Word: jakes
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Were the actors intimidated to be directed by the guy who created Travis Bickle [of Taxi Driver] and Jake La Motta [of Raging Bull...
...that Soderbergh is counting on style to distract us from the familiarity, not to say banality, of the narrative that Paul Attanasio has winnowed out of novelist Joseph Kanon's rather good thriller. What we have here are two standard noir characters. There's the hard-shelled antihero, Jake Geismer (George Clooney), returning to Berlin, where he was a foreign correspondent before the war. His ostensible business is to cover the Potsdam conference. His real interest is in seeing whether the great love of his life, Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett), has survived and might possibly still love him. It takes...
...grow into huge moral issues, lending false (and queasy) importance to what is essentially an entertainment. Not that the movie doesn't have its great performances. This being Berlin in 1945, there's a whole lot of whoring and black-marketeering going on, at the center of which is Jake's driver, Corporal Tully, who is played, in a striking bit of off-casting, by Tobey Maguire as one of those utterly chilling rogues who think they're charming...
...Reviewer Jake G. Cohen can be reached at jgcohen@fas.harvard.edu...
...Sinister Turns.Yale’s representatives were chosen largely at random, based on groups Min and Hufstedler were able to contact using the all-encompassing powers of Facebook.com.11:12 a.m.—Tuning quietly beside the stage is one such Yalie. Sophomore Jake A. Garza is the singer/guitarist for a self-described “scream-o/emo” band called Cut-Rate Heroic. Last year, he led his group to victory at a Yale-wide Battle of the Bands. Today, Garza isn’t feeling the pressure.“I don?...