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PASSION / THE DISSOLVE Alain Corneau’s final film, the 2010 erotic thriller Love Crime, is a clever but rickety contraption, starring Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott Thomas as business colleagues whose passive-aggressive rivalry turns aggressive-aggressive.The parts of the movie that are about two women plotting against each other are hugely entertaining, capped off by a meticulously planned “perfect crime WHERE MAD MEN ENDS, TWO-LANE BLACKTOP BEGINS / THE DISSOLVE The old woman who hitches a ride with GTO, taking her granddaughter to visit parents killed by a “city car,” might have stepped straight out of the 19th century, or at least a John Steinbeck novel. It’s easy to lose track of not only where they are, but when. GTO, a pathological liar who tries out a new life story on every person inhis
THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY: THE STORY OF AARON SWARTZ / THE The Internet’s Own Boy draws a clear connection between Swartz’s influence and the government’s eagerness to put him in his place, no matter his increasingly brittle psychological state as the months passed and the charges metastasized. But Knappenberger is guilty of prosecutorial overreach, too, when he links Swartz’s looming prison FIVE EASY PIECES / THE DISSOLVE Five Easy Pieces is the very definition of a character study, and one of the best American cinema has produced. Nicholson’s Dupea embodies the self-destructive dissatisfaction that was common to a lot of movie characters in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but his unhappiness resonates more, because he isn’t the kind of person that usually HOW WONG KAR-WAI TURNED 22 SECONDS INTO AN ETERNITY / THE The shot lasts 22 seconds, and nothing whatsoever happens during that time. Cop 663 (Tony Leung) drinks a cup of coffee, and Faye (Faye Wong) watches him. That’s it. The coffee isn’t poisoned, and there’s no narrative value to be found elsewhere in the frame. The shot could be cut without impeding the story in any way. HOW PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE EARNED, AND LOST, THE TITLE OF After the publication of 1978’s The Fifty Worst Films Of All Time, 393 readers tore out a suggestion page provided in the back of the book and mailed it to authors Harry and Michael Medved to inform them of an egregious oversight: Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space. “People really took us to task for it,” Harry Medved said in an interview conducted for this piece. HOW JIM CARREY’S BELIEF SYSTEM EXPLAINS HIS CHOICES, IN That would be a tough pill for any actor to swallow, but it was a particularly hard one for Carrey, a man who lives his life according to the law of attraction, a belief system that argues that “‘ like attracts like ,” and that by focusing on positive or negative THE AWFUL, WONDERFUL INTEGRITY OF PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE He quickly dies in a traffic accident and gets brought back to life as a zombie. Wood cobbled that much together from the stuff he shot with the real Lugosi. For the rest, Wood employed a body double—his wife’s chiropractor—to play Lugosi’s part. To complete the “illusion,” the man held a cape in front of his face. RED KNOT / THE DISSOLVE The pre-closing credits dedication in Scott Cohen’s Red Knot—“for my wife”—may scan as unintentionally hilarious, given that the feature that precedes it is an unflinching exploration of the ebbs and flows of married life, the kind that don’t make anyone look entirely innocent.Set on a ship traversing the world’s southernmost waters and bound for Antarctica, Cohen’s film deftly THIRD PERSON / THE DISSOLVE There are a few subtle clues throughout Paul Haggis’ Third Person that not everything is as it appears to be. A note hastily scrawled on a notepad in a New York hotel is picked up by a character seemingly in the same hotel—even though it’s already been established that herhotel is in Paris.
PASSION / THE DISSOLVE Alain Corneau’s final film, the 2010 erotic thriller Love Crime, is a clever but rickety contraption, starring Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott Thomas as business colleagues whose passive-aggressive rivalry turns aggressive-aggressive.The parts of the movie that are about two women plotting against each other are hugely entertaining, capped off by a meticulously planned “perfect crime WHERE MAD MEN ENDS, TWO-LANE BLACKTOP BEGINS / THE DISSOLVE The old woman who hitches a ride with GTO, taking her granddaughter to visit parents killed by a “city car,” might have stepped straight out of the 19th century, or at least a John Steinbeck novel. It’s easy to lose track of not only where they are, but when. GTO, a pathological liar who tries out a new life story on every person inhis
THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY: THE STORY OF AARON SWARTZ / THE The Internet’s Own Boy draws a clear connection between Swartz’s influence and the government’s eagerness to put him in his place, no matter his increasingly brittle psychological state as the months passed and the charges metastasized. But Knappenberger is guilty of prosecutorial overreach, too, when he links Swartz’s looming prison FIVE EASY PIECES / THE DISSOLVE Five Easy Pieces is the very definition of a character study, and one of the best American cinema has produced. Nicholson’s Dupea embodies the self-destructive dissatisfaction that was common to a lot of movie characters in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but his unhappiness resonates more, because he isn’t the kind of person that usually HOW WONG KAR-WAI TURNED 22 SECONDS INTO AN ETERNITY / THE The shot lasts 22 seconds, and nothing whatsoever happens during that time. Cop 663 (Tony Leung) drinks a cup of coffee, and Faye (Faye Wong) watches him. That’s it. The coffee isn’t poisoned, and there’s no narrative value to be found elsewhere in the frame. The shot could be cut without impeding the story in any way. HOW PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE EARNED, AND LOST, THE TITLE OF After the publication of 1978’s The Fifty Worst Films Of All Time, 393 readers tore out a suggestion page provided in the back of the book and mailed it to authors Harry and Michael Medved to inform them of an egregious oversight: Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space. “People really took us to task for it,” Harry Medved said in an interview conducted for this piece. HOW JIM CARREY’S BELIEF SYSTEM EXPLAINS HIS CHOICES, IN That would be a tough pill for any actor to swallow, but it was a particularly hard one for Carrey, a man who lives his life according to the law of attraction, a belief system that argues that “‘ like attracts like ,” and that by focusing on positive or negative HOW WONG KAR-WAI TURNED 22 SECONDS INTO AN ETERNITY / THE The shot lasts 22 seconds, and nothing whatsoever happens during that time. Cop 663 (Tony Leung) drinks a cup of coffee, and Faye (Faye Wong) watches him. That’s it. The coffee isn’t poisoned, and there’s no narrative