New reviews and notable screeenings in this week’s issue
Tag: Cameron Crowe
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Cameron Crowe strikes another blow against cynicism
In the director’s new rom-com Aloha, a Jerry Maguire type learns to trust people and be a nice guy.
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Reader’s Agenda Wed 4/23: The Knife, Petty Fest, and Almost Famous
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, April 23
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Rock N’ Roll Fantasies
Cameron Crowe’s first feature as writer-director, Say Any-thing… (1989), lost money, which broke my heart. His third feature, Jerry Maguire (1996), cleaned up, which broke my spirit. (In between was another romantic comedy, the 1992 Singles, which I barely remember.) You might conclude that I was out of step with the audiences that passed on […]