Based on a short story by Nobel laureate Alice Munro, HATESHIP LOVESHIP is built around a beautifully understated performance by Kristen Wiig as a Plain Jane with an unexpectedly rich...
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Wet-behind-the-ears Vlaminck (Personnaz of ANNA KARENINA) is a fledgling speechwriter for the vain, mercurial French foreign minister (Lhermitte of THE DINNER GAME) in the throes of a crisis involving fictional Ludmenistan. Absurdity reigns, a cat prowls the desks, and choice sight-gags punctuate petty quarrels, make-work assignments, and the occasional battle of the sexes.
Filmed piecemeal over a period of four years and financed mainly out of the director’s own pocket, OTHELLO marked the beginning of Welles’s career as an independent filmmaker. A model...
What if 17th-century painter Johannes Vermeer, famed for the realism of masterpieces like “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” were unmasked as merely a brilliant copyist? That is in part the...
