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Game is written and directed by Liliana Cavani (best known for 1974’s classic Nazi-sadomasochism sex fantasy The Night Porter) and her touch shows. She gives Ripley’s relationship with his Italian girlfriend a tender eroticism that makes his evil all the more human and frightening: it’s clear that he thinks of himself as an intelligent sophisticate living the life of his dreams, with no remorse. It is because he is so capable of love—of women, art and food, life’s finer pleasures—that...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DVD Review: Ripley's Game | 4/16/2004 | See Source »

...office and off his ass, Sceery had managed to fly into Cambridge for the weekend. He was glad to visit his girlfriend here, but wondered if he’d still have his job on Monday. “I’m at a period in my life where I have the most enthusiasm for adventure, no responsibilities or attachments, but instead I decided to spend 17 hours a day in an office seven days a week. It makes you start to wonder,” he says...

Author: By Wendy D. Widman, | Title: Banking on Pain | 4/15/2004 | See Source »

Seemingly intelligent high school student Leland P. Fitzgerald (Ryan Gosling) has just killed an autistic boy for no clear reason. In Juvenile Hall, he has to come to terms with what he has done. Outside, his alcoholic father (Kevin Spacey), his girlfriend (Jena Malone) and others in the community grapple with the repercussions of this terrible act of violence. What does it mean for their community? Although many critics have mocked it as a now predictable execration of the darkness behind modern suburbia, in this time of school shootings and anti-depressants, this is certain to be interesting and intentionally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 4/9/2004 | See Source »

Leland, played by rising star Ryan Gosling (The Believer), is a teenage killer, the child of a stable suburban home who commits the unthinkably brutal act of killing the autistic brother of his girlfriend, played by Jena Malone...

Author: By Lucy F.V. Lindsey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Leland Brings Murder and Smiles | 4/9/2004 | See Source »

Malone, who until now has interrupted only with laughter, is confronted with a similar question on how she related to her character, Leland’s heroin-addicted girlfriend and sister of the victim. “Funny you should ask,” she jokes, eyes darting around the circle of reporters, “because I had them give me my paycheck in needles...

Author: By Lucy F.V. Lindsey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Leland Brings Murder and Smiles | 4/9/2004 | See Source »

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