Category Archives: Reviews & Commentary
Lake Tahoe: The Style of Absence
There’s a lot of absence in Fernando Eimbcke’s odd but ultimately moving film Lake Tahoe. Reason, for one thing, and Plot, at least initially, as well as smooth transitions. Eimbcke simply cuts to black, sometimes staying there many seconds before … Continue reading
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Tagged absence, Diego Catano, Fernando Eimbcke, Lake Tahoe, movie style, Reviews by Richard R. Guzman, style
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The Freshman: All in the Family?
The Freshman is the one film I’d take to a desert island. It’s my favorite movie—though I know it’s not great—partly because it parodies one of my favorite great movies, The Godfather. Clark Kellogg (Matthew Broderick) goes to NYU as … Continue reading
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Tagged A doorway on Boylston St., Al Pacino, Bert Parks, Bruno Kirby, family, Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Maximilian Schell, Paul Benedict, Penelope Ann Miller, Reviews by Richard R. Guzman, The Freshman, The Godfather, The Godfather 2
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10 Reasons Why Muslims Can’t Be Good Americans
Yesterday an acquaintance forwarded this to me in an email. It’s a typical piece of web debris, asking you to please not delete it before you pass it on to as many of your friends as possible. So I am … Continue reading →