Posts Tagged ‘Crazy Heart’

Up With Rock Bottom

The death of a parent, the unspoken-of death of a child and the soon-to-be-avenged murder of a spouse stand uncontested in the lexicon of film deaths. All three offer clean, efficient endearment to a character but keep that tang of gossip about them. There is nothing to confuse an audience in the misguided struggle of [...]

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Pick Up Your Crazy Heart

In a recent interview with Tin House magazine, the seasoned French novelist Amélie Nothomb shared her view that, “the biggest discovery in life is time.” While at its simplest, Scott Cooper’s Crazy Heart is a story about getting sober, it is also about a man awakening to the discovery of time.
Jeff Bridges is Bad [...]

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