value to be found elsewhere in the frame. The shot could be cut without impeding the story in any way. THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY: THE STORY OF AARON SWARTZ / THE The Internet’s Own Boy draws a clear connection between Swartz’s influence and the government’s eagerness to put him in his place, no matter his increasingly brittle psychological state as the months passed and the charges metastasized. But Knappenberger is guilty of prosecutorial overreach, too, when he links Swartz’s looming prison 15 YEARS BEYOND THE HYPE AND HATRED OF THE BLAIR WITCH Calling The Blair Witch Project a phenomenon is flirting with understatement.From the moment of its première at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival (where it screened as a midnight movie), Blair Witch was a full-steam word-of-mouth express, with people who’d just seen it grabbing those who hadn’t yet by their parkas and shaking them violently, insisting that they absolutely must. THE HYPNOTIC BEAUTY AND UNIVERSAL SPECIFICITY OF SPIRITED Two Dissolve writers keep the Spirited Away conversation going. Scott: Allow me to indulge, briefly, in a personal anecdote: When my eldest daughter was 3 or 4 years old, her favorite movie was My Neighbor Totoro.And that struck me as curious for a couple of reasons: One, the pace of the film is slow and lyrical, with nothing like the freneticism of American cartoons or animated features. 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Nathan: A lot of big-name directors and actors were attached to American Psycho at various times, most notably Oliver Stone, before a relatively inexperienced, unknown director named Mary Harron ended up with the job.Harron gives the film an almost Kubrickian coldness and detachment that perfectly suits the material, particularly Christian Bale’s brilliant performance HOW PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE EARNED, AND LOST, THE TITLE OF After the publication of 1978’s The Fifty Worst Films Of All Time, 393 readers tore out a suggestion page provided in the back of the book and mailed it to authors Harry and Michael Medved to inform them of an egregious oversight: Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space. “People really took us to task for it,” Harry Medved said in an interview conducted for this piece. NORMAN BATES’ LONG SECOND LIFE BEGAN WITH PSYCHO II’S In Psycho II, someone, or something, is gaslighting poor old Norman Bates. 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GENEVIEVE KOSKI / THE DISSOLVE Genevieve Koski (Managing Editor) is an editor, writer, and pop-cultural omnivore who spent a good chunk of her formative years in suburban Detroit hiding out in air-conditioned multiplexes and watching VHS tapes at home, reading the occasional book or three for good measure. This “indoor kid” mentality led her to pursue a career in writing, which she studied at Loyola University Chicago STRONGMAN / THE DISSOLVE The massive lump of humanity born Stanley Pleskun is a working-class New Jersey everyman, except for one remarkable feature: He’s long reigned as one of the strongest men in the world, a Samson-like wonder who can bend pennies with his hands and lift trucks with his legs. Pleskun is no Arnold Schwarzenegger-like bodybuilder, however. THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY / THE DISSOLVE The Bridges Of Madison County is about the sensuality of the everyday: the sweat of an Iowa summer, the taste of a cold soda from a steel cooler, the sensation of drinking a glass of beer while soaking in a bathtub, and so on. 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In general, Coppola’s films are filled with glass and reflective surfaces, but this specific shot—the camera looking in at a character who is looking out at the world, usually with reflections of that world appearing in the glass—distills all thewriter-director’s
HOW JIM CARREY’S BELIEF SYSTEM EXPLAINS HIS CHOICES, IN That would be a tough pill for any actor to swallow, but it was a particularly hard one for Carrey, a man who lives his life according to the law of attraction, a belief system that argues that “‘ like attracts like ,” and that by focusing on positive or negative FORGOTBUSTERS / THE DISSOLVEHOME VIDEOYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKEEXPOSITIONONE YEAR LATERCAREER VIEWPERFORMANCE REVIEW In 2005, Monster-In-Law found ways to humiliate two generations of women. A comeback brought Jane Fonda back to the big screen at the expense of her dignity and ideals. The charming stuntman movie Hooper and suicide comedy The End cleaned up at the box-office at a time when the public simply could not get enough Burt Reynolds. PASSION / THE DISSOLVE Alain Corneau’s final film, the 2010 erotic thriller Love Crime, is a clever but rickety contraption, starring Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott Thomas as business colleagues whose passive-aggressive rivalry turns aggressive-aggressive.The parts of the movie that are about two women plotting against each other are hugely entertaining, capped off by a meticulously planned “perfect crime THE AWFUL, WONDERFUL INTEGRITY OF PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE He quickly dies in a traffic accident and gets brought back to life as a zombie. Wood cobbled that much together from the stuff he shot with the real Lugosi. For the rest, Wood employed a body double—his wife’s chiropractor—to play Lugosi’s part. To complete the “illusion,” the man held a cape in front of his face. GENEVIEVE KOSKI / THE DISSOLVE Genevieve Koski (Managing Editor) is an editor, writer, and pop-cultural omnivore who spent a good chunk of her formative years in suburban Detroit hiding out in air-conditioned multiplexes and watching VHS tapes at home, reading the occasional book or three for good measure. This “indoor kid” mentality led her to pursue a career in writing, which she studied at Loyola University Chicago STRONGMAN / THE DISSOLVE The massive lump of humanity born Stanley Pleskun is a working-class New Jersey everyman, except for one remarkable feature: He’s long reigned as one of the strongest men in the world, a Samson-like wonder who can bend pennies with his hands and lift trucks with his legs. Pleskun is no Arnold Schwarzenegger-like bodybuilder, however. THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY / THE DISSOLVE The Bridges Of Madison County is about the sensuality of the everyday: the sweat of an Iowa summer, the taste of a cold soda from a steel cooler, the sensation of drinking a glass of beer while soaking in a bathtub, and so on. Eastwood and Green’s simple approach pays off with the movie’s most emotionally devastating scene, where Francesca UNDERDOGS / THE DISSOLVE Underdog sports dramas don’t come more generic than Underdogs, which seems to have been constructed not from a screenplay, but from a computer program that converts a few simple keywords into a “product blueprint.”Though the film is loosely based on actual events, there’s scarcely a moment that doesn’t feel hackneyed; at its best, it’s like Friday Night Lights (movie or series FIVE MAGICAL-REALISM MOVIES IN THE SPIRIT OF THE LATE Like Water For Chocolate (1992) Directed by Alfonso Arau The movie that most cinephiles probably think of immediately when the term “magical realism” comes up is the arthouse hit Like Water For Chocolate, based on a Laura Esquivel novel that is very much in the Márquez tradition.Lumi Cavazos plays Tita, a lovelorn Mexican woman whose emotions sometimes spill directly into her cooking THE VIRGIN SUICIDES IS A WINDOW INTO SOFIA COPPOLA’S Sofia Coppola’s slim but remarkably cohesive five-feature filmography has established a signature shot: the window gaze. In general, Coppola’s films are filled with glass and reflective surfaces, but this specific shot—the camera looking in at a character who is looking out at the world, usually with reflections of that world appearing in the glass—distills all thewriter-director’s
