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Review of The Fortune Cookie (1966)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 02 Jul 2005

Though not top-notch Billy Wilder, this cynical satire about an unscrupulous lawyer and a TV cameraman benefits from good acting by Walter…

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Review of The Accidental Tourist (1988)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 01 Jul 2005

Kasdan's film lacks the spirit of Tyler's novel; he seems to be the wrong director to translate the author's affectionate and humorous treatment…

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Review of Altered States (1980)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 01 Jul 2005

Though deviating from Paddy Chayefsky's script (and novel), the reliably flamboyant Ken Russell made a spooky but engaging psycho-horror film…

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Review of Gorillas in the Mist (1988)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 01 Jul 2005

Sigourney Weaver gives a towering, Oscar caliber performance in Michael Apted's biopic about courageous anthropologist Dian Fossey who devoted…

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Review of Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 01 Jul 2005

While not one of Truffaut's strongest film, it is nonetheless one of his few explicitly political works and also boasts sharp imagery by Roeg)…

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Review of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 30 Jun 2005

A Gothic Hollywood horror tale at its most grotesque, Robert Aldrich's Oscar-nominated film revitalzed the careers of both Bette Davis (overacting)…

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Review of The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 30 Jun 2005

Not as good as the original, but not entirely dismissable…

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Review of Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 30 Jun 2005

Grim yet compelling, downbeat but not really depressing, Mike Figgis' multi-nuanced portrait of an alcoholic, splendidly played by Oscar winner…

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Review of Husbands (1970)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 30 Jun 2005

Largely dismissed in 1970, Husbands is not one of the helmer's best films, but a flawed Cassavetes is still worth watching and this mid-career…

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Review of An Affair to Remember (1957)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 30 Jun 2005

Starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in the Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne roles, Leo McCarey's remake of his 1937 Love Affair has some touching…

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Review of Jacknife (1989)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 29 Jun 2005

This Vietnam vet melodrama is extremely well acted by De Niro, Ed Harris, and Kathy Baker…

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Review of Full Metal Jacket (1987)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 29 Jun 2005

Though shot in the U.K…

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Review of City Slickers (1991)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 29 Jun 2005

The movie begins as a mildly amusing comedy about spoiled city brats taking a cattle drive before turning into a serio and predictable tale…

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Review of Last Days (2005)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 29 Jun 2005

Just like Gerry and Elephant, a rigorous minimalism marks this meditation on Cobain's last days; the imagery is haunting but narrative is frustrating…

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Review of Evil Angels (1988)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 29 Jun 2005

Meryl Streep gives another stellar performance in this fact-based Australian drama about a working class woman accused of killing her daughter…

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Review of Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 29 Jun 2005

Minnelli's first triumph and one of Hollwood best musicals, displaying the director's concept of integrated musical with dazzling color and…

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Review of Last Days (2004)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 29 Jun 2005

Just like Gerry and Elephant, a rigorous minimalism marks this meditation on Cobain's last days; the imagery is haunting but narrative is frustrating…

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Review of Equus (1977)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 29 Jun 2005

The acting of Richard Burton and Peter Firth in their Oscar-nominated turns is good, but writer Shaffer and Sidney Lumet can't really open up the play…

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Review of Capturing the Friedmans (2003)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 29 Jun 2005

Probing into the elusive nature of truth, through the prism of one Jewish family, this is one of the most perplexing and disturbing docus in…

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Review of Last Days (2014)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 29 Jun 2005

Just like Gerry and Elephant, a rigorous minimalism marks this meditation on Cobain's last days; the imagery is haunting but narrative is frustrating…

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