Valentine's Day may have already come and gone, but between the re-release of Titanic and the opening of Terence Davies' The Deep Blue Sea, it looks like cinema's most romantic days are still ahead of us. Rachel Weisz stars as Hester Collyer, whose marriage to an older judge (Simon Russell Beale) falls apart when she strikes up…
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2011's been pretty hit or miss with regard to dramatic romances. The year got off to a pretty strong start with Jane Eyre in the first quarter, but the more recent Water for Elephants and One Day both fell flat. I'm waiting to be swept off my feet by something beautiful and tragic, and I've…
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If you're more interested in the typical fall slate of festival entrees than summer's glut of tentpole action fare, this is a great week. The Toronto International Film Festival announced the first wave of films that will play the fest in September. This is a batch of about 50 titles, which makes up only a…
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OK, first: this isn't a story about a remake of or sequel to the giant shark "oops, I ate Sam Jackson" movie Deep Blue Sea. It is about a film version of the 1952 play by Terence Rattigan (first filmed in 1955 with Vivien Leigh starring) about a woman who leaves her husband for a…
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