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Director Stephen Daldry's (The Hours) new film, The Reader, starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes, concerns a love affair between two Germans reunited after WWII ends, when one of them is on trial for war crimes. Armond White at the New York Press trashes it with signature contempt: "Harvey Weinstein and the ghosts of producers Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella are hoping everyone this holiday season will want to see The Reader’s love story about former S.S. guard Hannah Shmitz (Kate Winslet) and the teenage boy she sexually initiates in the late 1950s and the cloud of remorse it casts over his adult life (the adult being played by Ralph Fiennes). It should have been a comedy like Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book, shaking up the calcified presumptions of quasi-Holocaust dramas. But it’s also Oscar season and historically based, award-baiting mawkishness is no laughing matter."
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I love Totoro!
Uh, anyone want to tell me why this post is tagged with several movie titles along with photos from each, three are mentioned in the headline and only one is discussed in the three paragraphs of the post body?
Screw that murdering commie bastard!
Screw...if it was that easy to erase history; screw Bush!
Spiritof76: You could try clicking on the photos, or even going with the "NEXT >>" button if you're feeling adventurous.
And eeeverybody should love Totoro.
[5] I did try that, for several photos. Apparently, for some reason, the script wasn't working when I tried. Maybe it was a database hiccup. Gothamist was notorious for those and still has them once in a while.
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"Look at the huge booger I've just dug out, comrades!"
Imagine children, one day an Oscar season without a Nazi movie. I shudder.