If you don’t know him already, Olivier Assayas is a name to remember when you’re in the market for an interesting, unpredictable French film. Like
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FILM By Steve Murray
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BOOKS By Steve Murray
In a nice bit of synchronicity, the latest issue of the literary magazine Sugar Mule, which features almost four dozen South Asian writers, has come
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FILM By Steve Murray
The vampires in “Kiss of the Damned” don’t sparkle and play baseball in daylight. When the sun hits them, they have the old-school decency to
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As he showed in “Under the Sand” and “Swimming Pool,” French writer-director François Ozon is fascinated with the elusiveness of “reality” and the seductions of
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FILM By Steve Murray
If classical visual beauty alone defined what makes a movie great, “Renoir” might be, well, a masterpiece. But so many other elements need to harmonize
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FILM By Steve Murray
Somewhere along the spectrum between the teenage bonding of “The Breakfast Club” and the teenage bacchanal of “Kids” lies “The We and the I.” It’s
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FILM By Steve Murray
“Blancanieves,” a Spanish retelling of “Snow White” through the lens of early-20th-century bullfighting culture, ends with a haunting, ambivalent image. It’s a shame that this
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FILM By Steve Murray
Strange, how quickly a signature style can teeter on self-parody. Take “To the Wonder,” writer-director Terrence Malick’s latest since “The Tree of Life,” a movie
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FILM By Steve Murray
It’s a classic plot: our heroes go on a Quest to attain a great Prize but must overcome many Obstacles to do so. And, along
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Atlanta’s Film Love series is presenting an evening of French director Jean-Gabriel Périot’s work — and the director himself — in a fascinating 90-minute program
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What a strange movie this is, “The Silence.” Starting with the title’s stark, pseudo-Tarkovsky-Bergman austerity and the relentless, ominous rumble of its soundtrack, the German
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FILM By Steve Murray
The 2005 film “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” questioned whether the death of a young woman (Jennifer Carpenter of “Dexter”) was the result of well-meaning