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THE VIRGIN SUICIDES IS A WINDOW INTO SOFIA COPPOLA’S Sofia Coppola’s slim but remarkably cohesive five-feature filmography has established a signature shot: the window gaze. In general, Coppola’s films are filled with glass and reflective surfaces, but this specific shot—the camera looking in at a character who is looking out at the world, usually with reflections of that world appearing in the glass—distills all thewriter-director’s
THIRD PERSON / THE DISSOLVE There are a few subtle clues throughout Paul Haggis’ Third Person that not everything is as it appears to be. A note hastily scrawled on a notepad in a New York hotel is picked up by a character seemingly in the same hotel—even though it’s already been established that herhotel is in Paris.
FIVE MAGICAL-REALISM MOVIES IN THE SPIRIT OF THE LATE Like Water For Chocolate (1992) Directed by Alfonso Arau The movie that most cinephiles probably think of immediately when the term “magical realism” comes up is the arthouse hit Like Water For Chocolate, based on a Laura Esquivel novel that is very much in the Márquez tradition.Lumi Cavazos plays Tita, a lovelorn Mexican woman whose emotions sometimes spill directly into her cooking 15 YEARS BEYOND THE HYPE AND HATRED OF THE BLAIR WITCH Calling The Blair Witch Project a phenomenon is flirting with understatement.From the moment of its première at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival (where it screened as a midnight movie), Blair Witch was a full-steam word-of-mouth express, with people who’d just seen it grabbing those who hadn’t yet by their parkas and shaking them violently, insisting that they absolutely must. THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY: THE STORY OF AARON SWARTZ / THE The Internet’s Own Boy draws a clear connection between Swartz’s influence and the government’s eagerness to put him in his place, no matter his increasingly brittle psychological state as the months passed and the charges metastasized. But Knappenberger is guilty of prosecutorial overreach, too, when he links Swartz’s looming prison FIVE EASY PIECES / THE DISSOLVE Five Easy Pieces is the very definition of a character study, and one of the best American cinema has produced. Nicholson’s Dupea embodies the self-destructive dissatisfaction that was common to a lot of movie characters in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but his unhappiness resonates more, because he isn’t the kind of person that usually HOW WONG KAR-WAI TURNED 22 SECONDS INTO AN ETERNITY / THE The shot lasts 22 seconds, and nothing whatsoever happens during that time. Cop 663 (Tony Leung) drinks a cup of coffee, and Faye (Faye Wong) watches him. That’s it. The coffee isn’t poisoned, and there’s no narrative value to be found elsewhere in the frame. The shot could be cut without impeding the story in any way. STREAMING UNIVERSITY: WHO IS HARRY NILSSON (AND WHY IS Director: John Scheinfeld. Streaming On: Netflix. Primary Focus Of Study: Harry Nilsson. Secondary Focuses Of Study: Pop Eccentrics, Addiction, The Music Industry. Singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson is not obscure by any stretch of the imagination, but he’s also not the kind of artist that gets shoved down people’s throats. HOW PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE EARNED, AND LOST, THE TITLE OF After the publication of 1978’s The Fifty Worst Films Of All Time, 393 readers tore out a suggestion page provided in the back of the book and mailed it to authors Harry and Michael Medved to inform them of an egregious oversight: Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space. “People really took us to task for it,” Harry Medved said in an interview conducted for this piece. FORGOTBUSTERS / THE DISSOLVEHOME VIDEOYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKEEXPOSITIONONE YEAR LATERCAREER VIEWPERFORMANCE REVIEW In 2005, Monster-In-Law found ways to humiliate two generations of women. A comeback brought Jane Fonda back to the big screen at the expense of her dignity and ideals. The charming stuntman movie Hooper and suicide comedy The End cleaned up at the box-office at a time when the public simply could not get enough Burt Reynolds. PASSION / THE DISSOLVE Alain Corneau’s final film, the 2010 erotic thriller Love Crime, is a clever but rickety contraption, starring Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott Thomas as business colleagues whose passive-aggressive rivalry turns aggressive-aggressive.The parts of the movie that are about two women plotting against each other are hugely entertaining, capped off by a meticulously planned “perfect crime THE AWFUL, WONDERFUL INTEGRITY OF PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE He quickly dies in a traffic accident and gets brought back to life as a zombie. Wood cobbled that much together from the stuff he shot with the real Lugosi. For the rest, Wood employed a body double—his wife’s chiropractor—to play Lugosi’s part. To complete the “illusion,” the man held a cape in front of his face. STRONGMAN / THE DISSOLVE The massive lump of humanity born Stanley Pleskun is a working-class New Jersey everyman, except for one remarkable feature: He’s long reigned as one of the strongest men in the world, a Samson-like wonder who can bend pennies with his hands and lift trucks with his legs. Pleskun is no Arnold Schwarzenegger-like bodybuilder, however. WHERE MAD MEN ENDS, TWO-LANE BLACKTOP BEGINS / THE DISSOLVE The old woman who hitches a ride with GTO, taking her granddaughter to visit parents killed by a “city car,” might have stepped straight out of the 19th century, or at least a John Steinbeck novel. It’s easy to lose track of not only where they are, but when. GTO, a pathological liar who tries out a new life story on every person inhis
THIRD PERSON / THE DISSOLVE There are a few subtle clues throughout Paul Haggis’ Third Person that not everything is as it appears to be. A note hastily scrawled on a notepad in a New York hotel is picked up by a character seemingly in the same hotel—even though it’s already been established that herhotel is in Paris.
