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2004 Stories by Melissa Levine

• Bomb-alie

  published December 23, 2004

  A Very Long Engagement, the new film by French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (most famously of Amélie), will have its fans. For... More >>

• Enduring Creepiness

  published December 9, 2004

  There is something very important to know about Enduring Love that is not apparent from the title: It's a thriller. More specifically, it's... More >>

• Enduring Creepiness

  published December 2, 2004

  There is something very important to know about Enduring Love that is not apparent from the title: It's a thriller. More specifically, it's... More >>

• Misdirected

  published November 18, 2004

  Editor's note: The Florida International Film Festival finally comes to an end Sunday at Cinema Paradiso, with a screening of Pedro... More >>

• Empty Sex

  published September 23, 2004

  The very best thing about A Dirty Shame, a giddy sex farce from John Waters, is the credits. What's not to love about a list of characters... More >>

• Reese's Piece

  published September 2, 2004

  In Victorian England, 40,000 novels were published every year. Of the few that have endured, perhaps none is more worthy of a film adaptation than... More >>

• Party Train

  published August 26, 2004

  Oh, Janis. Oh, gorgeous, outrageous, soul-ripping, rockin', bluesy momma Janis Joplin. She's a volcano. She's a tsunami. She's a fearless,... More >>

• Sa-weet!

  published July 15, 2004

  It's charming. It's hilarious. It is perhaps the most beautifully crafted, lovingly rendered portrait of extreme geekitude ever to grace the... More >>

• Mother Courage

  published July 8, 2004

  The first exceptional drama of 2004 is here, and it only took, what, seven months? Perhaps unsurprisingly, The Mother comes from British... More >>

• Radio Free Haiti

  published April 29, 2004

  Every once in a while, you encounter a person who seems to have been born under an urgent, righteous star -- a person who is both a fiery activist... More >>

• Lenin Grads

  published April 1, 2004

  If you were a college-aged East Berliner in October of 1989, chances are that your time was occupied by one of several things. Protesting comes to... More >>

• Put Your Little Hand in Mine

  published March 11, 2004

  Remember Omar Sharif? He's been all but absent from the silver screen in recent years (though he has been seen -- or at least heard -- on... More >>

• Rationality Will Not Save Us

  published February 12, 2004

  At the opening of The Fog of War, the brilliant new documentary from director Errol Morris, we see a composed, sharply groomed, middle-aged... More >>