Category Archives: actors/actresses

There Will Be Blood

Posted on 1/4/2008 by jeff

Wow. I can honestly say I’ve never seen anything like it. Sure, there are echoes of Griffith, Welles, Wyler, Huston, Kubrick, Malick, and Coppola but There Will Be Blood is its own beast—a remarkably assured, unpretentious, muscular work of American … Continue reading →

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the center of the world (molly parker)

Posted on 12/14/2007 by gio

i met luminous canadian actress molly parker, who plays a main character in deadwood and may be known to some of you through that show, in marion bridge, an equally luminous, if painful, 2003 canadian drama of family, abuse, and … Continue reading →

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A Woman Under the Influence (1974) / Cassavetes / Peter Falk

Posted on 11/21/2007 by mauer

We talked a while back about the remarkable movie Keane, and a couple questions were brought up concerning depictions of mental illness on film that don’t collapse into the redemption-by-love / Sally-Field-TV-movie stereotypes. We had just finished watching Return of … Continue reading →

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sherrybaby/maggie gyllenhaal

Posted on 2/8/2007 by gio

since people on this blog are clearly bored, here’s a crackling recommendation. in sherrybaby, which is hereby joining my best-of-2006 list with full grades, sherry is an ex-con just out of jail and on her way to the halfway home … Continue reading →

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Crispin Glover’s What Is It?

Posted on 12/18/2006 by mauer

Crispin Glover has been working on What Is It? for close to ten years now. I’ve been reading about it, and waiting to see it for as long as that. He finally brought the film (literally; he travels with it … Continue reading →

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Chris Eigeman: Metropolitan (1990) and Kicking and Screaming (1995)

Posted on 9/26/2006 by mauer

I’m annoyed with myself for being unable to write up a short appreciation of Chris Eigeman here; particularly in the context of these two films. I’ve meant to do it for a while; thankfully I don’t write for a living. … Continue reading →

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frisoli, er, ribisi

Posted on 6/30/2006 by gio

the 2003 i love your work is nothing special. it is apparently this guy’s adam goldberg’s life work — he wrote it, directed it, produced it, edited it, wrote the score for it, he did everything but star in it. … Continue reading →

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of gay actors, indian actors, and pride and prejudice

Posted on 12/8/2005 by gio

this is my first post, and i’m sure i’m already going all wrong about it. but since arnab forced me to use the password “italysucks” for my first login, i’m trying to mess up his site as much as i … Continue reading →

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character actors

Posted on 7/13/2005 by arnab

hijacking the brief nicky katt sidebar in the “layer cake” discussion and opening it up to other people we don’t see very often or in very large roles but would like to see more of. (katt, by the way, is … Continue reading →

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cate blanchett–is there anyone better?

Posted on 1/11/2005 by arnab

among major’ish stars, that is? i was reminded by her amazing double act in coffee and cigarettes of just how good an actress she is. only naomi watts comes close i think. laura linney is also very good but not … Continue reading →

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