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...quirky hits Thank You for Smoking and Juno, and who shares screenplay credit with Sheldon Turner, soft-pedals the satire and pumps up Ryan's relationships with Alex and Natalie. The movie's development of three strong personalities, each with grails the others don't seek, shows a maturity rare in modern movies. So does Reitman's refusal to judge any of the three. He doesn't force comeuppance or redemption upon them...
...these caricatures. And Larry was made to be intimidated, ignored, abused. He is a passive protagonist whose plight earns him as much pity as sympathy. So A Serious Man, which has its world premiere tonight at the Toronto Film Festival before opening in theaters Oct. 2, is a rare event in movies, where action is character. It's certainly rare for the Coens, in that this is one fable - Miller's Crossing might be another - that is worth taking seriously. (See the 10 best Coen brothers moments...
...bottom line: never fear, soon the Yard will go back to smelling the way it always does—that rare combination of naiveté, pretension, and the collegiate spirit...
...Kelly said she was particularly thrilled about the prospect of engaging with the Harvard community beyond her own research. “The whole University is available on all levels of faculty and students and all the events going on, and it’s just a rare opportunity to be exposed to so many exciting people and interesting issues and topics and events,” Kelly said. —Staff writer Evan T.R. Rosenman can be reached at erosenm@fas.harvard.edu...
...turns them for the better. “You can push me away, but I cannot let you go / try as you may, no, I cannot let you go,” sings Lerche. A very typical pop lyric, but here, sung by Lerche, it is filled with a rare sense of optimism, brought out by the playful rhyme. Sondre Lerche is really just an extraordinarily pleasant everyman, whose magic resides in incorporating jazz pianos and orchestral strings in his music while managing to stay completely unassuming and unpretentious. His music may lack originality, but that won?...