The actual content of Martin’s script remains evasively sketchy in Kahn’s article. We’re informed that the protagonist’s girlfriend walks out on him and he’s puzzled as to why, and that a character talks to her cat. Both events turn up in — stop, thief! — Broken Flowers! But, hey, remember Susan Alexander bolting on the perplexed Charles Foster Kane? And every film fan relishes Philip Marlowe’s conversations with his feline in Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye!
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- Mission Control
Like many of his films, Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control will test the limits of its audience's patience.
- Video clips(2)
Broken Flowers, Wedding Crashers, The Gospel, Hustle & Flow , and The Cave.
- New to DVD for the week of January 3, 2006
Broken Flowers , The Cave , The Gospel , Hustle & Flow , and Wedding Crashers
- Flashbacks, May 12, 2006
These selections, culled from our back files, were compiled by Chris Brook and Ian Sands.
- Drifting
French filmmaker Claire Denis has acknowledged that a host of sources inspired L’intrus|The Intruder (January 25–February 9 at the MFA), the tale of a sickly, reclusive Frenchman, Louis Trebor (Michel Subor), who after paying hard cash and buying a new heart sails for the South Seas, vaguely in search of a lost illegitimate son.
- For kids of all ages
In this spineless age of ours, what more rueful sight than a child maneuvering his/her cowed parents to some insulting CGI movie?
- Gore a bore?
I was off to Silver Spring, Maryland, and the Fourth Silverdocs Documentary Festival earlier this month.
- An inconvenient poop
Maybe 18 seasons is too long to remain topical and funny, especially in prime time on Fox TV.
- Potter-schmotter!
No reading required.
- Review: Wendy and Lucy
It's a dog's life in Wendy and Lucy
- 10,000 Bone Crazy
I was thinking we could smear dirt on them and cover them in rodent bones.
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