UNDERDOGS / THE DISSOLVE Underdog sports dramas don’t come more generic than Underdogs, which seems to have been constructed not from a screenplay, but from a computer program that converts a few simple keywords into a “product blueprint.”Though the film is loosely based on actual events, there’s scarcely a moment that doesn’t feel hackneyed; at its best, it’s like Friday Night Lights (movie or series THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY / THE DISSOLVE The Bridges Of Madison County is about the sensuality of the everyday: the sweat of an Iowa summer, the taste of a cold soda from a steel cooler, the sensation of drinking a glass of beer while soaking in a bathtub, and so on. Eastwood and Green’s simple approach pays off with the movie’s most emotionally devastating scene, where Francesca FIVE EASY PIECES / THE DISSOLVE Five Easy Pieces is the very definition of a character study, and one of the best American cinema has produced. Nicholson’s Dupea embodies the self-destructive dissatisfaction that was common to a lot of movie characters in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but his unhappiness resonates more, because he isn’t the kind of person that usually HOW JIM CARREY’S BELIEF SYSTEM EXPLAINS HIS CHOICES, IN That would be a tough pill for any actor to swallow, but it was a particularly hard one for Carrey, a man who lives his life according to the law of attraction, a belief system that argues that “‘ like attracts like ,” and that by focusing on positive or negative FORGOTBUSTERS / THE DISSOLVEHOME VIDEOYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKEEXPOSITIONONE YEAR LATERCAREER VIEWPERFORMANCE REVIEW In 2005, Monster-In-Law found ways to humiliate two generations of women. A comeback brought Jane Fonda back to the big screen at the expense of her dignity and ideals. The charming stuntman movie Hooper and suicide comedy The End cleaned up at the box-office at a time when the public simply could not get enough Burt Reynolds. PASSION / THE DISSOLVE Alain Corneau’s final film, the 2010 erotic thriller Love Crime, is a clever but rickety contraption, starring Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott Thomas as business colleagues whose passive-aggressive rivalry turns aggressive-aggressive.The parts of the movie that are about two women plotting against each other are hugely entertaining, capped off by a meticulously planned “perfect crime THE AWFUL, WONDERFUL INTEGRITY OF PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE He quickly dies in a traffic accident and gets brought back to life as a zombie. Wood cobbled that much together from the stuff he shot with the real Lugosi. For the rest, Wood employed a body double—his wife’s chiropractor—to play Lugosi’s part. To complete the “illusion,” the man held a cape in front of his face. STRONGMAN / THE DISSOLVE The massive lump of humanity born Stanley Pleskun is a working-class New Jersey everyman, except for one remarkable feature: He’s long reigned as one of the strongest men in the world, a Samson-like wonder who can bend pennies with his hands and lift trucks with his legs. Pleskun is no Arnold Schwarzenegger-like bodybuilder, however. WHERE MAD MEN ENDS, TWO-LANE BLACKTOP BEGINS / THE DISSOLVE The old woman who hitches a ride with GTO, taking her granddaughter to visit parents killed by a “city car,” might have stepped straight out of the 19th century, or at least a John Steinbeck novel. It’s easy to lose track of not only where they are, but when. GTO, a pathological liar who tries out a new life story on every person inhis
THIRD PERSON / THE DISSOLVE There are a few subtle clues throughout Paul Haggis’ Third Person that not everything is as it appears to be. A note hastily scrawled on a notepad in a New York hotel is picked up by a character seemingly in the same hotel—even though it’s already been established that herhotel is in Paris.
UNDERDOGS / THE DISSOLVE Underdog sports dramas don’t come more generic than Underdogs, which seems to have been constructed not from a screenplay, but from a computer program that converts a few simple keywords into a “product blueprint.”Though the film is loosely based on actual events, there’s scarcely a moment that doesn’t feel hackneyed; at its best, it’s like Friday Night Lights (movie or series THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY / THE DISSOLVE The Bridges Of Madison County is about the sensuality of the everyday: the sweat of an Iowa summer, the taste of a cold soda from a steel cooler, the sensation of drinking a glass of beer while soaking in a bathtub, and so on. Eastwood and Green’s simple approach pays off with the movie’s most emotionally devastating scene, where Francesca FIVE EASY PIECES / THE DISSOLVE Five Easy Pieces is the very definition of a character study, and one of the best American cinema has produced. Nicholson’s Dupea embodies the self-destructive dissatisfaction that was common to a lot of movie characters in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but his unhappiness resonates more, because he isn’t the kind of person that usually HOW JIM CARREY’S BELIEF SYSTEM EXPLAINS HIS CHOICES, IN That would be a tough pill for any actor to swallow, but it was a particularly hard one for Carrey, a man who lives his life according to the law of attraction, a belief system that argues that “‘ like attracts like ,” and that by focusing on positive or negative WHERE MAD MEN ENDS, TWO-LANE BLACKTOP BEGINS / THE DISSOLVE You can never go fast enough.” — The Driver, Two-Lane Blacktop “You can put this behind you.It’ll get easier as you move forward.” — Don Draper, Mad Men As Don Draper sped across the salt flats in the opening shots of Mad Men’s series finale, I was drawn back to a thought I’d had more than a year before: What if Mad Men turns out to be a prequel to Two-Lane Blacktop? THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY / THE DISSOLVE The Bridges Of Madison County is about the sensuality of the everyday: the sweat of an Iowa summer, the taste of a cold soda from a steel cooler, the sensation of drinking a glass of beer while soaking in a bathtub, and so on. Eastwood and Green’s simple approach pays off with the movie’s most emotionally devastating scene, where Francesca THE VIRGIN SUICIDES IS A WINDOW INTO SOFIA COPPOLA’S Sofia Coppola’s slim but remarkably cohesive five-feature filmography has established a signature shot: the window gaze. In general, Coppola’s films are filled with glass and reflective surfaces, but this specific shot—the camera looking in at a character who is looking out at the world, usually with reflections of that world appearing in the glass—distills all thewriter-director’s
THE HYPNOTIC BEAUTY AND UNIVERSAL SPECIFICITY OF SPIRITED Two Dissolve writers keep the Spirited Away conversation going. Scott: Allow me to indulge, briefly, in a personal anecdote: When my eldest daughter was 3 or 4 years old, her favorite movie was My Neighbor Totoro.And that struck me as curious for a couple of reasons: One, the pace of the film is slow and lyrical, with nothing like the freneticism of American cartoons or animated features. SOPHIE'S CHOICE / THE DISSOLVE Alan J. Pakula’s 1982 adaptation of William Styron’s 1979 novel Sophie’s Choice is one of those films whose great qualities put its lesser elements in sharp relief. Chief among the former is Meryl Streep’s performance, which garnered her first Best Actress Academy Award and helped confirm her as one of the most formidable talents ofher generation.
