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NICOLE KIDMAN

Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 28, 2018
Yorgos Lanthimos' latest is absurd, abrasive and, on second watch, rather funny
Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has been responsible for some of the most provocative and peculiar films of the past decade. His Oscar-nominated movie "Dogtooth" (2009) depicted a married couple who had kept their grown-up children confined at home for their entire lives. "The Lobster" (2015) — his first film in English, and an unlikely cult hit — was set in a world in which coupledom is legally mandated, and those who can't find a romantic partner are transformed into animals.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 5, 2016
'Genius': The wordsmith who shaped Wolfe
Once upon a time, the word "genius" made us think not the help counter in an Apple Store but of people of incredible intellect who accomplished amazing things and relied on nothing more than their brains and bare hands. This "Genius" transports us back to such a time: 1929, when in New York City, the illustrious editor Maxwell Perkins at Charles Scribner's Sons is revered in the chronicles of American literature as the man who edited the works of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 15, 2014
Grace of Monaco: 'Decked with as much glittering artifice as the budget allows'
One of the best moments in "Grace of Monaco" comes when Alfred Hitchcock (Roger Ashton-Griffiths) visits Princess Grace (Grace Kelly, played by Nicole Kidman) in Monaco, hoping to lure her back to Hollywood via a starring role in his new movie "Marnie." Ashton-Griffiths is intentionally grotesque and the scheming, lecherous side of Hitchcock surfaces like pond scum. Grace is polite but she winds up refusing, mostly because her current role as Princess of Monaco is far more absorbing.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 17, 2014
Tortured POW meets his Japanese tormentor
"He is most interested in having contact with you for he has lived with many unanswered questions all these years, questions to which perhaps only you can help him to find the answers." So wrote Patricia Lomax in a letter sent from her home in England to Takashi Nagase, who at the time lived in Okayama Prefecture.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 31, 2013
'Oldboy' director casts dark shadow on Hollywood
“Stoker,” a film so rich and chocolatey with nuance and innuendo you could eat it with a spoon, is, amazingly, directed by a filmmaker who doesn't speak English.

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