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Sideways - 2 guys, one looking for love, the other hunting for sex

Posted on October 13th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer

Sideways - Director Alexander Payne
Colours to the mast. I hated About Schmidt (Review in Archive). Sideways is much better, but its spirit and emotional tone make it very much a companion piece. Both pose the question: is pathos enough to drive a movie? I’d always thought of pathos as a bit like happiness: something that [...]

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About Schmidt - imagined dialogue Nicholson, Producer

Posted on August 8th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer

About Schmidt – Alexander Payne
The late Pauline Kael - one of the consistently best writers on movies for over 30 years and the feistiest, had a pet hate: meretricious movies cynically calculated in conception and performance to manipulate easy emotion and worse, to plug into the worthy sentimentality characteristic of the Oscar Academy members.
Ms Kael [...]

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