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Scene On Film: 'Emperor'

By Joan Ellis Is there a time or a place more compelling than Japan in 1945? The Japanese had surrendered four years after bombing Pearl Harbor. Hiroshima...

Scene On Film: 'Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013'

By Joan Ellis Have you rushed to your nearest theater to see Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013? Of course not. It’s a given for all of us...

Scene On Film: 'Side Effects'

By Joan Ellis Side Effects plays games with us. Steven Soderbergh knows well that audiences love to figure out the director’s game plan and with...

Scene On Film: 'Zero Dark Thirty'

By Joan Ellis Zero Dark Thirty has become a current event. Who but director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal would have tackled the daunting challenge...

Scene On Film: 'Quartet'

By Joan Ellis How often do you see a nearly perfect movie? Quartet is just that. First credit goes to Dustin Hoffman who exploded into our...

Scene On Film: 'Django Unchained'

By Joan Ellis Pulp Fiction was an exciting innovation; Inglourious Basterds was a masterpiece. But hasn’t Quentin Tarantino crossed the line in Django Unchained (wonderful title) by targeting...

Scene On Film: 'Hyde Park on Hudson'

By Joan Ellis Hyde Park on Hud­son is an unexpected pleasure. Despite the extraordinary tension be­tween England and America in 1939, director Roger Michell focuses...

Scene On Film: 'Amour'

By Joan Ellis   Amour has arrived on a wave of superlatives. Critics, who I suspect may be quite young, have hailed it as a masterful...

Scene On Film: 'Silver Linings Playbook'

By Joan Ellis The comically dys­functional family in Silver Linings Play­book has no villains, and that happy circumstance leaves us free to enjoy the dysfunction. Within...

Scene On Film: 'Lincoln'

By Joan Ellis Rarely has a slice of American history been delivered with such panache. Based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals, Lincoln is driven...
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