Articles by Robert Bell

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  Collaborator

  Martin Donovan

  PUBLISHED Mar 7, 2013

  Politics, celebrity and failure: in essence, these are the themes that define and propel veteran actor Martin Donovan's directorial debut,...

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  Trouble in the Peace

  Julian T. Pinder

  PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2013

  Back in 2008, just outside of Dawson Creek, BC, reports of dying animals and sick children were being linked to sour gas leaks — natu...

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  Early Summer

  Yasujirô Ozu

  PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2013

  With a careful, calculated pace and oft-motionless cinematography, more concerned with depth and framing than movement, Yosujiro Ozu's trea...

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  The Devil's Advocate

  Taylor Hackford

  PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2013

  It's odd that throughout the '90s, the introspective indie drama was popular alongside some of the smuttiest, trashiest, camp thrillers eve...

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  Nobody's Fool

  Robert Benton

  PUBLISHED Mar 3, 2013

  Writer/director Robert Benton has demonstrated a career preoccupation with the nature of trust and the dangers of externalizing and perform...

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  Chasing Mavericks [Blu-Ray]

  Curtis Hanson & Michael Apted

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2013

  With Curtis Hanson having directed films like Wonder Boys and L.A. Confidential, and Michael Apted helming instalments of the Narnia and Bo...

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  The Bay

  Barry Levinson

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2013

  On the commentary track and sole "making of" supplement included with DVD of The Bay, director Barry Levinson discusses departing from his...

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  Citadel

  Ciaran Foy

  PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2013

  What Ciaran Foy's claustrophobic psychological thriller, Citadel, excels in is understanding the nature of victimhood and social anxiety. W...