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Articles by Sheila Benson
The Sea Inside
The Sea Inside
By Sheila Benson • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

New Line Home Ent., $27.95.

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Gosford Park
Gosford Park
By Sheila Benson • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

GOSFORD PARK Universal Home Video, $19.95 SINCE ONCE IS not nearly enough for the interweavings of Robert Altman’s sublime Gosford…

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Wah-Wah
Wah-Wah
By Sheila Benson • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

Richard E. Grant makes good use of his Swaziland youth.

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Author Adams writes his own story.
Tribes
By Sheila Benson • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

Artist confronts gulf between two communities.

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Wexler Sr. behind the camera.
Focus on the Family
By Sheila Benson • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

A SIFF documentary shows how filmmakers are increasingly finding the most compelling subjects under the same roof.

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Jamie Foxx as Seattle's own Ray Charles: live on Lonely Avenue.
Oscar on His Mind
By Sheila Benson • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

Jamie Foxx steps into greatness portraying the musical legend. So who’s to quibble over a little extra melodrama?

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Mikey & Nicky
Mikey & Nicky
By Sheila Benson • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

Home Vision Ent., $29.95

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Staunton as Vera: Beatrix Potter gets nicked.
No Choice
By Sheila Benson • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

A do-gooder’s moral impulses lead her into illegality, where family loyalties turn out to be even more fraught than abortion politics.

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The Triplets in their 30s prime.
The Triplets of Belleville
By Sheila Benson • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

Who needs modern CGI animation? This charming French throwback takes its cues from the past.

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The ever-cool Delon.
Le Cercle Rouge: Noir Classic Gets Longer and...
By Sheila Benson • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE’S 1970 Le Cercle Rouge is a breath of bitingly crisp air, even in an atmosphere thick with smoke…

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Polley checks off her list.
My Life Without Me: Modern-Day Camille Is Fatally...
By Sheila Benson • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

A TERMINALLY INFURIATING sniffler, My Life Without Me (which opens Friday, Oct. 17, at the Harvard Exit) offers radiant selfishness…

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Takeshi "Beat" Kitano—writer, director, editor, and star—is Zatoichi incarnate.
The Rogue Blade
By Sheila Benson • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

Adding humor—and even dance—gives a fresh edge to an old martial-arts hero.

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Ryan takes a walk on the wild side.
In the Cut: Meg Ryan Finds Danger in...
By Sheila Benson • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

JANE CAMPION’S FILMSSweetie, The Piano, The Portrait of a Lady, and Holy Smoke among themare never ordinary, never alike, never…

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The well-traveled Moffat en route to Austria following WWII.
Not-So-Close Encounter
By Sheila Benson • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

A Hollywood aristocrat remains as elusive in death as he was in life.

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Small World
Small World
By Sheila Benson • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

Pauline Kael, 1919-2001

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Brothers Garin (left) and Dobronravov make fleeting sport of their ominous road trip.
Father Russia
By Sheila Benson • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

A prodigal dad reclaims his sons for an ominous journey from the mysterious into the mythic— and the magnificent.

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A portrait of self-indulgence: Bridges plays the artist as both light and dark.
Starman
By Sheila Benson • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

Forget John Irving, Jeff Bridges is the real anchor of this sex-drenched, grief-wrenched literary adaptation. Will a fifth Oscar nomination follow?

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Duvall puts himself at the center of Tango.
Assassination Tango: Robert Duvall Follows His Bliss With...
By Sheila Benson • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

It’s no fun when a favorite artist takes a leap and misses, even worse when it’s someone as clearly adventurous…

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Rueda is drawn to Bardem's strength.
Last Rights
By Sheila Benson • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

Family, more than euthanasia, is the most powerful force in this compelling drama.

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Saintly maid (Vega, left), crazy wife (Leoni, center), and saintly husband (Sandler): is Brooks dissing his own ex?
A House Divided
By Sheila Benson • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

A Bel Air marriage goes sour. Naturally, it’s the wife’s fault.

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Rampling and Nolot try to look ahead.
Into the waves
By Sheila Benson • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

Memory washes a widow between present and past.

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Concerned parents Goodman and Hagerty.
Your friends and neighbors
By Sheila Benson • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

More dysfunction viewed through an unforgiving lens.

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Cinematographer Haskell Wexler (left) just tells son Mark how it's done.
Good News From Up North
By Sheila Benson • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

The Toronto Film Festival had choice pickings this month. Now if only SIFF can cherry-pick its prize titles next spring.

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