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November 19, 2008 in Behind the Scenes

Los Angeles Times: Sally Hawkins, star of Happy Go Lucky

By Lisa Rosen
Los Angeles Times
Excerpt, The Envelope
November 19, 2008

Mike Leigh's latest film, " Happy-Go-Lucky," centers on the unsinkable Poppy Cross, a teacher who tries to make everyone around her happier. It is an effort rebuffed by some, welcomed by others and...


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November 08, 2008 in Reviews

Movie City News: Wilmington on Movies: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

By Michael Wilmington
Movie City News
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November 8, 2008

A movie adapted from a children's book set in the Holocaust sounds like a risky proposition - though teenager Anne Frank's Diary remains our best-loved chronicle of that tragic, bloody period. But Mark...


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November 07, 2008 in Reviews

Los Angeles Times: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Review

By Sheri Linden
Los Angeles Times
Excerpt
November 7, 2008

Writer-director Mark Herman took on tough material when he chose to adapt "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas." The 2006 young adult novel by John Boyne cleaves to a young boy's point of view -- and the boy's...


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November 06, 2008 in Reviews

USA Today: Poignancy, shock in Holocaust drama Boy in the Striped Pajamas

By Claudia Puig
USA Today
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November 6, 2008

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas adds another poignant tale to the canon of Holocaust movies.

Though not as epic as Schindler's List, this story about the wartime experiences of two children is more haunting and...


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November 05, 2008 in Reviews

rogerebert.com: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

By Rober Ebert
rogerebert.com
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November 5, 2008

Mark Herman's "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" depends for its powerful impact on why, and when, it transfers the film's point of view. For almost all of the way, we see events through the eyes of a bright, plucky...


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November 04, 2008 in Reviews

The New York Observer: The Holocaust Through the Lens of a Child

By Rex Reed
The New York Observer
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November 4, 2008

At the movies, as in life, there is nothing more harrowing to think about or painful to observe than children in peril. At a time when a lot of people will not go near a film about the Holocaust, it's quite brave...


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November 03, 2008 in Behind the Scenes

Filmcatcher.com: Interview with Vera Farmiga

Filmcatcher.com
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November 3, 2008

Vera Farmiga plays a dutiful German wife and mother oblivious to Nazi horrors in THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS. Here, the award-winning actress of Down to the Bone discusses her research on Hitler's women, the allure of period...


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November 02, 2008 in Breaking News

TIME.com: Sunday Before the Day

By Joe Klein
TIME.com
Excerpt, Swampland
November 2, 2008

The polls are holding, not tightening, it seems. McCain appeared on Saturday Night Live in a skit that appeared to be a concession to the inevitable. And the mood of many of my esteemed colleagues appears to be...


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