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...Donen's 1963 comic thriller is about a young American widow (the ever-stylish Audrey Hepburn) on the run in Paris from a trio of criminals who think she can lead them to the fortune her late husband stole from them. The is-he-or-isn't-he-trustworthy stranger who takes her under his wing is Cary Grant. The digital transfer is every bit as lustrous as what Kurosawa and Ingmar Bergman get. The sprightly commentary track - a feature, by the way, that Criterion pretty much invented when it was putting films out on laser disc in the 1980s...
...Stranger Than FictionDirected by Marc ForsterColumbia Pictures & Mandate Pictures3 starsSorry, frat-boys. “Stranger Than Fiction” isn’t the sequel to “Anchorman” that you’ve all been waiting for. Though its trailer frames it as a typical Will Ferrell comedy, he spends an astonishingly small amount of his screen-time screaming wildly. Directed by Marc Forster (“Finding Neverland”), “Stranger Than Fiction” centers on Harold Crick (Ferrell), an obsessive-compulsive workaholic who suddenly discovers that his life...
...care which movie / I just wanna get some popcorn and make it salty.” “Lift Ya Skirt” and “ODB, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” recall glory-days ODB, and these two trips through his stranger-than-fiction Brooklyn soundscape reward the listener for slogging through the muddy slop that fills the rest of the album. But really, were we expecting anything else? The unpredictable, hit-or-miss nature of “A Son Unique” makes it a fitting elegy...
...Stranger Than Fiction has a surer aim at getting through the brain to the heart. Zack Helm's script imagines a decent, solitary fellow named Harold Crick (Will Ferrell), then springs the notion that he may well be a fiction--a character in a work in progress by reclusive novelist Karen (Kay) Eiffel (Emma Thompson). And when Kay figures out how to kill off the character, Harold will...
...gets even stranger. Given Will’s connections to President Reagan’s re-election campaign, staffers there made inquiries to Springsteen’s management about a possible endorsement. They politely declined the invitation, but the story doesn’t stop there; at a campaign stop in Hammonton, N.J., Reagan spoke about “America’s future,” a future that “rests in the message of hop in songs so many young Americans admire: New Jersey’s own Bruce Springsteen.” The Gipper shouting...