HOW WONG KAR-WAI TURNED 22 SECONDS INTO AN ETERNITY / THE The shot lasts 22 seconds, and nothing whatsoever happens during that time. Cop 663 (Tony Leung) drinks a cup of coffee, and Faye (Faye Wong) watches him. That’s it. The coffee isn’t poisoned, and there’s no narrative value to be found elsewhere in the frame. The shot could be cut without impeding the story in any way. VAL KILMER DIES COLORFULLY AS DOC HOLLIDAY IN TOMBSTONE Staunch Characters pays tribute to great character actors by singling out a specific performance that illustrates their mastery. Becoming a movie star is the worst thing that could have happened to Val Kilmer because it obscured his real strengths as a character actor. A DISTURBING TOY CAPTURES A.I.’S UNNERVING FATALISM / THE Whenever anyone tells me that the ending to Steven Spielberg’s 2001 science-fiction film A.I. Artificial Intelligence is a cop-out, or that it slaps a happy face on the harsher story that the project’s originator, Stanley Kubrick, would’ve told, I think of Teddy. In the last 15 minutes of A.I., a super-advanced robot named David (played by Haley Joel Osment) asks a colony of even-more ANG LEE’S OBSESSIONS HELP DECODE CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN There are elements of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon that a Western audience is unlikely to understand. The title comes from a Chinese aphorism about hiding strength from the world. The story centers on a 400-year-old sword called Green Destiny because, as director Ang Lee explains it, the color green represents the yin, the female mystery, which is at the heart of his female-led film. HARRISON FORD CRUSHES YOUR ROMANTIC DREAMS ABOUT WITNESS Aware he’s brought too much danger into her life, Ford’s policeman John Book eventually takes the dirt road straight out of Lancaster County. The film was released in 1985, when Ford was at his most swoon-inducing and his adoring fans were most prone to be disappointed at his failure to find a happy, romantic ending. FORGOTBUSTERS / THE DISSOLVEHOME VIDEOYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKEEXPOSITIONONE YEAR LATERCAREER VIEWPERFORMANCE REVIEW In 2005, Monster-In-Law found ways to humiliate two generations of women. A comeback brought Jane Fonda back to the big screen at the expense of her dignity and ideals. The charming stuntman movie Hooper and suicide comedy The End cleaned up at the box-office at a time when the public simply could not get enough Burt Reynolds. PASSION / THE DISSOLVE Alain Corneau’s final film, the 2010 erotic thriller Love Crime, is a clever but rickety contraption, starring Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott Thomas as business colleagues whose passive-aggressive rivalry turns aggressive-aggressive.The parts of the movie that are about two women plotting against each other are hugely entertaining, capped off by a meticulously planned “perfect crime THE AWFUL, WONDERFUL INTEGRITY OF PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE He quickly dies in a traffic accident and gets brought back to life as a zombie. Wood cobbled that much together from the stuff he shot with the real Lugosi. For the rest, Wood employed a body double—his wife’s chiropractor—to play Lugosi’s part. To complete the “illusion,” the man held a cape in front of his face. STRONGMAN / THE DISSOLVE The massive lump of humanity born Stanley Pleskun is a working-class New Jersey everyman, except for one remarkable feature: He’s long reigned as one of the strongest men in the world, a Samson-like wonder who can bend pennies with his hands and lift trucks with his legs. Pleskun is no Arnold Schwarzenegger-like bodybuilder, however. WHERE MAD MEN ENDS, TWO-LANE BLACKTOP BEGINS / THE DISSOLVE The old woman who hitches a ride with GTO, taking her granddaughter to visit parents killed by a “city car,” might have stepped straight out of the 19th century, or at least a John Steinbeck novel. It’s easy to lose track of not only where they are, but when. GTO, a pathological liar who tries out a new life story on every person inhis
THIRD PERSON / THE DISSOLVE There are a few subtle clues throughout Paul Haggis’ Third Person that not everything is as it appears to be. A note hastily scrawled on a notepad in a New York hotel is picked up by a character seemingly in the same hotel—even though it’s already been established that herhotel is in Paris.
