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...That's the urgent odor that this year attached itself to The Orphanage, a Spanish thriller written by Sergio G. Sanchez, directed by first-timer Juan Antonio Bayona and shown in the little-attended Critics' Week section. The movie does have a pedigree: it was executive-produced by Guillermo Del Toro, the Mexican filmmaker whose Pan's Labyrinth had its world premiere at last year's festival before becoming a surprise hit and an Oscar-winner in the States. The Orphanage has the same vital vibe: the sense that all crafts of filmmaking are bent to leading us into another...
...grant that the movie is indebted to dozens of previous psychological thrillers, from Psycho and The Haunting (a tingly scene where Laura feels someone snuggle into her bed, thinks its Carlos, then is shocked to see him enter the room), from the Spanish Spirit of the Beehive to Del Toro's own The Devil's Backbone. And there are moments when plausibility takes a back seat to the need to make Laura stay one or two more nights in the condemned manor - when she does things because, well, because it's a scary movie. But there will be other moments...
...magazine next to the headline “She’s an Antismoking Crusader”—was chosen from thousands of applicants. Glamour selected Pasricha for her global movement, which began in 2001 when she organized a group of peers in her hometown of Hockessin, Del. to push for the Delaware Clean Indoor Air Act, which bans smoking in the state’s public establishments. The act was passed in March 2003. Pasricha said that her biggest challenge came when speaking at the legislative hearings weighing the bill. “One of the legislators...
...relentlessness; the film is fascinated with the expertise and poise under pressure of desperate men whose time is running out. For an hour and 40 mins. the film never lets up, deftly charting the itineraries of Moss, Chigurh and Bell as they lurch toward a triangular showdown a a Del Rio motel...
Spain in the war-torn '40s is the setting for this anti-Franco, pro-magic fairy tale. If you were wondering what all the critical rapture and Oscar nominations were about, make your move now. Guillermo del Toro's fable is definitely not for kids, but it is a fable--about a child (Irana Baquero, above) who escapes from real nightmares into an eerie, fulfilling wonderland--that is as potent and scary as the great early Disney cartoon features. Except there is no happy ending...