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by Richard von Busack
Actors, especially actors who are clearly going the distance, know enough to josh the roles that are their annuities: it’s a matter of professionalism and survival. Robert Pattinson and Kristin Stewart, coping …
by Richard von Busack
Actors, especially who are clearly going the distance, know enough to josh the roles that are their annuities: it’s a matter of professionalism and survival. Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, coping with …
The Woman in the Window:
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl at the Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco June 24-27
By Richard von Busack
How does a director who is 101 years old make a movie? Manoel de Oliveira’s …
by Richard von Busack
THE MELODRAMA-FREE indie movie Winter’s Bone is like a Little Red Riding Hood story in which there’s nothing but wolves. The film is about how the outlaw culture in the Ozarks hasn’t …
by Richard von Busack
THE MELODRAMA-FREE indie movie Winter’s Bone is like a Little Red Riding Hood story in which there’s nothing but wolves. The film is about how the outlaw culture in the Ozarks hasn’t …
By Richard von Busack
HOW DOES Pixar do what it does with such confidence—and such confidence unmarred by smugness? Most movie executives these days have almost no confidence that an audience of all ages can handle …
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by Richard von Busack
Stick around, past the politically creepy pre-title sequence—it’s like the fond wish of an Arizonan that the US/Mexican border was patrolled with a death ray. After that, Joe Carnahan’s The A-Team develops …
by Richard von Busack
Despite the use of Johnny Cash’s cover version of Neil Diamond’s best song, the film Solitary Man seems like a strange misnomer for Michael Douglas’s latest rogue-male movie. After a few years …
by Richard von Busack
MERMAID KITSCH must be thundered against, but there’s a surprising amount of grit in Neil Jordan’s Ondine. In his 16th film, Jordan is clearly working to please himself; the Irish locations are …
by Richard von Busack
When you can make a horror film with guts and elegance, light on blood and pop-ups, heavy on the king-hell disorientation that can only come from a solid premise rooted in primal …
