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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Emmets story is told in the form of a mock-biography, with the commentary of Allen and a few other jazz authorities interspliced between sequences of Emmets flickering Depression-era career. Allen takes a genial swipe at all of those documentaries in which scholars pose as talking heads, theorizing about...
But the real jewel of the film is Samantha Morton as Hattie, a mute laundress who tries to tries to take up Emmet as a lover. Looking like she just stepped out of a silent film, Morton gives a performance that, without a single line of actual dialogue, matches Penns...
Despite its short running time the movie does occasionally become tiresome in its second half, when Morton drops out of the picture to make way for a fancier enchantress. Unfortunately, Uma Thurman disappoints as Blanche, an Anais Nin wannabe with a fetish for performing geniuses: the amusing concept of her...
Layton's friends, accustomed to seeing him in running shorts, would hardly recognize him in his grown-up attire. Each morning, he dons a tie and dress coat, walks briskly to the high school and, voila!, quickly transforms from Luke to Mr. Arribas with super-man celerity. It's not...
But if you happen to run into Layton at Lamont, he is most likely not looking up a reserve reading. Rather, he is probably brushing up on Robert Frost or Walt Whitman in preparation for tomorrow's class. Or, he is grading the homework assignments and quizzes that he designs...