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The Place Beyond the Pines Makes a Heavy-Handed Grab at being a Masterpiece. It Isn't.

By Scott Foundas
Apr 4, 2013

The Place Beyond the Pines opens with a close-up of Ryan Gosling's chiseled abdomen and heavy breathing on the soundtrack. Then in a single, five-minute tracking shot, we follow Gosling's character, Luke, across a fairground and into the tent where Luke and two other stunt motorcycle performers ride their bikes...
The Spring Breakification of the Disney Princess Complex

Spring Breakers is Harmony Korine's most accessible -- and yet his most experimental -- movie yet.

By Scott Foundas
Mar 21, 2013

"All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun," goes Jean-Luc Godard's quip. Add to that a few more girls and their bikinis and you have the rough formula for Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers, which looks like the most expensive Girls Gone Wild video ever made...
Bronx Bombers

Adam Leon’s stellar first film—and TV show—toasts the tag artist

By Scott Foundas
Mar 14, 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,...
Michael Cimino Revisits His Notorious Flop Heaven’s Gate, Which Maybe Was a Masterpiece All Along

By Scott Foundas
Mar 14, 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...
James Franco's Oz is Neither Great Nor Powerful

By Scott Foundas
Mar 7, 2013

It's a bad omen when, early on in Oz the Great and Powerful, we learn that the full given name of its wizard is Oscar. That, of course, is also the name of the awards ceremony that star James Franco once presided over as calamitously as he does this sagging...

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