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'Medora': A found documentarynew

Best known for their work with 'Found' magazine, Davy Rothbart and Andrew Cohn are finishing up a documentary about basketball and the death of the small town.
NUVO  |  Scott Shoger  |  04-05-2012  |  Movies

Remaking Theo van Gogh: Stanley Tucci Goes Dutch With 'Blind Date'

As a theatrical filmic exercise, Blind Date is a fair experiment. Just don't go expecting to see a traditional movie.
City Pulse  |  Cole Smithey  |  09-21-2009  |  Reviews

Making a Compelling Film is Not Julia Child's Playnew

A Talking Heads song gives this pedestrian, snobbish film a couple minutes of genuine art - and fun. Julie & Julia doesn’t match the delights of sensual/aesthetic food movies ... it merely dramatizes Julia Child and Julie Powell's contrasting routes to media success.
New York Press  |  Armond White  |  08-06-2009  |  Reviews

Jules of the Food Worldnew

Nora Ephron’s new film, Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child and Amy Adams as her modern-day acolyte Julie Powell, follows the parallel stories of these two real-life cooks. It’s a big, gorgeously decorated, bittersweet confection of a film, one that makes up for much of the lumpy, sugary dreck that Ephron’s been concocting for the past decade or so.
Willamette Week  |  Kelly Clarke  |  08-05-2009  |  Reviews

Likeable Kevin Costner Fields Dreams in 'Swing Vote'new

After saving the human race in Waterworld and restoring America's sense of hope in The Postman, Costner is once again the most important man in the free world.
NOW Magazine  |  Norman Wilner  |  07-07-2008  |  Profiles & Interviews

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