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    Articles by Melissa Anderson
    Cotillard's trainer gets too close to the whale.
    To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, one must have a...
    By Melissa Anderson • January 8, 2013 12:00 am

    To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, one must have a heart of stone to watch Jacques Audiard’s outrageous melodrama without laughing. Loosely…

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    Gerwig in Frances Ha.
    My 10 Film Picks for 2013
    By Melissa Anderson • January 2, 2013 12:00 am

    Most of the blathering this year about the death of film and film culture has already evaporated from the mind,…

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    Leo plays another blue-collar recovery case.
    Francine: Melissa Leo Embraces Her Typecasting
    By Melissa Anderson • December 31, 2012 12:00 am

    Simultaneously withholding and smothering, Francine, about a woman just released from prison, provides Melissa Leo (in the title role) another…

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    Watts as storm survivor.
    The Impossible: Naomi Watts Versus the Tsunami
    By Melissa Anderson • December 31, 2012 12:00 am

    When the words “true story” appear twice in a film’s opening disclaimer, it’s a guarantee that what follows will include…

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    The physician (Hoss) seeks to flee.
    Barbara A Superb Story Set in East Germany
    By Melissa Anderson • December 18, 2012 12:00 am

    Set in East Germany in 1980, Christian Petzold’s superb Barbara is a transfixing Cold War thriller made even more vivid…

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    Prospective parents Dillahunt (left) and Cumming.
    Any Day Now: Alan Cumming in a Gay...
    By Melissa Anderson • December 11, 2012 12:00 am

    Homo history repurposed as courtroom soap opera. Director Travis Fine, greatly embellishing a script written decades ago by George Arthur…

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    Willis and Hall aren't so lucky with their script.
    Lay the Favorite: Bruce Willis in a Lightweight...
    By Melissa Anderson • December 4, 2012 12:00 am

    A wan comedy about gambling that takes no risks, Stephen Frears’ Lay the Favorite has none of the stinging sordidness…

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    Fass in his studio.
    Radio Unnameable: Remember When Talk Radio Was Actually...
    By Melissa Anderson • November 27, 2012 12:00 am

    A sporadically hard-selling homage to a cult hero from an overchronicled era, Radio Unnameable considers the career of Bob Fass,…

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    Lavant reprises his ogre character from the Tokyo! anthology (also directed by Carax).
    Holy Motors: Leos Carax’s Unclassifiable Comeback
    By Melissa Anderson • November 20, 2012 12:00 am

    Unclassifiable, expansive, and breathtaking, Leos Carax’s Holy Motors stars Denis Lavant, the simian, sinewy actor who played the lead in…

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    Ornette Coleman at the 1967 Monterey Jazz Festival.
    Ornette: Made in America: The 1985 Jazz Documentary...
    By Melissa Anderson • November 13, 2012 12:00 am

    The invaluable American independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke (1919–1997) once said: “There is no real difference between a traditional fiction film…

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    One of Bestiaire's four-legged stars.
    Bestiaire: Denis Cote Goes to the Zoo
    By Melissa Anderson • November 13, 2012 12:00 am

    The Parc Safari in Hemmingford, Quebec, is, per its website, home to 500 animals of 75 different species; its goal…

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    Director Eugene Jarecki.
    The House I Live In: The Real Cost...
    By Melissa Anderson • November 6, 2012 12:00 am

    Eugene Jarecki’s Sundance award-winning doc is an occasionally muddled disquisition on the colossal failure of the war on drugs. It…

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    Macy as a very permissive man of the cloth.
    The Sessions: John Hawkes and Helen Hunt Have...
    By Melissa Anderson • October 30, 2012 12:00 am

    “You were really and truly inside me,” Helen Hunt’s sex surrogate Cheryl assures her client, 36-year-old Mark O’Brien (John Hawkes),…

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    Vreeland in her famous red room.
    Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel: Remembering...
    By Melissa Anderson • October 16, 2012 12:00 am

    Raconteuse, epigrammatist, and mythomaniac, peerless fashion editor Diana Vreeland (1903–1989) might have loved words as much as she loved Balenciaga….

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    Cotillard at the beach.
    Little White Lies: Marion Cotillard Goes on Vacation
    By Melissa Anderson • September 25, 2012 12:00 am

    This bloated spin on The Big Chill follows a septet of grating, mostly Gen-X Parisians as they half-guiltily decide to…

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    The happy central couple.
    Planet of Snail: They’re Not Disabled. They’re Married
    By Melissa Anderson • September 4, 2012 12:00 am

    An unadorned, unsentimental portrait of a marriage, Yi Seung-jun’s documentary celebrates the daily life of an exceptionally collaborative couple. Young-chan…

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    The same old song? Sagnier with Radivoje Bukvic.
    Beloved: Catherine Deneuve Sings Across Time
    By Melissa Anderson • August 28, 2012 12:00 am

    Writer/director Christophe Honoré revisits the musical—the genre of his biggest stateside hit, Love Songs (2007)—in Beloved, a sprawling mess of…

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    All the ladies love Marie (Kruger).
    Farewell, My Queen: Palace Intrigue Before the Revolution
    By Melissa Anderson • July 24, 2012 12:00 am

    Benoît Jacquot’s soapy, sexy, lezzie adaptation of Chantal Thomas’ 2003 novel about the chaos at Versailles on the eve of…

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    Williams and Rogen on shaky marital ground.
    Take This Waltz: Michelle Williams Strays Into Temptation
    By Melissa Anderson • July 10, 2012 12:00 am

    Sarah Polley’s second feature, much like her superb Away From Her (2006), thoughtfully probes the pitfalls of coupledom and third-party…

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    Wallis out to sea.
    Beasts of the Southern Wild: A Half-Charming, Half-Annoying...
    By Melissa Anderson • July 10, 2012 12:00 am

    A zealous gumbo of regionalism, magical realism, post-Katrina allegory, myth, and ecological parable, Beasts, the southern Louisiana-set debut feature of…

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    Rape remains underreported in the U.S. military.
    The Invisible War: The U.S. Army Would Like...
    By Melissa Anderson • July 10, 2012 12:00 am

    In this documentary, Kirby Dick lays bare the scandalous epidemic of rape in the U.S. armed forces—the war on women…

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    Sad scenery from south of the border.
    El Velador: The Human Costs of Mexico’s Drug...
    By Melissa Anderson • July 2, 2012 12:00 am

    Only once is the director’s voice heard in Natalia Almada’s ruminative yet potent documentary about the carnage that has piled…

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    Gyllenhaal: not your average Victorian.
    Hysteria: Maggie Gyllenhaal Helps Invent the Vibrator
    By Melissa Anderson • June 12, 2012 12:00 am

    The origin story of a beloved bedroom gadget, Hysteria, set in London in the 1880s, proceeds as a tedious, clumsy…

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