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Anhoni Patel Administrator Besides being Managing Editor of SF Station, Anhoni Patel writes fiction and reviews. She is the author of "All Good Things Die in L.A." and is currently at work on her second novel. Her many passions include movies, food and books. But not necessarily in that order. |
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 | A Failed Romance There is something about author Gabriel García Márquez's writing which inspires rabid ardor. And many consider his acclaimed novel [b]Love in the Time of Cholera[/b] to be his greatest work. Thus, there will be a trail of many broken hearts in the wake of the book's film adaptation.More |  | On Friendship Susanne Bier ([b]After the Wedding[/b], [b]Brothers[/b]), who is emerging as a powerful director of international acclaim, explores several things in her outstanding new film [b]Things We Lost in the Fire[/b]: grief, addiction, love and, most of all, friendship. Creating star turns for Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro, this is a movie you will remember long after the credits roll.More |  | Only the Lonely Living in the garage next to his brother Gus' (Paul Schneider) house, Lars (Ryan Gosling) is a socially awkward 27-year old who much rather sit by himself in his puffy coat wringing an old baby blanket his deceased mother (who passed away while giving him birth) had knitted for him than interact with real, live human beings. Essentially a sweet drama about a young man trying to work through his loneliness, [b]Lars and the Real Girl[/b] is easily one of the best, and most original, movies of the year.More |  | An Elaborate Fashion Show Directed by Shekhar Kapur ([b]Elizabeth[/b], [b]The Four Feathers[/b], [b]Bandit Queen[/b]), the latest offering on the life of England's Queen Elizabeth I, [b]Elizabeth: The Golden Age[/b] is little more than a linear character study set amidst an elaborate fashion show. With a stellar award-winning cast and a proven, skilled director the film is two hours of wasted potential.More |  | The Train to Nowhere When this train pulls into the station, you may not want to board. One of the more anticipated films of the year, [b]The Darjeeling Limited[/b] is just that -- limited. The movie is a disappointing road trip flick in which three spoiled, clueless, sorry saps travel by train through India while trying to absorb its "spiritual essence" via osmosis.More |  | Slow and Tortuous Something has obviously gone wrong in a movie when the viewers begin to lose sympathy for the main character. And something has gone horribly awry if the viewers begin to root for the character to fail or die or meet his/her comeuppance, especially when that character, as is the case in the Indian film [b]Vanaja[/b], a 15-year old girl who's been raped. It sounds unbearably harsh, but the title character, Vanaja, is so exasperating, bratty, spoiled and unlikable that you will find yourself completely unsympathetic to her plight.More |  | Can I help you, Sir? When Seattle-based customer care specialist Todd Anderson's (Josh Hamilton) smug boss tells him that he is firing his entire department and shipping him off to India to, in effect, train his own replacement, it is done with an almost malicious glee. Little does he know that he has just handed his employee a gift. Whether he is ready for it or not is a different issue.More |  | The Monarch of Madness There have been many movies about treasure hunting, but none quite like this one. First time writer and director Mike Cahill brings us a sweet, quirky comedy about fathers and daughters, Spanish gold and, of course, Costco. Three very disparate things which pull [b]King of California[/b] in three different directions.More |  | Watch out for the WASPs, they Sting The thing about films that open up in the fall is that any performance that demonstrates even the slightest bit of acting ability evokes an Oscar buzz. This is not to say that Diane Lane is sub par in her role as a junkie mother in director Griffin Dunne's [b]Fierce People[/b] but that the entire movie is so bad that it overshadows all traces of talent.More |  | Chick Lit Let me sum up this movie in two words: chick flick. Think [b]Steel Magnolias[/b] and [b]Beaches[/b] but with nothing remotely redeeming. If you're looking for a good date movie or something to see with your mother or friends, this is not the movie to pick. Go eat dinner or have some ice cream or talk about your feelings instead, and expect to see [b]The Jane Austen Book Club[/b], directed by Robin Swicord, running on the "Lifetime" channel shortly.More |
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