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59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
2013
This is great stuff - a fantastic musical documentary.
Lowery's nostalgia works because it is so sincere and does not question America's fascination with Bonnie and Clyde as an excuse for bad deeds.
It's a courageous performance in more ways than one.
It is quite something to witness Douglas and Damon embrace the characters quite so authentically.
Blue Jasmine has all the wit and insight of classics from Allen's autumnal period.
Visually arresting, impressively taut and enjoyably idiosyncratic.
Director Drake Doremus handles the material superbly, aware of its pitfalls and sensitive to all the vagaries of human behaviour which make these characters so intriguing.
The story told is generally more interesting than the telling of it.
The film takes an even-handed view of its main protagonist, illustrating faults on both sides of the divide.
Cage takes commanding ownership of the somewhat familiar material and milieu.
The nagging thought during the 90 minutes is how far two these one-time Hollywood’s A-listers have fallen.
A fascinating watch.
Undoubtedly a classy mainstream product.
Deeply tedious and bereft of purpose.
The film’s simplicity is its strength.
Few portrayals of autism spectrum disorders in film have ever had the authenticity of this.
Ambyr Childers conveys the pressure the world-weary Iris is under brilliantly, while Julia Garner shines as the otherworldly Rose.
Once the explosions begin to kick in the film concentrates on Tatum and Foxx on the run - an easy-going and watchable pairing that displays real chemistry.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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