In this week’s issue, Cliff Doerksen reviews Max Mayer’s romantic comedy Adam, with Hugh Dancy as a young man who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome and Rose Byrne as the young woman who finds him attractive. “Like many films of its genre,” Cliff writes, “it’s less interesting as a movie than as a map of gender […]
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Spend this lovely day in a darkened room
This week: the Latino and Palestine film festivals, the latest from the writer-directors of “Half Nelson,” a pair of political prison dramas, and lawyers gathering at 9 AM to talk “12 Angry Men.”
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“The Return of Charley Chase” and “Highlighting Max Davidson”
Charley Chase and Max Davidson, who starred in silent comedies produced by Hal Roach, lack the formal precision of Buster Keaton or the humanism of Charlie Chaplin, but they’ll remind you of what’s exciting about American silent comedy. Though the films’ loose plots are often little more than a framework on which to hang sight […]