A Tyrant With a Focus on Loveâs Uncertainty
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Otto Preminger became one of Hollywoodâs first and most successful producer-directors.  A retrospective at Film Forum celebrates his work.
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While âThe Maddening Truthâ is fascinating as a character study, its weakness as a play is the paucity of dramatic conflict.
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Wild ambition and great achievement sometimes carry the seeds of their own destruction -- a proposition that is both the central subject and dangerous stylistic temptation of Oliver Stone&#39;s vast, riveting, madly audacious movie biography &quot;Alexander.
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Tom Coash has written a small, sensitive romantic drama that also tries to be about the tangled relationship between East and West.
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As its title suggests, this eccentric film written and directed by Isabel Coixet, contemplates the insufficiency of language to encapsulate traumatic experience.
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What happens when idealism becomes power? That question is the driving force of Jeremy Kaganâs inert yet strangely compelling film âGoldaâs Balcony.â
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New disclosures paint a surprising portrait of the Iraqi dictator and his fateful strategies
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At 72, the famous mentalist is still full of ambitious predictions.
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With a lifetimeÂs worth of stinging observations and sharp insights, Gore VidalÂs new memoir is unmissable.
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The combativeness of Brian De PalmaÂs committed admirers often reveals more about the nature of cinephilic ardor than it does about the filmmaker himself.
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MOSCOW -- Even critics of Pavel Lungin concede that his films -- from his debut, the festival-darling "Taxi Blues," to the true-to-life tale "Tycoon" -- have a knack for hitting a nerve in Russia. His most recent film, "The Island," has touched on something more ephemeral. For many, it speaks to the Russian soul....
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Zarah Ghahramani makes a highly unlikely political prisoner, a romantic, poetry-besotted young woman whose rage at the government was a matter of personal style as much as of principle.
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Ore Kadal is a tale that refers to love that is not pure and pristine as films want us believe, but love that includes lust and guilt.
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There comes the moment in the career of many directors when they are compelled to tell the story of a great man in whose life they seem to see a glimmer of their own image.
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In his new film, "Enduring Love," Rhys Ifans, ever the loose cannon, forms an attachment to a man that is beyond sex, beyond love, beyond control.
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This stage version of Kurt Vonnegutâs antiwar 1969 masterpiece faithfully retains the novelâs pivotal moments. But woe to the spectator unfamiliar with the material.
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The dark comedy is stirring memories of a former dictator known for rights abuses and a tough line on Pyongyang.