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A wintry, clenched tale of domestic strife : The Killing of Two Lovers
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Dir: Robert Machoian. Starring: Clayne Crawford, Sepideh Moafi, Chris Coy, Avery Pizzuto, Arri Graham, Jonah Graham, Ezra Graham, Bruce Graham. 15 cert, 84 min
As a title, The Killing of Two Lovers does some smart work on a punchy film’s behalf. It instils a percolating sense of dread, compounded by the opening: a cuckolded husband pointing a gun, in turn, at his wife and her new paramour, while they lie asleep in the bed that used to be his.
This taut, brooding drama set in a tiny Utah town – less a thriller than an anti-thriller – curtails many of its shots abruptly, and leaves us questioning what happened in the in-between. So when David (a simmering Clayne Crawford) is next seen climbing out of a ground-floor window and sprinting away in the half-light, we wonder whether he’s done the deed. The soundtrack is sparsely punctuated with percussive whooshes, suggesting gunshots that c
Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley in Philippe Falardeau s My New York Year
Dir: Philippe Falardeau. Starring: Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver, Douglas Booth, Colm Feore, Brian F O’Byrne. 15 cert, 101 mins
In 1995, Joanna Rakoff took a job as a 23-year-old intern at Harold Ober Associates, one of New York City’s oldest literary agencies. Taxed with handling JD Salinger’s large volume of fan mail, she had regular dealings with the notoriously reclusive novelist over the phone, and would write a 2014 memoir about her experiences. That book was called My Salinger Year; since premiering in Berlin last February, the poised film adaptation by Canadian director Philippe Falardeau has undergone a title change to the more generic, less bookish My New York Year.
If you’re like me, you love a good 80’s flick.
But if you’re like
Fisher Stevens, you cringe at at
least one.
Hackers and TV’s
Many of you no doubt recall
Short Circuit, the 1986 gem about a woman and her robot pal.
The movie had all the necessary elements for box office gold: sci-fi tech, Ally Sheedy,
Police Academy’s Steve Guttenberg, and a fantastic song courtesy of El DeBarge.
Relive the magic:
The Chicago native’s character, Ben Jabituya, was
Indian.
Speaking to Yahoo Entertainment, the self-described “white Jewish kid” expressed agony:
“It definitely haunts me.”