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Blondes in hell via Dunst, Williams, and Mulligan
The first in this fall’s triad of tragic blondes arrives in movie theaters today—Kirsten Dunst, her hair a little whiter than usual, as if it’s been irradiated or shampooed in mercury, plays the...
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Carey Mulligan Sought as Lead in Remake of “Far From the Madding Crowd”
The Danish fimmaker Thomas Vinterberg is in talks with the British production company DNA to direct a new version of Thomas Hardy’s 1874 “Far From the Madding Crowd,” his fourth novel and his first...
View ArticleViral Love for a Muted Color Clip of 1926 London
They’re the flappers of the week – but neither of them is Carey Mulligan’s Daisy Buchanan. In a Vimeo clip from Claude Friese-Greene’s silent 1924-26 “The Open Road,” which has gone viral on the...
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Roads to Nowhere in the Coen Brothers’“Inside Llewyn Davis”
Joel and Ethan Coen’s anti-mythic “Inside Llewyn Davis,” which begins in medias res in 1961, follows the downward spiral of the eponymous working-class singer-guitarist (Oscar Isaac) on the New York...
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The Dream Logic of “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Is Joel and Ethan Coen’s “Inside Llewyn Davis” the representation of a nightmare, as were David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive”? Toward the end of the Coens’ depiction of the...
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