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Fulfilling the boundless promise exhibited in her debut effort, The Virgin Suicides, director Sofia Coppola crafts a sublime love letter to both Tokyo and transitory friendship with her newest film, Lost in Translation. Hollywood star Bob Harris (Bill Murray) has been shipped off to Japan to hawk Suntory whiskey to the natives. There he encounters Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), the beautiful wife of a photographer who spends much of her day staring out her window in hopes of somehow finding herself within the city’s skyline. The pair are soon discovering Tokyo culture and a profundity in their friendship...
...boyfriend (Derek Luke), embarks on a mishap-filled day of cooking and decoration to prepare her humble New York apartment for a Thanksgiving dinner with her estranged family (headed by Oliver Platt and Patricia Clarkson). Pieces of April showcases homegrown storytelling at its best and marks a strong directorial debut by Peter Hedges (the screenwriter behind About...
...Sarandon), but she is too late. In a plot twist that could only have been dreamt up by a man, Sarandon is seduced by Deneuve—leading to one of the hottest sex scenes in recent movie history. This subtle and haunting film is an odd major directorial debut for Tony Scott of Top Gun and Spy Game fame, whose later films epitomized the antithesis of understatement...
Freshmen Clifton Dawson and Sean Barrett, a football player and a cross country athlete, respectively, have been running like men with a price on their heads in their debut seasons wearing Crimson...
...supporting cast works together very well. Morton mixes irony and earnestness splendidly, showing tremendous promise in her Harvard debut. Sara Petersen, as Foustka’s long-suffering love interest Marketa, starts her attraction to him suitably wide-eyed and ends it in a disturbingly potent way. Cassie Fliegel ’06, A.J. Wolosenko ’06, and Andrew Shimomura all turn in entertaining performances as Foustka’s sycophantic coworkers (Shimomura doing far and away the best job of the three), and Rowan Dorin ’07 does the same as a lower-level manager...