"When We Leave," "Kaboom," More
David Hudson"When We Leave, the first feature written and directed by Feo Aladag, is a somber, sometimes powerful and frequently schematic drama about a woman trying to free herself from the emotional and physical
Gregg Araki
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TIFF 2010. Vanguard
David HudsonLet's start this one with Bob Turnbull: "Fearless. Absolutely fearless filmmaking. Sion Sono takes no quarter, doesn't deal with compromises and doesn't hold anything back. He goes by
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Cannes 2010. Favorite Moments: Day 4
Daniel KasmanAnother Year (Mike Leigh, UK) There are a lot of sad figures in Leigh's film, and while it centers on Lesley Manville's skittish, lonely neurotic Mary, I quite liked the lumpy sadsackism of
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Cannes 2010. Gregg Araki's "Kaboom"
David Hudson"Essentially supersizing Nowhere (1997) and relocating it from high school to college, [Gregg Araki's Kaboom] spins an insanely complicated narrative of sex, drugs, dreams, webchats, self-fellating
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The Tubular Muse: The Close-Up
Daniel KasmanAnna Faris in "Smiley Face" (2007) & Maria Falconetti in "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1928) "I will never find the way to say how much I love American close-ups. Point blank. A head suddenly appears