A humanist filmmaker with a collector’s eye
If you intend to spend a few hours at the Harvard Film Archive’s Agnès Varda retrospective (it starts Sunday and is well worth 80 minutes, an evening, or an entire weekend of your life), you’ll leave aware of how little of Varda’s filmmaking takes place beneath the cover of darkness. She practices her craft in broad daylight. During the 1950s …
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In ‘The Tourist,’ A Clumsy Game Of Cat And Mouse
There are fancy-dress balls and scenic boat rides aplenty in the new Johnny Depp-Angelina Jolie actioner — it’s just that none of them make much sense in context. An awkward jumble of half-baked thriller and lumbering romantic comedy, the movie is a hodgepodge of Hollywood cliches.
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‘American,’ ‘Cyrus,’ ‘Evil,’ ‘Town’ and many more arriving on DVD and Blu-ray Disc this month
An international thriller (“The American”), a TV adaptation (“The A-Team”), a dark comedy (“Cyrus”), an animated hit (“Despicable Me”), a teen title (“Easy A”), an inspired favorite (“Inception”), an outdoors adventure (“Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole: 3-D”), an action romp (“The Other Guys: Unrated”), a fantasy favorite (“Resident Evil: Afterlife”), an energetic picture (“Salt …
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