Word: obsessionals
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Crewdson returns again and again to the same territory, a scene from the suburbs or from rural America invaded by its desires and anxieties. A man attempts to lay lawn turf across the road in front of his house. A woman kneels in a flower garden that has sprung up...
When I was 14, I fell in love. This was not the first time, nor would it be the last. In fact, it wasn’t even the first time that week I had fallen in love. (Earlier things I’d fallen in love with included Jimmy...
The whole affair represents something sordid about our obsession with on-screen perfection. We have moved from adult admiration of Marilyn Monroe’s alabaster complexion to perfectly crafted and precociously sexualized children. I don’t like to think where Hollywood will take us next.
Ulliel, who looks like the young Matthew Modine's thug brother, played Audrey Tautou's beau at the battlefront in A Very Long Engagement. There, he was all innocent desperation; here, he's just moody-broody. For me, Ulliel's performance, especially in the many closeups, was upstaged by my...
Norman K. Mailer ’43 is and always has been a controversial writer. And it’s hard to think of an historical figure more synonymous with the word “controversial” than Adolf Hitler. So when Mailer publishes his first novel in a...