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Anthony Lane

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Browser: Gerard Manley Hopkins & Paul Mariani; A moratoriaum on Holocaust films?; Plus, U2, Katherine Heigl, Keanu and more 2008 Film Awards

Paul Mariani, one of my favorite poets, has now penned a new book on Gerard Manley Hopkins. Books and Culture has a review. More... * Should there be a moratorium on "Holocaust films"? Stewart Klawans thinks so. * Watch out, polygamists. Here comes Katherine Heigl. Variety reports: "Katherine Heigl

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The New Yorker's Anthony Lane on Nick Cave's "The Proposition"

Anthony Lane: ... “The Proposition,” in its morality as well as in its geography, is not just basic but Biblical. Directed by John Hillcoat, it shows humanity striving for a New Testament way of life with a Cain-and-Abel drama on the doorstep.

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Specials: Gillian Welch! Kieslowski's Veronique! The Simpsons!

Monday specials: GET WELCH The latest in an ongoing parade of exciting 2006 music headlines... Gillian Welch and David Rawlings are back in the studio working on a new album. LANE ON THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE One of my all-time favorite films has just been rediscovered by Anthony Lane

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Specials: "Bourne 3... 3 as the Wind..." Plus: Indy 4, Jurassic 4, "Capote" beats "Brokeback." Praising "The New World."

Monday is Sequel News Day! "BOURNE THREE... THREE AS THE WIND..." For updates on The Bourne Ultimatum, Indy 4, and Jurassic Park 4, click here. (Looks like Jason Bourne may have a new main squeeze. And no, it's not Ben Affleck.) NATIONAL SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS

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Revenge of the Sith reviews!

My review of Star Wars, Episode Three: Revenge of the Sith will be posted on Wednesday. There'll be a long version at CT Movies, and a MUCH more comprehensive version up at Looking Closer. Notice anything supercool about this shot? Today, CT Movies has posted my latest Reel

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Anthony Lane on "Sin City"

Here's The New Yorker's Anthony Lane on Sin City, clever as always: “Needless to say, a short course in movie history would teach them that graphic novels themselves are soaked to the bone in a style that was brought to refinement by film noir." “Rodriguez

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Before you see Fahrenheit 9/11

We can expect conservative Republicans to attack Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11." But how about the left's most notorious editorial writer? Sit down, have a bowl of popcorn and a soda, and read this brilliant response to Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit

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Move Review Quote of the Week: The Day After Tomorrow

The New Yorker's Anthony Lane, describing what happened in the theatre halfway through The Day After Tomorrow... There is no more refreshing sound than nineteen hundred people jeering in harmony at someone else’s balderdash. Lane adds: Even by the standards of disaster movies, “The Day After Tomorrow”