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Plot: A Brooklyn smoke shop is the center of neighborhood activity, and the stories of its customers.
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MCT:August 26, 2008
Senza dubbio un film riuscito. Alcuni momenti di gran cinema come il monologo finale di Keitel, davvero super.
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MCT:July 30, 2008Great script, amazing performances. Beautiful and poignant moments. Cliche's arent bad cus they are un-true, they are bad because they are overbeaten paths to the truth. Love IS blind, but everyone's heard that so much it's lost it's meaning.
Lik...(read more) e Harvey Kietal's character who takes photographs of the same block every mourning, as part of his lifes work, this film is familair, but each moment is different and full of it's own little details.
It's a very dialogue driven film, lots of stories, anecdotes, and minituia throughout, everyone sounds natural and all of the actors are at the top of their game.
It's easy to overlook, the little details, here which make this film much more than typical New York dramedy, but they are there, author and screen-writer Paul Auster, has an eye for detail, and for taking the stuff of melodrama and rendering it familiar yet different. If you don't catch it the first time, "slow down", and try again. -
MCT:July 17, 2008this has to be one of my favourite movies, from start to finish there is not a second wasted and with actors like harvey kitle william hurt and forest witaker involved you know your watching something special
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MCT:July 15, 2008
A few very good stories with interesting characters, and Forest Whitaker and Harvey Heitel are 2 of the best.
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MCT:June 18, 2008
ya no hacen peliculas asi, me facino el sentimiento que me dejo despues de verla ...
harvey keitel y william hurt, lo maximo juntos, se dicen todo con los ojos ... -
MCT:April 24, 2008
Since I like Paul Aster as a writer, I wanted to "read" it as a movie director. I must admit that I prefer this one to the following Blue in the face. It's very DeLilloesque :)
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MCT:April 8, 2008
Awesome ensemble film with amazing performances and an intriguing story. Keitel's speech at the end is fantastic.
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MCT:March 6, 2008
enjoyed it very much, would like to watch it again. but wasn't there a pendant film to this, in B&W named "brooklyn boogie"???
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MCT:December 27, 2007
a little masterpiece ...top the scene when Harvey , takes the same photo ,from the same place , the same road in the same hour every day
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MCT:November 26, 2007
This was an interesting little film that explores different lives linked by a Tobacco shop. Very good....BLUE IN THE FACE is the kind of sort of sequel to this, but is more comedic and improved.
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MCT:November 18, 2007
Lumped in with the Comedies section on cable ON DEMAND. Didn't see much humor in it although it was a good study of characters. More about the tragic side of life in a microcosm.
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MCT:September 19, 2007
I love a good story. This film is made up of series of great stories. At some points, the stories seem a little unrealistic but otherwise this dialogue heavy movie is an excellent weaving of tales of chance and reminiscence. The poster is misleading though, the 2 ladies barely have anything to do with the movie!
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MCT:September 16, 2007
A very beautiful intelligent film with every good element a movie should contain. Harvey Keitel and William Hurt were simply something beautiful to behold. A NYC Cigar shop is owned by the character played by Harvey Keitel and frequented by his writer friend William Hurt. We learn many things (as they do from one another in this film) and above all things "how to measure the weight of smoke".
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MCT:June 20, 2007
Succession of anecdotes sometimes funny, sometimes dramatic. Sensible accent and ocasionaly ironical.
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MCT:May 28, 2007
I can't believe that I haven't seen this movie earlier. It's just brilliant! Don't know what else to say.
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MCT:May 6, 2007
Slow-paced but delicious! It's like reading a novel and a good one! The movie has no beginning or an end. It's like a chapter of life. We are witnessing a few characters' crossing paths but it doesn't try to say too much. Great script by Paul Auster, good direction by Wayne Wang, fantastic cast(each one of them) and a wonderful Tom Waits song at the end. Just rent it, sit back and enjoy...
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MCT:March 15, 2007
This great little movie, another reccomendation from my Sweetheart, captured and held my interest from the opening scene. Great character portrayal by both Harvey Keitel and William Hurt. A great study of the nature of friendship, with some great lines- "The minute ya think ya have everything figured out, is when ya don't know a damn thing..." ;-)
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MCT:February 21, 2007
An wonderful and refeshing film that is beautifully acted by it's cast (especially the great Harvey Keitel who I think gives one of his best performances here) and the script is both insightful and honest that's told in a series of well-written vignettes involving five characters. A perfect film, I loved it!
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cheezGirlposted 210 days ago -
worst. poster. ever.
makes it look like one of those zany romantic comedies that hugh grant would act in. but its not, and its good.posted 354 days ago
