 Sunday, July 14, 2002
In the future, no one has to act
ME WITHOUT YOU by Sandra Goldbacher
Best Friends Who Are Also Worst Enemies. Sandra Goldbacher's small, psychologically savvy film is the story of a toxic friendship whose poisons circulate and infect both partners well into their adult lives. . . .The soundtrack underlines the movie's nasty Darwinian vision of the sexual hunt, in which it's not enough that you succeed; your friends must fail. . . . By Stephen Holden. [New York Times: Movies]
READ MY LIPS by Jacques Audiard
If Work Doesn't Pay, There's Always Crime. This French thriller seems destined to be remade in Hollywood, and it is unlikely to be improved by the addition of vainer actors, a simpler screenplay and flashier direction. By A. O. Scott. [New York Times: Movies]
TOSCA directed by Benoit Jacquot
A 'Tosca' That Wants You to Know It's a Movie. The director Benoît Jacquot had one advantage when a French producer invited him to make a movie version of Puccini's "Tosca." Mr. Jacquot was not an opera buff. By Alan Riding. [New York Times: Arts]
My Wife Is an Actress
That's His Wife Up There Kissing, and It's Not O.K.. In "My Wife Is an Actress," an actual husband and wife play a wife and her jealous husband. By Alan Riding. [New York Times: Movies]
Apocalyptic movies
Picturing the Worst That Can Happen. Apocalyptic movies like "Reign of Fire" and "The Road Warrior" can appeal to an unspoken wish for the world to be purged of its complexity. By Lewis Beale. [New York Times: Movies]
Jill Clayburgh NEVER AGAIN
Her Family Grown, Jill Clayburgh Is Starting Over. A part in the romantic comedy "Never Again" is Jill Clayburgh's first starring role in a feature film in more years than she can remember. By Jennet Conant. [New York Times: Movies]
John Frankenheimer R. I. P.
John Frankenheimer Is Dead at 72; Resilient Director of Feature Films and TV Movies. John Frankenheimer was one of the foremost directors of the 1960's with classic films like "The Manchurian Candidate," "Seven Days in May," "Birdman of Alcatraz" and "The Train." By Bernard Weinraub. [New York Times: Movies]
Sam Mendes Road to Perdition
Just-High-Enough Art. Sam Mendes has directed only two films, but he seems to have already mastered a coveted Hollywood formula: the commercially viable prestige pic. By Lynn Hirschberg. [New York Times: Movies]
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