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...it’s there all the same. Take his latest offbeat dramedy, Sideways—a perverse buddy movie in which two aging male friends (Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church) while away an hour or two competing for the title of most pathetically humiliated. By the film’s end, there is something of redemption for the pair, but there have been ample injuries along the way—and Church’s broken nose pales in comparison to the psychic wounds both suffer. Or consider Election, Payne’s 1999 film, the last third...
...meaningful addition to his life and legacy. With a mix of deceitful, manipulative Hollywood storytelling techniques masquerading as artistic strokes and tacky, unfocused, pop filmmaking, director Taylor Hackford manages to turn an amazing story of sheer will triumphing over adversity into a two-and-a-half hour mess that will damage Charles’ memory...
...squeaky southern drawl, Foxx has Charles dead on. But with a script devoid of any genuine emotion, and a filmmaker who isn’t quite sure what he’s doing, Foxx’s performance does not resonate. It bears a greater resemblance to a three hour-long impression rather than an Oscar-worthy performance. Foxx is acting, and doing a damned fine job of it, but one knows this: the transparent, shallow notions embodied in the script cannot be hidden by Foxx’s technical skills...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones along with the Callbacks put on their Fall Jam with the theme “A Halloween Double Feature,” but the 3-hour concert hopefully won’t scare you into never wanting to hear a capella again. The real question is whether they will sing “Walking in Memphis” one more time this fall. Tickets available from the Harvard Box Office. $10; students and seniors $7. 8 p.m. Sanders Theatre...
...College Dems also encouraged attendees to canvass for presidential candidate John F. Kerry in New Hampshire this weekend. By the end of the rally, which drew 200 people over the course of an hour, more than 100 people had signed...