UNDERDOGS / THE DISSOLVE Underdog sports dramas don’t come more generic than Underdogs, which seems to have been constructed not from a screenplay, but from a computer program that converts a few simple keywords into a “product blueprint.”Though the film is loosely based on actual events, there’s scarcely a moment that doesn’t feel hackneyed; at its best, it’s like Friday Night Lights (movie or series THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY / THE DISSOLVE The Bridges Of Madison County is about the sensuality of the everyday: the sweat of an Iowa summer, the taste of a cold soda from a steel cooler, the sensation of drinking a glass of beer while soaking in a bathtub, and so on. Eastwood and Green’s simple approach pays off with the movie’s most emotionally devastating scene, where Francesca FIVE EASY PIECES / THE DISSOLVE Five Easy Pieces is the very definition of a character study, and one of the best American cinema has produced. Nicholson’s Dupea embodies the self-destructive dissatisfaction that was common to a lot of movie characters in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but his unhappiness resonates more, because he isn’t the kind of person that usually HOW JIM CARREY’S BELIEF SYSTEM EXPLAINS HIS CHOICES, IN That would be a tough pill for any actor to swallow, but it was a particularly hard one for Carrey, a man who lives his life according to the law of attraction, a belief system that argues that “‘ like attracts like ,” and that by focusing on positive or negative FORGOTBUSTERS / THE DISSOLVEHOME VIDEOYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKEEXPOSITIONONE YEAR LATERCAREER VIEWPERFORMANCE REVIEW In 2005, Monster-In-Law found ways to humiliate two generations of women. A comeback brought Jane Fonda back to the big screen at the expense of her dignity and ideals. The charming stuntman movie Hooper and suicide comedy The End cleaned up at the box-office at a time when the public simply could not get enough Burt Reynolds. PASSION / THE DISSOLVE Alain Corneau’s final film, the 2010 erotic thriller Love Crime, is a clever but rickety contraption, starring Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott Thomas as business colleagues whose passive-aggressive rivalry turns aggressive-aggressive.The parts of the movie that are about two women plotting against each other are hugely entertaining, capped off by a meticulously planned “perfect crime THE AWFUL, WONDERFUL INTEGRITY OF PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE He quickly dies in a traffic accident and gets brought back to life as a zombie. Wood cobbled that much together from the stuff he shot with the real Lugosi. For the rest, Wood employed a body double—his wife’s chiropractor—to play Lugosi’s part. To complete the “illusion,” the man held a cape in front of his face. STRONGMAN / THE DISSOLVE The massive lump of humanity born Stanley Pleskun is a working-class New Jersey everyman, except for one remarkable feature: He’s long reigned as one of the strongest men in the world, a Samson-like wonder who can bend pennies with his hands and lift trucks with his legs. Pleskun is no Arnold Schwarzenegger-like bodybuilder, however. WHERE MAD MEN ENDS, TWO-LANE BLACKTOP BEGINS / THE DISSOLVE The old woman who hitches a ride with GTO, taking her granddaughter to visit parents killed by a “city car,” might have stepped straight out of the 19th century, or at least a John Steinbeck novel. It’s easy to lose track of not only where they are, but when. GTO, a pathological liar who tries out a new life story on every person inhis
THIRD PERSON / THE DISSOLVE There are a few subtle clues throughout Paul Haggis’ Third Person that not everything is as it appears to be. A note hastily scrawled on a notepad in a New York hotel is picked up by a character seemingly in the same hotel—even though it’s already been established that herhotel is in Paris.
UNDERDOGS / THE DISSOLVE Underdog sports dramas don’t come more generic than Underdogs, which seems to have been constructed not from a screenplay, but from a computer program that converts a few simple keywords into a “product blueprint.”Though the film is loosely based on actual events, there’s scarcely a moment that doesn’t feel hackneyed; at its best, it’s like Friday Night Lights (movie or series THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY / THE DISSOLVE The Bridges Of Madison County is about the sensuality of the everyday: the sweat of an Iowa summer, the taste of a cold soda from a steel cooler, the sensation of drinking a glass of beer while soaking in a bathtub, and so on. Eastwood and Green’s simple approach pays off with the movie’s most emotionally devastating scene, where Francesca FIVE EASY PIECES / THE DISSOLVE Five Easy Pieces is the very definition of a character study, and one of the best American cinema has produced. Nicholson’s Dupea embodies the self-destructive dissatisfaction that was common to a lot of movie characters in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but his unhappiness resonates more, because he isn’t the kind of person that usually HOW JIM CARREY’S BELIEF SYSTEM EXPLAINS HIS CHOICES, IN That would be a tough pill for any actor to swallow, but it was a particularly hard one for Carrey, a man who lives his life according to the law of attraction, a belief system that argues that “‘ like attracts like ,” and that by focusing on positive or negative WHERE MAD MEN ENDS, TWO-LANE BLACKTOP BEGINS / THE DISSOLVE You can never go fast enough.” — The Driver, Two-Lane Blacktop “You can put this behind you.It’ll get easier as you move forward.” — Don Draper, Mad Men As Don Draper sped across the salt flats in the opening shots of Mad Men’s series finale, I was drawn back to a thought I’d had more than a year before: What if Mad Men turns out to be a prequel to Two-Lane Blacktop? THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY / THE DISSOLVE The Bridges Of Madison County is about the sensuality of the everyday: the sweat of an Iowa summer, the taste of a cold soda from a steel cooler, the sensation of drinking a glass of beer while soaking in a bathtub, and so on. Eastwood and Green’s simple approach pays off with the movie’s most emotionally devastating scene, where Francesca THE VIRGIN SUICIDES IS A WINDOW INTO SOFIA COPPOLA’S Sofia Coppola’s slim but remarkably cohesive five-feature filmography has established a signature shot: the window gaze. In general, Coppola’s films are filled with glass and reflective surfaces, but this specific shot—the camera looking in at a character who is looking out at the world, usually with reflections of that world appearing in the glass—distills all thewriter-director’s
THE HYPNOTIC BEAUTY AND UNIVERSAL SPECIFICITY OF SPIRITED Two Dissolve writers keep the Spirited Away conversation going. Scott: Allow me to indulge, briefly, in a personal anecdote: When my eldest daughter was 3 or 4 years old, her favorite movie was My Neighbor Totoro.And that struck me as curious for a couple of reasons: One, the pace of the film is slow and lyrical, with nothing like the freneticism of American cartoons or animated features. SOPHIE'S CHOICE / THE DISSOLVE Alan J. Pakula’s 1982 adaptation of William Styron’s 1979 novel Sophie’s Choice is one of those films whose great qualities put its lesser elements in sharp relief. Chief among the former is Meryl Streep’s performance, which garnered her first Best Actress Academy Award and helped confirm her as one of the most formidable talents ofher generation.
