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NORMAN: THE MODERATE RISE AND TRAGIC FALL OF A NEW YORK FIXER

April 18, 2017 By Leave a Comment

NORMAN: THE MODERATE RISE AND TRAGIC FALL OF A NEW YORK FIXER

The title character of NORMAN: THE MODERATE RISE AND TRAGIC FALL OF A NEW YORK FIXER, lives in a world of endless possibilities. Spinning schemes, half-truths, and complete fictions into a confident spiel about enormous profits and helpful introductions, he wanders the streets of New York stalking his prey of people on the edges of… Read More »

Tagged With: expensive shoes, finance, fixer, Israel, macher, New York, scheme

NIGHTS IN RODANTHE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

NIGHTS IN RODANTHE is perfectly calibrated to jerk tears with the precision of the atomic clock at the U.S. Naval Observatory, and with the irresistible insistence of an industrial grade milking machine. It is the quintessential romance novel come to life, beautifully acted and even more beautifully photographed, with leads, Diane Lane and Richard Gere,… Read More »

AMELIA

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Of late, Hilary Swank gives only two kinds of performances, award-winning, and duds. AMELIA, a prestige effort from Mira Nair, alas, delivers the latter. To be fair, she and everyone else concerned are not working from a script, but rather from a scenario thrown together with broad strokes and characters conceived as cardboard cut-outs of… Read More »

BROOKLYN’S FINEST

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

BROOKLYN’S FINEST is an object lesson in situational ethics played without the comforting buffer of impersonal hypothesis. The eponymous cops in question are neither heroes nor villains, rather they are basically decent guys pushed to the limits that have warped their perceptions of right and wrong as considered moment by moment. Not for them is… Read More »

ARBITRAGE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Nicholas Jarecki’s ARBITRAGE brings up an age-old question. What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Only in this case, the world gained is not just a showcase home, a formidable company, and an enviable family life, it’s also an intangible thing made of high-finance maneuvers with no… Read More »

CHICAGO

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

CHICAGO

Just when you thought we’’d lost the knack for producing a live-action musical film here in the States, along comes CHICAGO. Set in 1920s in that toddling town, this hard-as-nails tale of sex, politics, fame, and most of all jazz, is a big, splashy, brassy confection wrapped up in a bow with enough bugle beads… Read More »

Tagged With: courtroom, director, lawyers, murder, musical, opening up a play for the screen, rhinestone dangers, Rob Marshall, stage to screen

SHALL WE DANCE?

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The word that most comes to mind when thinking about the Hollywood remake of the thoroughly delightful Japanese film, SHALL WE DANCE, is irksome, followed by tedious, pallid, and pointless. The cultural nuances of the original have been, of course, lost entirely, and in their stead is the sort of deep insight into the human… Read More »

THE HOAX

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

What makes THE HOAX such a thoroughly enjoyable ride is that even though its anti-hero, Clifford Irving, is perpetrating the eponymous hoax, he is so good at it. His exuberance during the highs and even the lows of his scheme as kinks pop up is infectious. He is having such a good time plotting it,… Read More »

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