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God Grew Tired of Us: The Story of Lost Boys of Sudan
This multiaward-winner from Sundance 2006 follows three “lost boys” of the Sudan, chronicling three years of their journey in the United States, while revealing as much about American life as African life.
"...clock-radio.) Winner of the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize for documentary at Sundance 2006, the film follows three..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Documentarian Freida Mock presents her subject as a play in three acts, but the academic and fragmented structure obscures the warmth of this playwright.
"...regular guy, gap-toothed and a little goofy, among Pulitzer Prize winners. We see his wedding (where Bill gives a..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Flags of Our Fathers
The first half of the film continues Clint Eastwood's ongoing deconstruction of America's hero myths but then detours into some uncharacteristically sentimental mulch.
"...picture in question is of course Joe Rosenthal’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of six faceless soldiers – five Marines and..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

All the King's Men
Despite an A-list cast and director, it's astonishing how bad this movie is.
"...an adaptation of poet laureate Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Loosely based on the career of Louisiana Governor..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The House of Sand
The House of Sand is a quintessentially moderate art film: panoramic and symbolic, epic in scope, technically accomplished, and miraculously acted by the mother-daughter team of Fernandas Montenegro and Torres in showy dual roles.
"...despite taking home the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize from Sundance...."

Sept. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Academy Award-Nominated Documentary Shorts 2005
A rare opportunity to see what's considered the best in the field of short docs; plus all four nominees have a socio-political bent.
"...say reckless) South African photojournalist, who won the Pulitzer prize for a haunting photograph of an emaciated Sudanese toddler..."

April 7, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Rent
Despite the grating, workmanlike direction of Chris Columbus, this boisterous film is a vivacious, wiseacre musical and an inarguable morality lesson: Love is all you need.
"...today than it was before it garnered a Pulitzer Prize, four Tony Awards, three OBIEs, and enough gilded statuary..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Weather Man
In this heartfelt comic drama, a wonderfully controlled Nicolas Cage plays a man who, despite the appearance of success, is despondent over his superficiality.
"...few scattered showers. Spritz is the son of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Robert Spritzel (Caine), whose attitude toward David always..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Proof
As with many film adaptations of stage successes, David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about mathematics and madness loses something in its translation to celluloid.
"...many film adaptations of stage successes, David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about mathematics and madness, Proof, loses something in..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Broken Flowers
Jim Jarmusch and Bill Murray meditate on middle age and the world of possibilities.
"...emotional journey. Broken Flowers, which won the Grand Jury prize at Cannes, will probably turn out to be the..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Spider-Man 2
Even superheroes have to do their own laundry in Sam Raimi's truly spectacular vision that combines human pathos and breathtaking action.
"...to, among others, author Michael Chabon, whose own Pulitzer Prize-winning comic-book novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,..."

July 2, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Home on the Range
It’s fitting that this is Disney’s last traditionally animated feature; the whole affair has a warm, nostalgic feel.
"...do.) The erstwhile Mrs. Arnold voices Maggie, a hefty prize heifer ("Yeah, they’re real," she notes, of her bag...."

April 2, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

I Hear a Symphony
Composer Kent Kennan has been an essential voice in America's musical counterpoint since 1936 when he won the Prix de Rome Composition Prize. Now, at age 90, he'll hear the Austin Symphony play his composition for the very first time.
"...1936 when he won the Prix de Rome Composition Prize, in part for a symphony he wrote as an..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Arts Feature by Jerry Young

The Hours
"...the exquisite adaptation of Michael Cunningham's seemingly unfilmable Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Most films simply move from scene to scene,..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Possession
This dual love story spanning two centuries, taken from A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel, is handled with typical LaBute pessimism.
"...story spanning two centuries, taken from A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning 1990 novel. Christabel LaMotte (Ehle) and Randolph Ash (Northam)..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Shipping News
"...diffident film-scribe community. Adapted from E. Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1993 novel, it's an archetypal tale of spiritual rebirth..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Movie Review by Russell Smith

PrizeWhores
"...personality Jenn Garrison shot this documentary about three local "prize whores," individuals who organize their lives around the plethora..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mifune
"...Anders W. Berthelsen. This Danish movie, which won top prize at last year's Berlin Film Festival, is also recognized..."

April 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I Stand Alone
"...story picks up at the point at which his prize-winning short film “Carne” (1991) ended. The butcher's backstory, however,..."

Sept. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Slam
"...Not reviewed at press time.This year's Sundance Grand Jury prize winner and winner of the Camera d'Or and Audience..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Happiness
Solondz uncovers suburbia's dirty secrets.
"...to Welcome to the Dollhouse, his 1996 Sundance grand prize winner that used a geeky junior high-schooler's painful adolescence..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beloved
"...former slave in this film version of Toni Morrison's prize-winning novel Beloved, the past is “the tree on her..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Taste of Cherry
"...film was the co-winner of the Palme d'Or top prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival and has been..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Western
"...Basile Sieouka. Poirier's film took home the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes last year, which is as much an..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chronicle of a Disappearance
"...Director/New Films series, Chronicle of a Disappearance received a prize for best first feature film at the 1996 Venice..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Thousand Acres
"...Jennifer Jason Leigh and Colin Firth. Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning, Lear-on-a-John Deere novel has reached the screen with its..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Infinity
"...it's a chapter from the early years of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman's autobiography -- but then Broderick has..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Halfmoon
"...should be noted that this film is also a prize-winner that won the Young Filmmaker's Trophy at the 1995..."

March 29, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Brothers McMullen
"...film to watch ever since receiving the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival this past winter. First-time..."

Aug. 25, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Before the Rain
Manchevski's debut film impresses with its cagey temporal structure, incredible cinematography that exposes the precipitous Macedonian landscape, beautiful performances, and a thematic structure that adds to our understanding of specific and universal issues.
"...recent Oscar nominee and the winner of the top prize at 1994's Venice Film Festival, is moored in the..."

April 14, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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