HOW WONG KAR-WAI TURNED 22 SECONDS INTO AN ETERNITY / THE The shot lasts 22 seconds, and nothing whatsoever happens during that time. Cop 663 (Tony Leung) drinks a cup of coffee, and Faye (Faye Wong) watches him. That’s it. The coffee isn’t poisoned, and there’s no narrative value to be found elsewhere in the frame. The shot could be cut without impeding the story in any way. VAL KILMER DIES COLORFULLY AS DOC HOLLIDAY IN TOMBSTONE Staunch Characters pays tribute to great character actors by singling out a specific performance that illustrates their mastery. Becoming a movie star is the worst thing that could have happened to Val Kilmer because it obscured his real strengths as a character actor. A DISTURBING TOY CAPTURES A.I.’S UNNERVING FATALISM / THE Whenever anyone tells me that the ending to Steven Spielberg’s 2001 science-fiction film A.I. Artificial Intelligence is a cop-out, or that it slaps a happy face on the harsher story that the project’s originator, Stanley Kubrick, would’ve told, I think of Teddy. In the last 15 minutes of A.I., a super-advanced robot named David (played by Haley Joel Osment) asks a colony of even-more ANG LEE’S OBSESSIONS HELP DECODE CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN There are elements of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon that a Western audience is unlikely to understand. The title comes from a Chinese aphorism about hiding strength from the world. The story centers on a 400-year-old sword called Green Destiny because, as director Ang Lee explains it, the color green represents the yin, the female mystery, which is at the heart of his female-led film. HARRISON FORD CRUSHES YOUR ROMANTIC DREAMS ABOUT WITNESS Aware he’s brought too much danger into her life, Ford’s policeman John Book eventually takes the dirt road straight out of Lancaster County. The film was released in 1985, when Ford was at his most swoon-inducing and his adoring fans were most prone to be disappointed at his failure to find a happy, romantic ending. FORGOTBUSTERS / THE DISSOLVEHOME VIDEOYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKEEXPOSITIONONE YEAR LATERCAREER VIEWPERFORMANCE REVIEW In 2005, Monster-In-Law found ways to humiliate two generations of women. A comeback brought Jane Fonda back to the big screen at the expense of her dignity and ideals. The charming stuntman movie Hooper and suicide comedy The End cleaned up at the box-office at a time when the public simply could not get enough Burt Reynolds. PASSION / THE DISSOLVE Alain Corneau’s final film, the 2010 erotic thriller Love Crime, is a clever but rickety contraption, starring Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott Thomas as business colleagues whose passive-aggressive rivalry turns aggressive-aggressive.The parts of the movie that are about two women plotting against each other are hugely entertaining, capped off by a meticulously planned “perfect crime THE AWFUL, WONDERFUL INTEGRITY OF PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE He quickly dies in a traffic accident and gets brought back to life as a zombie. Wood cobbled that much together from the stuff he shot with the real Lugosi. For the rest, Wood employed a body double—his wife’s chiropractor—to play Lugosi’s part. To complete the “illusion,” the man held a cape in front of his face. STRONGMAN / THE DISSOLVESTRONGMANSTRONGMAN DOCSTRONGMAN DOCUMENTARYSTRONGMAN MOVIE The massive lump of humanity born Stanley Pleskun is a working-class New Jersey everyman, except for one remarkable feature: He’s long reigned as one of the strongest men in the world, a Samson-like wonder who can bend pennies with his hands and lift trucks with his legs. Pleskun is no Arnold Schwarzenegger-like bodybuilder, however. WHERE MAD MEN ENDS, TWO-LANE BLACKTOP BEGINS / THE DISSOLVE The old woman who hitches a ride with GTO, taking her granddaughter to visit parents killed by a “city car,” might have stepped straight out of the 19th century, or at least a John Steinbeck novel. It’s easy to lose track of not only where they are, but when. GTO, a pathological liar who tries out a new life story on every person inhis
THIRD PERSON / THE DISSOLVE There are a few subtle clues throughout Paul Haggis’ Third Person that not everything is as it appears to be. A note hastily scrawled on a notepad in a New York hotel is picked up by a character seemingly in the same hotel—even though it’s already been established that herhotel is in Paris.
