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The Timing of "Pelham 1 2 3," continued
By Melissa Anderson
on 06/10/2009
Carmen Maura in "Tetro," American Zoetrope, 2009
Six months before Sargent’s “Pelham” was originally released in October 1974, Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation” opened -- Coppola's last original screenplay until "Tetro." This black-and-white, Buenos Aires-set family drama, starring Vincent Gallo and adorable newcomer Alden Ehrenreich as feuding brothers, unfolds as several chapters in a feverish psychobiography: primal scenes, restaged (and upstaged) memories, Oedipal clashes. Coppola is interested in making only personal projects now, and if that means more films with characters named Alone (the great Carmen Maura as the most formidable theater critic since Addison DeWitt), then that’s an offer I can’t refuse.
Melissa Anderson is our guest critic for the month of June.
“The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3” opens wide on June 12th; “Food, Inc.” opens in limited release on June 12th; and “Tetro” opens in limited release on June 11th.
[Additional photo: "Food, Inc.," Magnolia Films, 2008]
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