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Wild frontier: the Hamptons for hipster celebrities

It had holes, dodgy wiring and strip lights. Photograph: Albert Večerka It's just under a two-hour drive north-west from midtown Manhattan to small-town Cochecton, Sullivan County, but you would be forgiven for thinking it was...

What I saw on the set of Blindness

JOHANNA SCHNELLER From Saturday's Globe and Mail GUELPH, ONT. — I'd never seen this on a movie set before: The director, Fernando Meirelles, called cut, the crew launched into setting up the next shot – which can take anywhere...

'Blindness' hits close to home for Ruffalo

TORONTO — If instead of "Blindness," you called the new film by Fernando Meirelles "Illness," you might be telling the life story of actor Mark Ruffalo. In "Blindness," based on the 1995 novel by Nobel Prize-winning writer Jose...

Movie capsules

CourierPOstOnline.com • October 10, 2008 Ratings are based on the opinions of Gannett News Service, Associated Press and Courier-Post reviewers. ****: Excellent; ***: Good; **: Fair; *: Poor. Based on the novel of the same name...

Capital performance: The London Film Festival

The London Film Festival, which runs from 15 to 30 October, is framed by celebration and commiseration this year. The 2008 event marks the 75th anniversary of the BFI, which organises the festival, but it's also the year in...

The film adaptation of this novel is so bad, you wish you were 'Blind'

I might not have 20/20 vision, but I know a bad movie when I see one. Blindness was not just a bad film, it was a horrid one. In fact, I would argue that it is one of the worst movies made in a long time. The plot of Blindness...

Theater Review: Like, Whatever

Just over 10 years ago, This Is Our Youth was an off-Broadway hit, and a springboard for the careers of playwright Kenneth Lonergan and actor Mark Ruffalo. Lonergan's three-hander about a pair of disaffected rich boys in...

'Blindness' lacks suitable direction

It seems as though Fernando Meirelles lost his creative sight making the lack-luster film "Blindness.""Blindness",/a> The director, whose most famous works include "City of God" and "The Constant Gardener," guided this...

Giamatti, Gleason, Rabe, Strathairn Set for LATW's The Rivalry

L.A. Theatre Works will launch its season The Play's The Thing series of staged readings, which are recorded for later radio broadcast, with David Strathairn, Paul Giamatti, Lily Rabe, and James Gleason in Norman Corwin's...

Review: 'Blindness'

Set in a city where people are suddenly stricken with sightlessness, allegory never rises to level of believability. By Peter Rainer from the October 3, 2008 edition Based on the great 1995 novel by Nobel Prize winner José...

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