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Underdog sports dramas don’t come more generic than Underdogs, which seems to have been constructed not from a screenplay, but from a computer program that converts a few simple keywords into a “product blueprint.”Though the film is loosely based on actual events, there’s scarcely a moment that doesn’t feel hackneyed; at its best, it’s like Friday Night Lights (movie or series THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY / THE DISSOLVEBRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY CASTBRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY FILMBRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY SOUNDTRACKMADISON COUNTY BRIDGES MAP The Bridges Of Madison County is about the sensuality of the everyday: the sweat of an Iowa summer, the taste of a cold soda from a steel cooler, the sensation of drinking a glass of beer while soaking in a bathtub, and so on. Eastwood and Green’s simple approach pays off with the movie’s most emotionally devastating scene, where Francesca FIVE EASY PIECES / THE DISSOLVE Five Easy Pieces is the very definition of a character study, and one of the best American cinema has produced. Nicholson’s Dupea embodies the self-destructive dissatisfaction that was common to a lot of movie characters in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but his unhappiness resonates more, because he isn’t the kind of person that usually HOW JIM CARREY’S BELIEF SYSTEM EXPLAINS HIS CHOICES, INHOW DID JIM CARREY BECOME AN ACTORJIM CARREY EARLY LIFEJIM CARREY FAITHJIM CARREY GODJIM CARREY POLITICAL VIEWSJIM CARREY RELIGIOUS BELIEFS That would be a tough pill for any actor to swallow, but it was a particularly hard one for Carrey, a man who lives his life according to the law of attraction, a belief system that argues that “‘ like attracts like ,” and that by focusing on positive or negative FORGOTBUSTERS / THE DISSOLVEHOME VIDEOYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKEEXPOSITIONONE YEAR LATERCAREER VIEWPERFORMANCE REVIEW In 2005, Monster-In-Law found ways to humiliate two generations of women. A comeback brought Jane Fonda back to the big screen at the expense of her dignity and ideals. The charming stuntman movie Hooper and suicide comedy The End cleaned up at the box-office at a time when the public simply could not get enough Burt Reynolds. PASSION / THE DISSOLVE Alain Corneau’s final film, the 2010 erotic thriller Love Crime, is a clever but rickety contraption, starring Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott Thomas as business colleagues whose passive-aggressive rivalry turns aggressive-aggressive.The parts of the movie that are about two women plotting against each other are hugely entertaining, capped off by a meticulously planned “perfect crime THE AWFUL, WONDERFUL INTEGRITY OF PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE He quickly dies in a traffic accident and gets brought back to life as a zombie. Wood cobbled that much together from the stuff he shot with the real Lugosi. For the rest, Wood employed a body double—his wife’s chiropractor—to play Lugosi’s part. To complete the “illusion,” the man held a cape in front of his face. STRONGMAN / THE DISSOLVESTRONGMANSTRONGMAN DOCSTRONGMAN DOCUMENTARYSTRONGMAN MOVIE The massive lump of humanity born Stanley Pleskun is a working-class New Jersey everyman, except for one remarkable feature: He’s long reigned as one of the strongest men in the world, a Samson-like wonder who can bend pennies with his hands and lift trucks with his legs. Pleskun is no Arnold Schwarzenegger-like bodybuilder, however. WHERE MAD MEN ENDS, TWO-LANE BLACKTOP BEGINS / THE DISSOLVE The old woman who hitches a ride with GTO, taking her granddaughter to visit parents killed by a “city car,” might have stepped straight out of the 19th century, or at least a John Steinbeck novel. It’s easy to lose track of not only where they are, but when. GTO, a pathological liar who tries out a new life story on every person inhis
THIRD PERSON / THE DISSOLVE There are a few subtle clues throughout Paul Haggis’ Third Person that not everything is as it appears to be. A note hastily scrawled on a notepad in a New York hotel is picked up by a character seemingly in the same hotel—even though it’s already been established that herhotel is in Paris.
UNDERDOGS / THE DISSOLVEUNDERDOGS FULL MOVIEUNDERDOGS MOVIE 2013UNDERDOGS MOVIE ONLINEUNDERDOGS SOCCER MOVIEWATCH UNDERDOG THEMOVIE
Underdog sports dramas don’t come more generic than Underdogs, which seems to have been constructed not from a screenplay, but from a computer program that converts a few simple keywords into a “product blueprint.”Though the film is loosely based on actual events, there’s scarcely a moment that doesn’t feel hackneyed; at its best, it’s like Friday Night Lights (movie or series THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY / THE DISSOLVEBRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY CASTBRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY FILMBRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY SOUNDTRACKMADISON COUNTY BRIDGES MAP The Bridges Of Madison County is about the sensuality of the everyday: the sweat of an Iowa summer, the taste of a cold soda from a steel cooler, the sensation of drinking a glass of beer while soaking in a bathtub, and so on. Eastwood and Green’s simple approach pays off with the movie’s most emotionally devastating scene, where Francesca FIVE EASY PIECES / THE DISSOLVE Five Easy Pieces is the very definition of a character study, and one of the best American cinema has produced. Nicholson’s Dupea embodies the self-destructive dissatisfaction that was common to a lot of movie characters in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but his unhappiness resonates more, because he isn’t the kind of person that usually HOW JIM CARREY’S BELIEF SYSTEM EXPLAINS HIS CHOICES, INHOW DID JIM CARREY BECOME AN ACTORJIM CARREY EARLY LIFEJIM CARREY FAITHJIM CARREY GODJIM CARREY POLITICAL VIEWSJIM CARREY RELIGIOUS BELIEFS That would be a tough pill for any actor to swallow, but it was a particularly hard one for Carrey, a man who lives his life according to the law of attraction, a belief system that argues that “‘ like attracts like ,” and that by focusing on positive or negative WHERE MAD MEN ENDS, TWO-LANE BLACKTOP BEGINS / THE DISSOLVE You can never go fast enough.” — The Driver, Two-Lane Blacktop “You can put this behind you.It’ll get easier as you move forward.” — Don Draper, Mad Men As Don Draper sped across the salt flats in the opening shots of Mad Men’s series finale, I was drawn back to a thought I’d had more than a year before: What if Mad Men turns out to be a prequel to Two-Lane Blacktop? THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY / THE DISSOLVE The Bridges Of Madison County is about the sensuality of the everyday: the sweat of an Iowa summer, the taste of a cold soda from a steel cooler, the sensation of drinking a glass of beer while soaking in a bathtub, and so on. Eastwood and Green’s simple approach pays off with the movie’s most emotionally devastating scene, where Francesca THE VIRGIN SUICIDES IS A WINDOW INTO SOFIA COPPOLA’S Sofia Coppola’s slim but remarkably cohesive five-feature filmography has established a signature shot: the window gaze. In general, Coppola’s films are filled with glass and reflective surfaces, but this specific shot—the camera looking in at a character who is looking out at the world, usually with reflections of that world appearing in the glass—distills all thewriter-director’s
THE HYPNOTIC BEAUTY AND UNIVERSAL SPECIFICITY OF SPIRITED Two Dissolve writers keep the Spirited Away conversation going. Scott: Allow me to indulge, briefly, in a personal anecdote: When my eldest daughter was 3 or 4 years old, her favorite movie was My Neighbor Totoro.And that struck me as curious for a couple of reasons: One, the pace of the film is slow and lyrical, with nothing like the freneticism of American cartoons or animated features. SOPHIE'S CHOICE / THE DISSOLVE Alan J. Pakula’s 1982 adaptation of William Styron’s 1979 novel Sophie’s Choice is one of those films whose great qualities put its lesser elements in sharp relief. Chief among the former is Meryl Streep’s performance, which garnered her first Best Actress Academy Award and helped confirm her as one of the most formidable talents ofher generation.
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