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Revenge of the Romantic
I had a theory.  Things tend to be cyclical in our culture of arts and entertainment, and having just seen the romantic comedy genre dominated for a decade by male point-of-view raunch-coms (the Apatow era, from 40 Year-Old Virgin to last year's bromantic I Love You, Man ), I figured ...
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The Hidden Heroine
It's that time of the year again.  Romantic comedy lovers, lovers comedic or serious -- all humans with beating hearts know that as soon as February rolls around, there's a major holiday to be reckoned with, one that's come to symbolize the meaning of love and romance for America, ...
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Auteur, Auteur!
The way he chooses his language and his descriptive phrases is amazingly perceptive and helpful.  And if you don't listen very carefully, you might miss it.  Bob directs using active verbs.  You can play an active verb.  You can't play an inactive one.  I ...
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Love Speaks
In many films, people never discuss ideas, be they moral or political. And when those kinds of discussions are introduced, it often sounds false. What I've tried to do—and this is what I'm happiest with in my films—[is to] show people discussing morality, whatever that might mean, in a ...
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