2 articles from 2008
17 June 2008 7:36 AM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news
Woody Allen’s “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” is scheduled to open Sept. 5, 2008, and Cinematical just posted the first official poster, which you can see below. I think it’s a pretty simple poster, but there’s something about it that intrigues me. Maybe it’s the framing, or the fact that they all have their eyes closed.
Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall star as two girlfriends who, during their vacation in Spain, fall for a charming painter played by Javier Bardem. Little do they know that his ex-wife (Penelope Cruz) is also back in the race for his heart. Patricia Clarkson, Chris Messina and Kevin Dunn co-star.
Franck Tabouring
7 March 2008 7:15 AM, PST | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news
By Matt Singer
By the end of "Married Life," the characters have caused each other a great deal of harm in order to better their own lives, and they know it. Is it wrong, they wonder, to build one's happiness on the unhappiness of others? If it is, that makes going to the movies one of the most immoral acts you can do. What are movies, after all, if not the vicarious enjoyment of the suffering of others?
There's plenty of suffering here, and thus plenty to enjoy. The film focuses on four people living at the turn of the 1950s and the damage they do to one another. Harry (Chris Cooper) is married to Pat (Patricia Clarkson), but their relationship chilled some time ago. Harry confides to his best friend Richard (Pierce Brosnan) that he wants something more out of a woman than just "the sex" by way of introducing him to his mistress,
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Matt Singer
2 articles from 2008