Keep the River On Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale

"...camera. Indeed, Schneebaum rediscovers one of his old Indonesian lovers, and finds tribal homosexuality wherever he goes. Once again,..."

April 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Modern Tales as Old as Time

New AFS series travels back to the seat of civilization

"...Bare-bones media portrayals of the modern ramifications of an ancient struggle between Palestinians and Israelis..."

Feb. 15, 2013 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

Drink Away That Valentine's Day: Wine for Lovers

"...their womb. And as a possible precursor to the modern-day valentine, mature girls placed their names (and maybe a..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Food Feature

The Notebook

The love sap flows freely in this movie romance told in retrospect.

"...(Gosling) and a girl named Allie (McAdams). They’re mismatched lovers – the very best kind – she from a..."

June 25, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Man Who Was Too Loud

Josh Frank's The Man Who Was Too Loud pays tribute to Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers with some fantastic covers of the band's music, but the portrayal of Richman as a dramatic character is so far off target that the show smacks of a vain attempt at cool.

"...experience with and feelings for Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, suburban savants responsible for turning a generation of..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Arts Review by Kate X Messer

Me, Myself & Irene

"...wolf in clown's clothing, and rigorously Dadaistic in ways modern audiences aren't likely to note. And I'd guess that's..."

June 23, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Pablo Picasso Was Never Called an A......

On money, politics, voting, and Daniel Johnston

"...– "Pablo Picasso," Modern Lovers..."

May 6, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Shakespeare in Love

It's flighty, improbable stuff, meant not to be a historical restorative but a modern romantic tribute to the scribe whose words have launched a million sonnets.

"...is equally nourished with truisms of historic lore and modern sensibility. In much the same way that Baz Luhrmann..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Zhou Yu's Train

Chinese romance stars beautiful Gong Li as a modern woman with two male lovers.

"...Yu's Train is one of the most romantic and modern movies to come out of present-day China. It tells..."

Oct. 1, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Strangers

First-time writer/director Bertino, a UT alum, scares up a solid horror-film success with this debut outing.

"...in which masked human ghoulies torment the baffled young lovers who reside within. There’s little that distinguishes this movie’s..."

May 30, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dead Again

"...Frank's imaginative screenplay is a karmic one: Are two lovers, one of whom supposedly murdered the other, destined to..."

Aug. 30, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Chunhyang

"...with illicit affairs of the heart, both pairs of lovers come from opposite ends of the social spectrum, and..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sister Aimee

A slightly true story of America's first megapastor on the run

"...fame of Billy Sunday as well as becoming a modern media pioneer with the radio broadcasts of her sermons...."

Sept. 27, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tommy's Honour

Lacking biopic on the game of golf

"...Strictly for lovers of the sport of golf who also happen to..."

April 14, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Before Midnight

This third European outing with Celine and Jesse is a grand accomplishment.

"...two films, made nine years apart, are touchstones of modern romantic cinema, and their intercontinental lovers, Celine (Delpy) and..."

May 24, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jane Eyre

The foggy moors are palpable, the passions less so, but this new adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's oft-told story is a handsome addition to the canon.

"...a classic Byronic hero, serve as bellwethers that beckon modern storytellers again and again. This new screenplay adaptation by..."

March 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Heights

This intersecting story that follows a half-dozen New Yorkers over the course of one long day and night is intellectually engaging and genuinely surprising, although not terribly risky.

"...she bellows to her students about the passionlessness of modern living; her curtain call is to urge them, "For..."

July 15, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

In My Skin

Disturbing French drama about a woman who cuts her own skin as a prelude to gnawing on her flesh.

"...wanted to attend in the first place, that this modern-day corporate cipher "finds" herself. Esther, in short work, becomes..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Intolerable Cruelty

The Coen brothers tackle a comedy of manners and come out winners.

"...what it is: a delightful, thoroughly satisfying comedy of modern manners. Clooney plays ace divorce attorney Miles Massey –..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Intimacy

"...the Train, Intimacy grapples, sweatily, with the notion of modern love lodged in a void, in this case London...."

Jan. 11, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

This martial arts film succeeds as a great pulp yarn, a historical drama, an epic love story, a humorous action tale, and a modern feminist fable.

"...epic love story, a humorous action tale, and a modern feminist fable. Chow and Yeoh star as the unrequited..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

You've Got Mail

The joke of Nora and Delia Ephron's screenplay is that the one, true love of your life may walk right past you on the sidewalk, and you'll never know it.

"...Mail is a valentine to the happenstance miracle of lovers and other strangers, a movie that regards modern romance..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Mouth to Mouth

"...Spanish filmmaker Pereira's throwaway romantic farce is set in modern-day Madrid where, as the film opens, struggling young actor..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Broken English

"...the reality we know is Broken English's setting of modern New Zealand, where waves of immigration have created tense,..."

May 23, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Chinese Feast

"...and Xin Xin-Xiong. Hong Kong director Tsui Hark's first modern-day film since 1992's The Master is also his loosest,..."

July 28, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

London

"...Scofield, Keiller's film is an atypical documentary look at modern London through the eyes of a pair of apparently..."

Oct. 21, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Impromptu

"...bitchy if you will. Filmmakers are probably afraid that modern audiences will head for the door if a little..."

May 24, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Queen & Slim

Tragic romance with a Black Lives Matter message

"...Queen & Slim artfully weaves together a lovers-on-the-lam crime story with very trenchant Black Lives Matter thematic..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Loveless

Russia's middle class eviscerates itself.

"...that, while overlong, resonates with the sheer randomness of modern life. Director Zvyagintsev (Leviathan) exposes the viral, negative effects..."

March 30, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Butler Opera Center's Così fan tutte

This production brings Mozart's test of female fidelity into the modern world of Tinder and high finance

"...he sings, it doesn't exist. He goads the young lovers into a bet that their betrotheds will prove Don..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

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