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...Jean-Louis Trintignant) committed to one woman (Marie-Christine Barrault) but willing to stay the night with the divorced Maud (Françoise Fabian) just ... talking. After the pyrotechnics of Godard and Truffaut, some wondered if Rohmer had made a film or a radio play. But, as critic Andrew Sarris wisely observed, there's nothing more cinematic than the sight of a man and a woman talking at 3 a.m. in the dark night of the soul. Man and Maud connected with each other, and with the specialized moviegoing world. (See pictures from the red carpet at Cannes...
...brother Frankie (Michael Dorman), a soldier in the vampire army, brings him a birthday bottle of vintage blood (sang-real-a?), Edward snaps, "I've turned 35 10 times. Birthdays are pointless," and adds the philosophical, "Life's a bitch, and then you don't die." (Salon's film critic, Stephanie Zacharek, has a better version - "Life sucks, and then you don't die" - but unfortunately that line isn't in the movie.) (Read "Twilight and True Blood at Comic...
Observing the critic's code of scrupulous fairness, I have to say that Leap Year becomes very nearly bearable in the last reel, when the two leads can finally radiate a little mutual charisma. That's mostly thanks to Goode, who had what we'll call the Jeremy Irons role in the 2008 Brideshead Revisited remake, and who is Colin Firth's lover in A Single Man. Here he agreeably inhabits his character even as he somehow stands outside the film, fixing it with the same skeptical eye Declan focuses on Anna. "The countryside's pretty...
...while driving to work. His car was followed by two motorcycles, which blocked his path as the gunmen shot him through the driver-side window, when he was just five minutes away from his office. He was rushed to the hospital but died after surgery. Wickrematunge was a staunch critic of the Mahinda Rajapaksa administration, and his murder came in the middle of the government's final offensive to crush the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The government did not brook any criticism of its conduct of the war, but even since declaring victory last May things...
Sperber, who was a vocal Bobby Knight critic when he taught at Indiana University, predicts that more players will come forward to report boorish behavior by coaches. "College coaches are going to be watched more closely," he says. The risk of long-term health damage from concussions, he adds, will likely spur more players to turn on coaches who put their health at risk...