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The Greatest of These
Any project done in collaboration with twenty-one people is almost certain to be abysmal. Joint efforts are hard to manage, unless they’re in name only: a de facto leader and a troop of “partners” who can be told to shut up and get to it....
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Magical Mystery Tours
I saw half of The Darjeeling Limited when I woke up on a plane back from Europe. That I could comprehend what was going on, and that my favorable opinion remains in the same hazy nether-world after seeing the whole thing, says as much for Wes Anderson movies in general as it does for this one in particular.
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The Evil That Men Do
Among oxymorons in common usage, one of the most popular is “victimless crime.” It would seem that if an act is criminal in nature, it must have a victim. If there is no victim, then the act cannot be a crime in any real sense. When the phrase is used, a larger point is being made, as the speaker means to imply something arcane and puritanical about a certain “offense” being considered an offense at all. Generally, the concept involves....
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Honest Regrets
“I always believed it was the things you don’t choose that make you who you are: your city, your neighborhood, your family.” Patrick Kenzie, the main character in Dennis Lehane’s Boston-based detective series, forms this observation in the opening credits of the latest film to be made of the novels, Gone Baby Gone....
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The Sight of Silence
In a film without words (or more precisely, with only two minutes of them), it’s a tautology to say that the visual experience overwhelms all other cinematic considerations. If the cinematographer doesn’t do his job here, then the experience is no better than thumbing through a very long coffee table book. But after the first fifteen minutes of such an undertaking, it becomes apparent that there’s more at stake than just filming sights worth seeing....
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Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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