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Disclaimer–Truth or Fiction?

Five-time Oscar winner Alfonso Cuaron (of “Roma”, “Y Tu Mama Tambien”, “Pan’s Labyrinth“, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkhaban”, and more) directs Disclaimer  based upon Renée Knight’s novel of the same name.  The middle-aged protagonist, Catherine Ravenscroft (Academy Award-winner Cate Blanchett), receives a career-defining award for her courageous coverage and truth-telling. Flush with the recognition for her efforts as a journalist, a book, The Perfect Stranger, arrives at her office.  Purportedly written by Stephen Brigstocke (Kevin Kline) as his novel, The Perfect Stranger,...

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Phantom Thread: Moving Through Love, Death and Genius

[Bill Clark, Guest Blogger]   In an early scene of writer / director Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy-Award nominated Phantom Thread,  Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) gazes across the dinner table at Alma (Vicky Krieps) who he hopes will be his next easy conquest. After all, he’s the renowned haute couture dressmaker in 1950s London who clothes royalty and celebrities. She’s just a waitress he picked up earlier in the day. She returns his look with her own dark-eyed steady gaze: “If this is a staring match, you’re going to lose.” And so it begins – a contest of wills and loves,...

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