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2011 Stories by Melissa Anderson

• BAM Honors the Peerless Catherine Deneuve

  published March 2, 2011

  Rather than trip over hyperbole in introducing the actress who, for five decades, has been the most famous Frenchwoman in the world, it’s... More >>

• Fran Lebowitz Remembers Everything in Public Speaking

  published February 23, 2011

  A butch Dorothy Parker with flashes of Wildean rhetorical flourish, Fran Lebowitz, the subject of this tonic portrait that first aired on HBO... More >>

• Poetry: A Perfectly Performed Ode to a Senescent Woman

  published February 9, 2011

  As in his equally exceptional last film, Secret Sunshine (2007), Lee Chang-dong’s Poetry is a perfectly paced and performed... More >>

• Vidal Sassoon: The Movie in Desperate Need of Shaping and Trimming

  published February 9, 2011

  More accurately titled Vidal Sassoon: The Slavering Advertorial, Craig Teper’s obsequious documentary on the stylist who... More >>

• Inexplicable Natalie Portmania Continues in The Other Woman

  published February 2, 2011

  An adaptation of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Ayelet Waldman’s novel of Upper Manhattan entitlement and sanctimony, this... More >>

• A Big Hand for Paprika Steen in Applause

  published January 19, 2011

  Appearing in every frame of Applause, Thea Barfoed (Paprika Steen), an aging actress and recovering alcoholic trying to get her life... More >>

• In Every Day, Acting Triumphs Over Indie Cliche

  published January 12, 2011

  Ned (Liev Schreiber), the beleaguered patriarch in writer-director Richard Levine’s middling first feature, slogs through slowly simmering... More >>

• Phil Ochs, Folkie, Back Home in the Village

  published January 5, 2011

  Protest singer-songwriter Phil Ochs, with just a guitar and a vibrato tenor, found the sources for his lyrics in daily and weekly periodicals,... More >>