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Entries Tagged as 'Ed Harris'

The Abyss (1989, James Cameron), the special edition

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Running almost three hours, the special edition of The Abyss manages to be too long in an interesting way. It forgets its story. There’s about an hour there with the valiant undersea oil workers battling the psychotic military man–there’s fight scenes and chase scenes and drama scenes and all sorts of scenes… just nothing about […]

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Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Ed Harris· James Cameron· Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio· ★★

Gone Baby Gone (2007, Ben Affleck)

February 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

There’s one singularly profound moment in Gone Baby Gone, when Affleck plus vieux has one of those filmic moments directors rarely have. He takes a broken, melodramatic scene and makes it sublime. It’s a wonderful moment, coming just after the film’s second ending and before the third and fourth. The film has a lengthy list […]

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Tagged: Aaron Stockard· Ben Affleck· Dennis Lehane· Ed Harris· Miramax Films· Morgan Freeman· ★★★

A History of Violence (2005, David Cronenberg)

January 14th, 2008 · No Comments

There’s something about A History of Violence from the first scene, something about the way the titles become part of the motel exterior. It’s a nice long tracking shot from Cronenberg, with a great (small part though) performance from Stephen McHattie. After the opening, Cronenberg spends a lot of time introducing Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello […]

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Tagged: David Cronenberg· Ed Harris· John Wagner· Josh Olson· Maria Bello· Vince Locke· William Hurt· ★★★★

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