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The gloves come off on Heath Ledger.
Wed, Oct 14 2009 6:15 PM

It had to happen eventually. The reverential haze surrounding the late Heath Ledger was bound to dispel. And it's David Thomson, critic, film historian and actor-crazed obsessive who once wrote a whole book about Nicole Kidman in which he gasped over her "gingery pubic hair," who's stepped up to bat first. Thomson takes actors and their iconography... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Odds, Heath Ledger, Mickey Rourke, Brad Pitt, Brokeback Mountain, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Robert Downey Jr., David Thomson

Cannes 2009: "Inglourious Basterds."
Wed, May 20 2009 5:08 AM

Quentin Tarantino's a great writer of dialogue, and no one's more convinced of the fact than Quentin Tarantino. The ratio of talk to action -- not gun fights or explosions, but just people doing stuff -- in "Inglourious Basterds" is, generously, nine to one. Again and again, characters sit down over drinks (whiskey, champagne, milk), and the... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Festivals, Quentin Tarantino, Cannes 2009, Mike Myers, Diane Kruger, Inglourious Basterds, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz