Clooney and Shailene Woodley. Since the late 1990s, Alexander Payne has been hopping around the United States, making movies about white, presumably heterosexual, middle-aged (or middle-ageish)…
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Melancholia with Kirsten Dunst. The European Film Academy (EFA) Awards’ Best Film winner, Melancholia tells the story of two sisters (Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg) as one of them is about…
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Death in the Garden with Simone Signoret and Georges Marchal. I hadn’t even heard of Death in the Garden before its recent DVD release on the Microcinema label. It ranks…
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National Film Awards: Controversies obscure winners Aug. 10: Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s Bengali-language Kaalpurush - Memories in the Mist, the story of a mild-mannered office clerk (Rahul Bose) whose faltering career is…