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Attractive notions, all. So why don't they coalesce into a fully satisfying film? In part, because they expose the show's structure as a variety program, an episodic fashion show. Each of the women in Guido's life comes on, talks about her life, performs a song, then fades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nine: Not a 10 and Certainly Not an 8-1/2 | 12/25/2009 | See Source »

Javier Bardem, the Spanish hunk who won an Oscar as the killer in No Country for Old Men, was originally to play Guido. When he dropped out, the role went to Day-Lewis, an actor nearly the opposite of Bardem. He's coiled, wary, and has a spirit that's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nine: Not a 10 and Certainly Not an 8-1/2 | 12/25/2009 | See Source »

That was a very distant time. Today, film directors prefer to make movies based on old movies, not plumb the pools of their own artistry. Hollywood looks back, not inward. Nine, directed by Rob Marshall (Chicago) and scripted by Anthony Minghella (The English Patient) and Michael Tolkin (The Player), wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nine: Not a 10 and Certainly Not an 8-1/2 | 12/25/2009 | See Source »

Only Cotillard, as Guido's long-suffering wife Luisa, is in command of her character whether she's singing, speaking or just staring darts at her philandering mate. Pain rarely seemed so proud, or hurt so regal, as in Cotillard's rendition of the melancholic rhapsody "My Husband Makes Movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nine: Not a 10 and Certainly Not an 8-1/2 | 12/25/2009 | See Source »

Perhaps because it seems intuitively true, the notion persists that running, especially when done long-term and over long distances, is bad for the joints. Indeed, it would be hard to think otherwise when with each foot strike, a runner's knee withstands a force equal to eight times his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Running Bad for Your Knees? Maybe Not | 12/25/2009 | See Source »

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