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Get Low Review

Release Date: July 30 Director: Aaron Schneider Writers: Chris Provenzano, C. Gaby Mitchell Cinematographer: David Boyd Starring: Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray, Lucas Black Studio: Sony Pictures Classics A forgettable fable Get Low, a glacially-paced portrait of real-life Southern boogeyman Felix “Bush” Breazeale, does little to broaden the scope of American mythology set to celluloid. Robert Duvall stars as the woods-secluded protagonist, who stages a funeral for himself before he’s dead, inviting anyone who’s willing to recount one of the fantastical, widely-told yarns about his life. Even with this rich premise, Get Low’s linear narrative is far too bare-bones...  read more

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Release Date: April 30 Director/Writer: Nicole Holofcener Cinematographer: Yaron Orbach Starring: Catherine Keener, Rebecca Hall, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Sarah Steele Studio/Run Time: Sony Pictures Classics, 90 mins. Whining and Pining in New York Nicole Holofcener’s fourth film begins with some of the saddest breasts ever committed to film, as a radiology technician (Rebecca Hall) administers a series of mammograms. It’s the film’s cleverest sequence, a comic desexualizing of human flesh. It’s also a feint, as Holofcener is not interested in any of the boob’s symbolic virtues. Her story is about that most tedious of subjects: white, liberal,...  read more

Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, NY in talks with Sony

More than two months after the 2008 Cannes Film Festival came to a close and Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, NY startled...  read more