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2007 Stories by Charles Petersen

• Laura Smiles

  published July 17, 2007

  Set in downtown New York and the suburbs of L.A., it would be difficult to come up with a more clichéd indie film than writer-director... More >>

• Goya's Ghosts

  published July 10, 2007

  Milos Forman has built his career by pushing the limits of the Hollywood biopic. Amadeus showed Mozart through the eyes of Salieri; The... More >>

• To Serb With Love

  published June 26, 2007

  When Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize in 2004, she accepted reluctantly, deferring to her countryman Peter Handke as a "living... More >>

• Noriko's Dinner Table

  published June 5, 2007

  The sequel to Suicide Club, Sion Sono's J-horror hit, this film follows young Noriko from her pastoral home to the ravages of modern Tokyo.... More >>

• Blood and Tears

  published June 5, 2007

  A well-balanced primer on the Arab-Israeli conflict, Blood and Tears takes just over an hour to go from the roots of Zionism to the recent... More >>

• 'Miriam'

  published May 29, 2007

  So bad it doesn't ever approach being good, doesn't even go from bad to good and back to bad again—just bad bad bad, all the way through.... More >>

• 'I'm Reed Fish'

  published May 22, 2007

  Short of pulling a Zach Braff, there's one sure way to get known as a screenwriter: Put your actual name in the title of the script. Add a bunch... More >>

• 'Memories of Tomorrow'

  published May 8, 2007

  It's not often you see two Alzheimer's flicks in the same week. Lucky for us, Away From Her stars none other than Julie Christie: If anyone... More >>

• 'Looking for an Icon'

  published May 1, 2007

  Made to honor the 50th anniversary of the "World Press Photo of the Year," this documentary fails as both birthday present and theoretical... More >>

• 'Missing Victor Pellerin'

  published April 24, 2007

  An uncanny, uncategorizable film, neither doc- nor mockumentary, Sophie Deraspe's debut feature shares more in common with Nabokov and Borges than... More >>

• 'The Collector'

  published April 17, 2007

  For a film about obsession, Olympia Stone's biopic is remarkably laid back. Allan Stone, the director's late father, made a name for himself in... More >>

• 'Goodbye, Momo'

  published April 10, 2007

  A PSA trying to pass for Fellini—the credits thank the late master by name and the score references 8 1/2—Leonardo Ricagni's new... More >>