By Michael Schaub http://www.latimes.com/
July 26,2016 11:20AM
"You shall know the truth," Aldous Huxley once said, "and the truth shall make you mad."
You'd be hard-pressed to find a quote more emblematic of the late English author, who was born 122 years ago today.
August 9th, 2016
BY THOUGHTSONFILMS
Coming to the end of 2014, Fikri Jermadi decided to close a book first opened six years ago.
This is something of an unfinished bit of business for me. ‘Maradona by Kusturica’ was a film I first previewed six years ago, when it was screening for the first time at the 2008 Cannes International Film Festival.
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September 10, 2016
By Roger Ebert
"If you were any thinner," Stevie tells him, "you wouldn't exist." Trevor Reznik weighs 121 pounds and you wince when you look at him. He is a lonely man, disliked at work, up all night, returning needfully to two women who are kind to him: Stevie, a hooker, and Marie, the waitress at the all-night diner out at the airport. "I haven't slept in a year," he tells Marie.
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