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This Weeks Movie Reviews: All
the King's Men
Written and directed by Steve Zaillian. Cinematography, Pawel Edelman.
Music, James Horner. Starring Sean Penn, Jude Law, James Gandolfini,
Patricia Clarkson, Anthony Hopkins, Kate Winslet and Mark Ruffalo. Sony
Pictures, 2006. PG-13.120 minutes. Have you ever dashed from one social event to another only to enjoy neither because of the scurrying involved? Sometimes declining one invitation for another is easier than trying, electron-like, to be in two places at once. Such is the dilemma at the heart of All the King's Men, a new version of Robert Penn Warren's novel (not a remake of the taut 1949 film). Written and directed by Steve Zaillian — writer of Schindler's List and director of Searching for Bobby Fisher — All the King's Men keeps pulling us in different directions until eventually it pulls itself apart. Read more...
The
Science of Sleep
Written and directed by Michel Gondry. Cinematography, Jean-Louis Bompoint.
Music, Jean-Michel Bernard. Starring Gael García Bernal, Charlotte
Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat, Miou-Miou, Emma de Caunes, Aurélia Petit
and Sacha Bourdo. Warner Independent Pictures, 2006. R. 106 minutes.
On the cardboard-and-egg-crate set of "Stéphane TV," the imaginary TV show that represents his interior life, twentysomething Stéphane (Gael García Bernal) is a suave, witty conductor of life. He cooks up dreams, questions guests and marvels at the oddities of human existence. But out in the real world, beyond a shiny shower-curtain boundary, Stéphane isn't so charismatic. He's recently returned to France, his mother's homeland; his French is poor; he doesn't know anyone and the job he thought was going to be creative turns out to involve pasting calendars together. Stéphane's own calendar idea, the morbidly funny "Disastrology," is swiftly rejected. Read more...
Subway Dreams Written, directed and produced by Anna Holtzman. 2006. Not rated. 56 minutes. Journalist and New York native Anna Holtzman's intimate documentary peeks into the disparate lives of musicians playing in the subways of New York City. From auditions for Music Under New York, the MTA-approved system for licensing performers to play in prime spots, to living rooms and even Rikers Island, Holtzman sketches the stories of an interesting group of folks. Read more...
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