September 2012
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Screen Play: TIFF 2012 Argo
The stars: Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Bryan Cranston, Chris Messina, and many others The gist: Affleck directs the fluid, entertaining political thriller during which a group of CIA agents concocts a ruse to free six American hostages from Tehran during the Iranian revolution. The ruse? They’re posing as a Canadian film crew making a movie about a cosmic war called Argo. Lots of...
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Screen Play: TIFF 2012 At Any Price
The stars: Zac Efron, Dennis Quaid, Heather Graham The gist: The Zefron channels Cole Trickle to play Dean Whipple, a farm boy speed racer with daddy issues. From Ramin Bahrani (Chop Shop, Man Push Cart) comes an American story with great writing, smart direction, and beautiful lighting, even if it is a little corny at times. The buzz: Aside from Lee Daniels’s The Paperboy, we...
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Screen Play: TIFF 2012 To the Wonder
The stars: Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Olga Kurylenko, and Javier Bardem The gist: A couple falls in love in France and out of love in the States. Similar to The Tree of Life (same concept, same crew), Terrence Malick’s follow-up settles in the windy plains of Oklahoma, where the actors whisper their lines, Emmanuel Lubezki’s camera floats through classic Americana, and Hanan...
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WatchWe liken Benz’s collection to a bouquet of roses from a significant other, except better.
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