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PETER KEOUGH

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Observe and distort

Jody Hill on the King of Comedy and Seth Rogen
Great filmmaker though he is, Martin Scorsese isn't the first name that comes to mind when you think about comedy genius. But Jody Hill, traces his inspiration in part back to his first viewing of Taxi Driver .
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 08, 2009

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Chop shop talk

Bahrani and the future of filmmaking
Film critics by nature like to discover new talent and then categorize it, so perhaps it's not surprising that A.O. Scott has dubbed Ramin Bahrani the primary practitioner of "Neo–Neo realism."
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 07, 2009

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Review: Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived

What would JFK do?
There's not much "virtual" in Kosi Masutani's thoughtful if artless documentary about the JFK administration — which is to its credit.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 08, 2009

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Review: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

A stunted coming-of-age story
Curtis Hanson's 2000 adaptation of Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys remained true to the writer's chimerical whimsy without getting cute. Not so Rawson Marshall Thurber's trashing of Chabon's first novel
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 07, 2009

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Review: Adventureland

Greg Mottola faces growing pains
Could the revival of the "Portrait of the Auteur As a Young Man" genre signal a new era of auteurship in Hollywood? Maybe, but Mottola, for one, hasn't quite reached that point.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 02, 2009

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After The Daytrippers . . .

Mottola explains
Greg Mottola didn't make a film for 11 years after his 1997 debut feature, The Daytrippers, caused a small ripple in the indie world.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 31, 2009

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Review: The Edge of Love

A soap opera about Dylan Thomas
John Maybury evoked the genius of Francis Bacon in Love Is the Devil , but he goes off the deep end with this ludicrous soap opera about Dylan Thomas.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 03, 2009

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Review: Sin Nombre

An artificially "realistic" sensibility
Films like Sin nombre exploit their subjects as much as they empathize with them.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 01, 2009

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Review: Everlasting Moments

Can a camera help mom hold it together?
You wonder how this effort — Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick in its original Swedisagh title — failed to get even a nomination for the Best Foreign Language Oscar.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 03, 2009

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Review: Examined Life

Astra Taylor's deep thoughts
Astra Taylor's peripatetic gabfest doesn't examine "life" so much as it trolls the gray area between genuine philosophy and pop-cultural pap.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 08, 2009

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Dire Strait

Strained relations in the Boston Turkish Film Festival
If the selections in this year's Boston Turkish Film Festival are any indication, nobody in that country lives happily ever after these days.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 25, 2009

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Review: The Jester

Celebrating show business and religious tradition
The National Center for Jewish Films adds to its invaluable collection of restored Yiddish films with Joseph Green & Jan Nowina-Przybylski's Der Purimshpiler , a 1937 musical comedy.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 24, 2009

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Review: Hunger

Steve McQueen cuts to the truth
Most films about the Irish Troubles don't get how Catholic it all is.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 30, 2009

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Review: The Great Buck Howard

Forgoes ambiguities in favor of schmaltz
The Great Buck Howard, a "mentalist" whose "effects" include guessing numbers and putting people to sleep, played The Tonight Show , but these days he's lucky if he gets a gig in Bakersfield.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 18, 2009

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Review: Duplicity

Let's just say that Gilroy is no Ernst Lubitsch when it comes to sophisticated, saucy effervescence. Or a Hitchcock, either.
Like Steven Soderbergh in his Oceans series, Tony Gilroy seems to have decided to take a break from making serious movies like 2007's Oscar-nominated Michael Clayton .
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 18, 2009

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Interview: Paul Rudd

His bromantic side
"With Lou Ferrigno there was also that element of excitement that I think we had with Rush."
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 20, 2009

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Review: I Love You, Man

Paul Rudd and Jason Segel subvert stereotypes
I Love You, Man starts up where He's Just Not into You left off, with some poor emasculated bastard being sacrificed to some clinging, needy, borderline psychotic bitch at the altar.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 20, 2009

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Hope springs infernal

Brimstone and buddy movies are on the Hollywood agenda
Given the current economic climate, spring this year is a season more of dread than of hope for change.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 16, 2009

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Review: Crossing Over

Slickly political, while still offering hugs and tears and gratuitous nudity.
Wayne Kramer's immigration melodrama fits into the glibly schematic, socially conscious multi-narrative niche usually filled by Paul Haggis.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 11, 2009

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Review: 12

Feel free to replace "Angry Men" with "Hammy Actors"
Never known for his restraint, Mikhalkov takes kitschy liberties with the stark drama about a jury deliberating the fate of a minority youth who's being tried for murder.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 11, 2009
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