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Remakes

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On Movies & Media

Remake and Hum

The prolific French director Patrice Leconte made a wonderful movie called Man on the Train several years ago about a professor and a bank robber who trade lives for a day. A Canadian remake is now underway starring Donald Sutherland and... wait... really? LARRY MULLEN JR.?
26 Apr 2010
On Movies & Media

In the Olympics of Stupid Movie Ideas, America Keeps Winning Gold.

So, the filmmaker Olivier Assayas makes a beautiful, poetic film called Summer Hours, which ends up among the handful of movies most celebrated by critics in 2009. It's hard to find any fault with it. It explores a broad array of subjects - art history, nostalgia, globalism, family
17 Feb 2010 2 min read
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