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Artvoice Weekly Edition » Issue v5n3 (01/19/2006) » Section: Film Reviews


Can't We All Just Laugh Along: Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

Before there was Larry David there was Albert Brooks, who has long been willing to take the part of a jerk in the interest of pursuing his comic and satirical goals. His persona is that of a guy you laugh at, not with, a concept that few performers want to embrace in a day when non-stop tabloid journalism has the effect of erasing the line between public performance and private character.



New Growth in Old Wood[y]: Match Point

Most of you who go to see Match Point will do so in the knowledge that it is a new film by Woody Allen. Some will go because of that, maybe a few in spite of it. A lot of people will also avoid it for that reason, including people who use to count themselves among his fans. I sympathize: certainly nothing he has made since 1999’s Sweet and Lowdown has given us much hope to expect anything other than increasingly tired reworkings of his older films from the new ones that he continues to grind out on a yearly basis.





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