In the final moments of Lars von Trier’s “Nymphomaniac: Volume I,” his self-loathing, sex-addicted heroine, Joe (played by Stacy Martin as a young adult, and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a grown woman), had gone sexually numb, discovering that she was suddenly incapable of orgasm just as she had reconnected with her on-again-off-again lover, Jerôme (Shia LaBeouf). […]
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Film Review: “Nymphomaniac: Volume I”
“Nymphomaniac: Volume I,” the latest film from Danish filmmaker and all-around provocateur Lars von Trier, sets out to document the lengthy and varied sexual history of one particularly insatiable woman. Though the film originally made its festival debut early this year in a five-and-a-half hour director’s cut, the decision was made to release a slightly […]
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Guy flick, chick flick, skin flick
Joseph Gordon-Levitt might possibly regard “Don Jon” as his Orson Welles achievement — after all, he wrote, directed, and stars in the movie, a Hollywood trifecta. The picture may perhaps rank somewhat below “Citizen Kane” in quality, but we all know that standards everywhere have declined. Rather than an American epic, it begins as an […]
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“I’m So Excited”
With a hard-earned reputation for flirting with outrageous and comical interpretations of sex, the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar demonstrates in his new movie, “I’m So Excited,” that the outrageousness and the comedy, without wit and invention, cannot sustain an entire film. A late work in a reasonably prolific and quite successful career, the picture seems […]
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“On the Road”
For reasons no critic quite comprehends, Neal Cassady commanded the attention and indeed the love of most of the major members of the Beat Generation, dominating their literature and their lives. The Beat saint, the holy goof, a car thief, street hustler, speed freak, and prodigious womanizer, he even accomplished the odd transition from one […]
