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Beyond the Hills: A Powerful and Necessary Act of Reclamation

By Scott Foundas
Apr 18, 2013

Beyond the Hills: A Powerful and Necessary Act of Reclamation
The Place Beyond the Pines, Starring Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper, Is the Year’s First Stab at a Masterpiece

By Scott Foundas
Apr 11, 2013

The Place Beyond the Pines opens with a close-up of Ryan Gosling's chiseled abdomen — surely one of the more salable quantities in movies today — and heavy breathing on the soundtrack (or was that just the person next to me in the screening room?). Then, in a single, five-minute...
Bronx Bombers: Adam Leon's Stellar First Film — and TV Show — Toasts the Tag Artist

By Scott Foundas
Mar 21, 2013

For a movie as much in love with New York's outer-borough street life as Adam Leon's Gimme the Loot, it will not do just to talk about the film. That's what Leon insists, and so I find myself heading north with Leon on FDR Drive on an overcast Friday afternoon,...
Molly's Theory: A Head-Scratcher

By Scott Foundas
Mar 21, 2013

Best known as a 40-year veteran of the indie distribution scene, Jeff Lipsky has latterly carved out a sideline as one of New York's most idiosyncratic indie filmmakers — a purveyor of confessional, sexually frank relationship dramas clearly indebted to his acknowledged masters: Mike Leigh and John Cassavetes. The best...
Michael Cimino Revisits His Notorious Flop Heaven's Gate, Which Maybe Was a Masterpiece All Along

By Scott Foundas
Mar 21, 2013

"This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." So goes the adage from John Ford's 1962 classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and so it has gone for Heaven's Gate, the class-war Western written and directed by one of Ford's truest disciples among contemporary...

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